The Evolution-Creation Struggle
• Miseducation
Michael Ruse author of The Evolution-Creation Struggle thinks it is evolutionary theorists uncompromising clarity that motivates the creationists. Hardly. If Richard Dawkins were to soften his sentences the creationists wouldn't pause for a second.
Ruse, a self-identified agnostic, acknowledges the ''thrilling quality'' of Dawkins's writing but says he objects to adamantly anti-religion statements coming from a scientist. ''I don't have any more belief than Dawkins,'' he says. ''But I do think it matters that he is making it very difficult for those of us who care about evolution to put forward a reasonable face to the reasonable portion [of the public] in the middle.''