Representatives of majority views in the scientific community have criticized the book and regard it as pseudoscientific, at the extreme of the struggle against evolutionary science. It was criticised for its claims that schoolchildren are deliberately misled, and its conclusions as to the evidential status of the theory of evolution, which is considered by scientists to be the central unifying paradigm of biology. Kevin Padian and Alan D. Gishlick wrote a review in "Quarterly Review of Biology" which said: "In our view, regardless of Wells’s religious or philosophical background, his "Icons of Evolution" can scarcely be considered a work of scholarly integrity."