Abstract
The study of communications today is quite a sophisticated undertaking. The classic discipline of "rhetoric" has been supplemented by the diverse insights of discourse analysis, postmodern critiques, sociological perspectives, and constructionism. This groundbreaking study was originally part of a Ph.D. thesis in communication at a British university. Its author now holds a post at Kingston University in England. Creationism is the focus of the analysis, as exemplified by the pamphlets and other materials of the British Creation Science Movement (formerly the Evolution Protest Movement). The author’s intent, however, lies much deeper. He engages in a detailed empirical analysis of the discourse of creation scientists in order to focus on public understanding of science and the "representation in sociological theory of the role and position of science in relation to modern society and culture."