Don't forget to alert RSR readers to the many errors and misleading intimations in Janice Dodd's review. These errors have been pointed out in a comment on her article, which has since been posted at the same web site.
Yes, we should oppose any attempt to establish fundamentalist religion in the public schools, but we shouldn't accuse people of making religious arguments that they don't make. Behe's a Catholic, not a Bible-thumping fundamentalist, and his arguments, good or bad, are based on biology, not on his own personal religion. Dodd barely engaged Behe on the level of biology, which is her specialty, and tried instead to trash his book by associating it with certain religious views, about which she apparently knows nothing, since she can't even keep straight the difference between Creation Science and Intelligent Design. It's generally a bad strategy to write about what you don't know, when you've been given an opportunity to write about what you do know. And bad strategy produces bad book reviews, like Dr. Dodd's.
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