Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

At The Dawn of The Twentieth Century, scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science?especially Darwinian biology?would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. But the ideology of scientism has in fact corrupted American politics and culture, as Discovery Institute senior fellow John G. West demonstrates in this extensively researched book. And in a brand-new chapter for this paperback, West reveals how we are now witnessing the rise of "totalitarian science," whose defenders are fighting to remake every sphere of human life, from public policy and education to ethics and religion.