Icons of Evolution: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Icons of Evolution, subtitled Science or Myth? Why Much of What we Teach about Evolution is Wrong is a controversial book by the Intelligent Design advocate and fellow of the Discovery Institute, Jonathan Wells. In it, Wells contends that school pupils are taught evolution by means of case studies that are flawed. The scientific community has strongly criticised the book and rejected both its findings that schoolchildren are deliberately misled, and the implication that has for evolution, which is the central unifying paradigm of biology.

Background

Wells "dedicated his life to destroying Darwinism". Takes second PhD. Curiously, this is not mentioned in the book.

Wells' ten icons are:

1. Miller-Urey experiment
2. Darwin's tree of life
3. Homology in vertebrate limbs
4. Haeckel's embryos
5. Archaeopteryx
6. peppered moth
7. Darwin's finches
8. four-winged fruit flies
9. fossil horses
10. Hominid evolution

The introduction of the book can be read on the website here. A pdf version of an article written by Wells for a Christian magazine summarising his icons can be found here