Ah, yes. Jonathan Wells. As I recall, he pursued his doctorate for the explicitly expressed purpose of fighting against evolution. I mean that he came right out and said as much.
And his "Icons" book displayed that he would take the approach of setting up strawmen just so he could put on a big show of knocking them down. Just like most of the creation science writers.
So, what strawmen does he set up in this book?
"Intelligent Design is based on scientific evidence, not religious belief"? [guffaw!]
Sorry, but that's of the same class as the "creation science" claim that it had nothing to do with the Bible. "Creation science" is the game of "Hide the Bible", whereas ID takes that one step further as the game of "Hide the Creationism".
About the only thing that ID does right is to distance itself from young-earth claims, which are the weakest and most blatantly false (and falsified) part of "creation science."
PS
A propos to ID, even though there's no mention of Wells having contributed, is Glenn Morton's reports on "The Nature of Nature Conference" in Waco, TX, in 2000. His listing of those articles and links thereto are at
No webpage found at provided URL: http://home.entouch.net/dmd/dmd.htm#waco.
The one that really sticks in my mind as Dembski's "critique" of genetic algorithms in which he demonstrated that he doesn't understand what genetic algorithms are not how they work. And several members of the audience who should have been sympathetic to ID (one of them being a long-time YEC writer) informed him of that fact.
Edited by dwise1, : Added postscript in re Morton's reports.