Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design

"British academic Neil Thomas was a longtime agnostic and steadfast Darwinist, until an unexpected event. 'I had something of an epiphany in a nightmare that Darwinism could not be true,” he said. “I decided to read around a bit to see if this subconscious flash of insight could be true, and my research (which was diligent) confirmed the theory to be absurd.'
"As Thomas studied Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt compelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: 'Beware! You have been fooled!'
"The result is Taking Leave of Darwin, a wide-ranging history of the evolution debate. Thomas uncovers many opponents of Darwinism that most people know nothing about, ably distills crucial objections raised early and late against Darwinism, and shows that those objections have never been effectively answered. Thomas isn’t religious and is a longtime member of the British Rationalist Association, a group known for religious skepticism. But the available scientific evidence has now convinced him that intelligent design could be the most reasonable explanation for the origin of life’s great diversity of forms."