Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

From Library Journal Behe (biochemistry, Lehigh) argues that the biochemical basis of complex life could not have developed through gradual evolutionary change because too many dependent variables would have had to have been altered simultaneously. Through explanations of the functions of the eye, blood clotting, and the immune system, he sets out to argue against evolution as a sole explanation for their existence. Behe doesn't call on religion to support his thesis. Rather, he explores the scientific literature for some of the alternatives to evolution and includes his own support for life by design at the end of the text. The importance of this controversial work is in the questions it raises about the primacy of evolution as the sole creator of life. Recommended for all libraries concerned with evolution.Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ., Chicago

Darwin on Trial

Annotation
In clear, concise chapters, Johnson offers a casual, reasoned and scientifically sound evaluation of the support for Darwinism--from fossil records to molecular biology. In a new afterword, he responds to his critics and their arguments. "Unquestionably the best critique of Darwinism I have ever read."--Michael Denton, author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.

Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us about God

From the Publisher
Recent scientific discoveries have raised questions that science can't answer. In this book, author Fred Heeren tells why even Einstein had to revise his thinking to bring it in line with the Bible's claims. Through Heeren's interviews with Steven Hawking and Nobel prize-winning physicists, you'll learn why many leading cosmologists today are bringing God into the equation.

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?

From the Publisher
In this shocking book, Berkeley-educated doctor of biology Jonathan Wells lets you in on scientific discoveries you won't learn about from college and high school textbooks--and reveals a dirty little secret known only to some of his fellow biologists.
The best-known "icons" of evolution--from pictures of apes evolving into humans, to comparisons of fish and human embryos, to moths on tree trunks--are false or misleading. For decades, biology students have been taught things about evolution that are simply untrue.
These icons of evolution appear even in the most recent textbooks, although the scientific literature is full of evidence that they are false. Apparently, dogmatic promoters of Darwinian evolution fear that without these icons public faith in their claims will disappear, so they knowingly misinform our children and suppress scientific evidence.
Icons of Evolution is both an eye-opening tour of discoveries in contemporary biology and a stirring call for professional and educational honesty. It reveals that Darwinian evolution is a theory in crisis that distorts the truth to maintain its influence over science education. And it is a policeman's whistle, calling upon scientists to clean house and rid their textbooks of lies.
Icons of Evolution is also essential reading for taxpayers who want to know how their hard-earned money is being used to indoctrinate children in a myth.

Intelligent Design

From the Critics at Publisher's Weekly
Until recently, the argument for design--that nature (especially living organisms) shows the hand of an intelligent artificer--was generally viewed as an abandoned relic of the pre-Darwinian past. Dembski and his colleagues at the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture have worked over the past decade to rehabilitate the concept of "intelligent design" not only as a plank of natural theology but as a theoretical resource within science. This collection of essays represents Dembski's efforts to remedy the conceptual fuzziness and lack of empirical content that plagued older versions of the design argument. Dembski recasts design as a problem in information theory, of empirically detecting the "complex specified information" that we attribute to intelligent causes. Although design inferences in biology or cosmology are obviously controversial, Dembski aims to normalize them by comparison to similar inferences routinely made in cryptography, forensic science and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)--the latter being an especially effective counterexample to the claim that detecting unknown intelligences is impermissible as a scientific project. The book also presents more theologically oriented essays, including an especially astute analysis of the demise of British natural theology and an evocative (if unsympathetic) description of what Dembski sees as the "religious" character of scientific naturalism. Other material interspersed throughout the collection is less clearly related to intelligent design but gives a sense of Dembski's overall theological perspective. Readers who are principally interested in intelligent design itself, or who do not share the authors' theological interests, may find this distracting. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design

From the Publisher
A Movement has Emerged among scholars exploring the possibility of intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark Darwin's Black Box, at the cellular level there appears to be a high level of irreducible complexity that suggests design. In this book Behe is joined by eighteen other expert academics trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, physical anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology, ecology and evolutionary biology to investigate the prospects for this emerging school of thought. Challenging the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical grounds, these scholars press the case for a radical rethinking of established evolutionary assumptions.

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

From Steven Rose - New Statesman - negative review
{The book} is a series of random chapters lumping together almost any andevery criticism of neo-Darwinism from the 'gaps in the fossil record' . . . through to the arguments by astronomer Fred Hoyle that the odds against human life are so great that evolution alone cannot account for it. This assemblage of ill-assorted and often mutually contradictory argument is not helped by persistent inaccuracies; names are mis-spelt, positions travestied and basic biological data mis-stated. More serious is a fundamental obfuscation of purpose;Denton's interest is clearly to strengthen the hand of those who, for whatever ideological purpose, resort to the repeated argument that 'even many scientists' disagree with evolutionary theory. By never making his own position clear he does his readers a disservice.
From Tom Bethell - National Review - positive review
Contrary to the general belief, there is very little factual support for the theory of evolution. In 1981 Colin Patterson, a senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, remarked at a public lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York that there was 'not one thing' he knew about evolution. . . . {This title} is the best summary of the case against evolution since Norman Macbeth's minor classic Darwin Retired {BRD 1972}. Denton includes a good chapter on the cladists, a recent school of taxonomistswith which Patterson is associated. . . . This is a scientific work, and a highly readable one, not an essay in Biblical fundamentalism.

Defeating Darwinsim by Opening Minds

From the Critics From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
By profaning the scientific establishment's most sacred cows, U.C.-Berkeley law professor Johnson has earned critical acclaim and brisk sales. Now, the witty iconoclast who questioned the scientific evidence for Darwinian evolution in his Darwin on Trial (1991) provides a short, simple manual to help students, parents, teachers and pastors debate evolution, "a subject," Johnson says, "that has for too long been protected from critical thinking by law and academic custom." Included in the book are tips for using what Carl Sagan once called a "baloney detector kit" to verify the evidence used by opponents in an argument, as well as tips for detecting ad hominem and straw man arguments. Johnson's greatest contribution, however, is that he helps non-scientists distinguish between scientific fact, like microevolution within species, and unproved scientific theories, like macroevolution, which claims that molecules became men. He is also adept at exposing philosophical bias behind ostensibly "objective" scientific arguments. With measured prose and systematic thinking, Johnson uses his legal expertise to demonstrate the ways in which arguments about evolutionary theory may be conducted.

Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins

Outstanding bio text on Intelligent Design This thin bio text is written at a level that anyone can read like a novel. It clearly gives the scientific evidence for Intelligent Design and discusses some of the problems in evolution. Not some ranting young-earth book, but written from the reality of the old-earth perspective. A must for all interested in this subject.

The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer

Part. I Creation, Design & Philosophy of Science 39
1 Theistic Science & Methodological Naturalism 41
2 The Methodological Equivalence of Design & Descent 67
3 On the Very Possibility of Intelligent Design 113
Part. II Creation, Design & Scientific Evidence 139
4 Astronomical Evidences for a Personal, Transcendent God 141
5 Information & the Origin of Life 173
6 The Origin of Life's Major Groups 211
7 Origin of the Human Language Capacity: In Whose Image? 235
Appendix: Rational Inquiry & the Force of Scientific Data: Are New Horizons Emerging? 270

The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism

From the Publisher Science is the supreme authority in our culture. If there is a dispute, science arbitrates it. If a law is to be passed, science must ratify it. If truth is to be taught, science must approve it. And when science is ignored, storms of protest are heard in the media, in the university—even in local coffee shops.
While we may learn a great deal from science, it does not offer us unlimited knowledge. In fact, most scientists readily acknowledge that science cannot provide answers to questions of ultimate purpose or meaning. So to what authority will we turn for these?
The deficiencies in science and the philosophy (naturalism) that undergirds it call for a cognitive revolution—a fundamental change in our thinking habits. And it all begins with a wedge of truth.
This wedge of truth does not "wedge out" a necessary foundation of rational thought. But it does "wedge in" the much-needed acknowledgment that reason encompasses more than mere scientific investigation. Johnson argues compellingly for an understanding of reason that brings scientific certainty back into relational balance with philosophical inquiry and religious faith.
Applying his wedge of truth, Johnson analyzes the latest debates between science and religion played out in our media, our universities and society-at-large. He looks to thinkers such as Newbigin, Polanyi and Pascal to lay a foundation for our seeing the universe in a totally different way. And from that base he then considers the educational programs and research agendas that should be undertaken;and have already begun in some earnest—during this new century.

Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture

Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Part. 1
Nine Essays About Darwinists & Darwinism
1 The Pope of the New Religion 15
2 What Is Darwinism? 19
3 Domesticating Darwin 34
4 Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? 40
5 The Storyteller & the Scientist 48
6 Daniel Dennett's Dangerous Idea 57
7 The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism 67
8 The Gorbachev of Darwinism 77
9 A Metaphysics Lesson 85
Part. 2
Essays on Books, Culture & Law
10 Engaging the Third Culture 101
11 The Law & Politics of Religious Freedom: A Revolution in the Making 108
12 How the Universities Were Lost 114
13 Wundergadfly 121
14 Gideon's Uncertain Trumpet 127
15 Left Behind 144
16 Pomo Science 150
17 Harter's Precept 156
18 The Circus of Death 161
19 Genius & Plod 167
20 Facing Orthodoxy 173
21 The Law Written on the Heart 179
22 Making Law Sane 184

Not by Chance - Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution

From the Publisher: Dr. Spetner has an extraordinary ability to present complex issues in a comprehensible manner. -Rabbi Joseph Elias, The Jewish Observer It is certainly the most rational attack on evolution that I have ever read. -Professor E. Simon, Dept. of Biology, Purdue University Biologists and geneticists across the country praise this work as one of the most serious challenges to the modern theory of evolution. The author presents compelling scientific evidence that life on Earth could not have arisen by chance. Dr. Spetner examines information and randomness in evolution in a way that seriously challenges the modern theory of evolution. Dr. Spetner's Not By Chance shows that: (1) The randomness of mutations-essential to modern evolution theories-cannot account for a buildup of information through evolution. (2) The favorite examples given as evidence for evolution, such as the evolution of antibiotic resistance of bacteria and the evolution of quantitative traits by applied geneticists, actually argue against randomness building up information. The mutations of their examples actually lose information. There is no known example of a random mutation that adds information to the genome. (3) The book offers a theory to replace modern evolution theory that postulates nonrandom mutations triggered by the environment. A great deal of evidence is cited for this new theory, which can account for large adaptive changes occurring in short spans of time. This book was originally printed in Israel. This is the first American edition.

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Synopsis: In an effort to reconcile the naggingly incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and general relativity, Brian Greene explores and explains superstring theory, which holds the promise of applying to all matter in all conditions. Comments: This is not a Creationist text. It is, however, very fascinating information.

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

Prayer Experiment

Job, Vol. 16

INTRODUCTION TO JOB

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