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An edition of Discovering Intelligent Design (2013)

Discovering Intelligent Design

a journey into the scientific evidence

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Discovering Intelligent Design (DID) is the first full curriculum to present the scientific evidence for intelligent design in both cosmology and biology in an easy-to-understand format. The curriculum includes a textbook, a workbook, and a DVD with multimedia video clips that are integrated into the readings. Developed by home school educators Gary and Hallie Kemper, and Discovery Institute Research Coordinator Casey Luskin, Discovering ID uniquely fills a specific niche in the intelligent design literature. Who can use DID? In a word (or two), most anyone. While best classified as a textbook, DID reads like a book and is intended for a wide range of ages -- from middle-schoolers to adult -- in settings such as private schools, a general family and home setting, homeschool, church environments, small discussion groups, extracurricular school organizations (such as IDEA Clubs), or personal use. When used as a textbook, DID is not intended to replace standard subject science texts, but instead can supplement them by presenting information not available in many standard textbooks. While DID is strictly scientific in its content, it is not recommended for use in public schools. DID was written to fill a specific niche. There are other excellent textbooks about intelligent design, such as The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems, which provides a compelling and thorough presentation of the scientific evidence. However, those texts are written at an advanced level and do not comprehensively cover both the biological and cosmological evidence for design. Another superb textbook is Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism; however that supplemental textbook focuses only on biology and evolution, and does not cover cosmology or intelligent design. Finally, there are numerous other high quality books available on intelligent design -- but they are either not written as a study tool, or include religious components. Discovering ID stands out as the only strictly scientific textbook that comprehensively introduces both the cosmological and biological evidence for intelligent design at a layperson's level. - Publisher.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Creating a multimedia experience
Section 1 : Defining moment.
Design decoded : introducing terms important to the debate over intelligent design
Survival of the materialist : an introduction to Darwinism and critical thinking
Section 2 : Cosmic design.
Think big : no, bigger : big bang cosmology and the evidence for a finite universe
Don't touch that dial : fine-tuning of the universe and the evidence for cosmic design
The empire strikes back : materialist attempts to explain the origin and fine-tuning of the universe
Home, sweet home : the fine-tuning of planet Earth and the solar system
Section 3 : Complexity of life.
Think small : no, smaller : chance chemical processes and the origin of life
Information, please : the origin of biological information
Opening the black box : irreducible complexity and the biochemical evidence for design
Life is complicated : body plans of organisms and their challenge to Darwinism
Body of evidence : the engineering design of the human body
Poorly designed arguments : how "junk" DNA and other flawed arguments hinder science
Section 4 : Common descent.
Tree huggers : the failure of the tree of life points to common design
Fakes and mistakes : famous frauds and icons which show micro, not macroevolution
Sudden, gradual change : abrupt appearance of new organisms in the fossil record
Skeletons in their closet : problems with highly publicized alleged transitional forms
Who's your daddy? : What fossils, genetics, and the mind say about human origins
Section 5 : Summarizing the evidence.
Taking inventory : assessing the evidence for intelligent design
Section 6 : Academic freedom.
Materialism of the gaps : why materialists react harshly to ID, and how they maintain a stronghold in our culture
Answering the critics : the positive case for design, responses to objections, and getting involved
Recommended resources
Appendix A : The scientific value of intelligent design
Appendix B : Cosmological calculations
Appendix C : Inflation and string theories
Appendix D : The "RNA World" hypothesis
Appendix E : The Precambrian fossil record
Glossary
About the authors

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1936599082
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