Abstract
Summarizing Intelligent Design (ID) is a fairly daunting task. ID was launched as a movement in large part by Philip Johnson's landmark bestseller Darwin on Trial. Since its publication in 1991, ID literature has been proliferating exponentially. The literature critical of ID was slow to get going, but it is now extensive as well. Jonathan Wells' ambitious goal in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design is to summarize the entire controversy in one reader-friendly, popular level guide (the Politically Incorrect Guides series is modelled after the hugely popular Dummy's Guide series). Wells' large-scale organization isn't as tight as Darwin on Trial, where the arguments were so structured that you knew when you finished one chapter what the next chapter was going to be about. But what Wells lacks in structure is made up for by the up-to-date and readable coverage he gives to the subject.