Discovering Intelligent Design
Subtitle: a journey into the scientific evidence
Publisher: Discovery Institute Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781936599080
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Creating a multimedia experience; title: Section 1 : Defining moment.; title: Design decoded : introducing terms important to the debate over intelligent design; title: Survival of the materialist : an introduction to Darwinism and critical thinking; title: Section 2 : Cosmic design.; title: Think big : no, bigger : big bang cosmology and the evidence for a finite universe; title: Don't touch that dial : fine-tuning of the universe and the evidence for cosmic design; title: The empire strikes back : materialist attempts to explain the origin and fine-tuning of the universe; title: Home, sweet home : the fine-tuning of planet Earth and the solar system; title: Section 3 : Complexity of life.; title: Think small : no, smaller : chance chemical processes and the origin of life; title: Information, please : the origin of biological information; title: Opening the black box : irreducible complexity and the biochemical evidence for design; title: Life is complicated : body plans of organisms and their challenge to Darwinism; title: Body of evidence : the engineering design of the human body; title: Poorly designed arguments : how "junk" DNA and other flawed arguments hinder science; title: Section 4 : Common descent.; title: Tree huggers : the failure of the tree of life points to common design; title: Fakes and mistakes : famous frauds and icons which show micro, not macroevolution; title: Sudden, gradual change : abrupt appearance of new organisms in the fossil record; title: Skeletons in their closet : problems with highly publicized alleged transitional forms; title: Who's your daddy? : What fossils, genetics, and the mind say about human origins; title: Section 5 : Summarizing the evidence.; title: Taking inventory : assessing the evidence for intelligent design; title: Section 6 : Academic freedom.; title: Materialism of the gaps : why materialists react harshly to ID, and how they maintain a stronghold in our culture; title: Answering the critics : the positive case for design, responses to objections, and getting involved; title: Recommended resources; title: Appendix A : The scientific value of intelligent design; title: Appendix B : Cosmological calculations; title: Appendix C : Inflation and string theories; title: Appendix D : The "RNA World" hypothesis; title: Appendix E : The Precambrian fossil record; title: Glossary; title: About the authors