You folks may have found it already, but Panda's Thumb is in the midst of posting a series of takedowns of Jonathan Wells' new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Having read the book myself, I was very, very unimpressed by the attack on evolution that Wells offered. But not being an expert on embryology or other biological subfields, I wasn't completely aware of just how weak Wells' arguments actually were in some cases. So check out Panda's Thumb for all the details.
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