Neil Thomas writes another apparently-quite-insane book

[Joe_Felsenstein]

Puck made excuses for buying Neil Thomas’s book from Discovery Institute Press.

I was not blaming Puck for that – he does us all a favor by actually reading the book, and reporting here on it.

Puck also wrote

@Puck_Mendelssohn

And “masochistic” is about right. There is never anything new under the sun in these books, and so a lot of the time these things are just a slog through a swamp. Fortunately, these are not deep thinkers, so the swamp muck is only a few inches deep, but the smell is hard to bear.

I wonder whether Thomas’s book is quite that bad. His arguments against “Darwinism” are pathetic, but he does have a lot of other material about the Victorians being intellectually ready for Darwin’s message. That part struck me as roughly correct (when I heard about it in interviews with him). But it is not as new as he implies. Is that part painful too?