Benjamin Wiker (born 1960) is a Roman Catholic ethicist and professor of political science and Human Life studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
[2] Wiker became a member of the Discovery Institute, a think tank supporting this idea and intelligent design, soon after the publication of the book.
His next book, Architects of the Culture of Death, co-written with veteran Catholic ethicist Donald DeMarco, looks at how the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from Schopenhauer to Peter Singer have undermined the Christian value of "sanctity of life".
[4] John M. Lynch in a review for The Darwin Myth in the Journal of the History of Biology has dismissed Wiker's claims as irrational.
[5] In a review, Sander Gliboff, a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, has written Wiker's biographical interpretations of Darwin "verge on fantasy".