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A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
November 25, 2024
Intelligent Design}

A faithful catechist in Fr. Martin Hilbert’s parish came to see him. “Father Martin,” she said, “I have been teaching children about Adam and Eve, just as the Catechism tells us. But we can’t be expected to believe that, can we? What is the real story?”

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The God Proofs

_{Douglas Ell
October 28, 2024
Intelligent Design
210
18.95}

Join two friends on an epic journey to tackle the ultimate mystery—does God exist? In this graphic novel, follow our dynamic duo as they explore the wonders of science, challenge each other’s beliefs, and uncover mind-boggling facts about the …

Unnatural Death

_{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024
Intelligent Design
208
17.95}

In this wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide, historian Richard Weikart takes us from the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans to the contemporary scene — where the urge to help people kill themselves has intensified, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? Unnatural Death answers this question by tracing a complex and fascinating history of ideas, attitudes, and legal wranglings stretching from Socrates to Peter Singer and beyond.

The Farm at the Center of the Universe

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
May 21, 2024
Intelligent Design
168}

Why did Isaac’s father have to die so young? Isaac’s older cousin Charlie — a science teacher — says he knows why. Nature is pitiless. There’s no God. No afterlife. Just atoms in the void and the struggle for survival. Charlie says a week at their grandparents’ farm, seeing animals get killed and eaten, will prove it. But at the farm, both of them get more than they bargained for. And soon Isaac finds himself caught in a battle of wits between two men, and facing a choice he alone can …

The Big Bang Revolutionaries

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 23, 2024
Intelligent Design
254
18.95}

Hubble and Einsten are often credited, but the real heroes of the Big Bang revolution are the Russian Alexander Friedmann and Belgian priest Georges Lemaître. The Big Bang Revolutionaries amends the record, telling the remarkable story of how these two men, joined by the mischievous George Gamow and in the face of conventional scientific wisdom, offered a compelling view of a singular creation of the universe in what Lemaître termed a “primeval atom.”

Darwin’s Bluff

_{Robert Shedinger
February 12, 2024
Intelligent Design
284
18.90}

In this fascinating piece of historical detective work, Robert Shedinger draws on Darwin’s letters, private notebooks, and an unfinished manuscript to piece together a puzzle and reveal an embarrassing truth: Darwin never finished his sequel to The Origin of Species because in the end he could not deliver the empirical evidence he promised would validate his theory.

The Design Inference

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 16, 2023
Intelligent Design
583
26.95}

A landmark of the intelligent design movement, The Design Inference revolutionized our understanding of how we detect intelligent causation. Originally published twenty-five years ago, it has now been revised and expanded into a second edition that greatly sharpens its exploration of design inferences.

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Michael Denton

_{Senior Fellow, Centers for Science & Culture and on Human Exceptionalism}

Michael Denton holds an M.D. from Bristol University, as well as a Ph.D. in biochemistry from King’s College in London. A Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Denton has had a critical impact on the debate over Darwinian evolution.

The Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 10, 2022
Intelligent Design}

According to Michael Denton, the cosmos is stunningly fit not just for cellular life, not just for carbon-based animal life, and not even just for air-breathing animals, but especially for bipedal, land-roving, technology-pursuing creatures of our general physiological design.

The Miracle of the Cell

_{Michael Denton
October 1, 2020
Intelligent Design}

The Miracle of the Cell provides compelling evidence that long before life emerged on our planet, the design of the carbon-based cell was foreshadowed in the order of nature, in the exquisite fitness of the laws of nature for this foundational unit of all life on Earth. Nowhere is this fitness more apparent than in the properties of the key atomic constituents of the cell. Each of the atoms of life — including carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, as well as several metal elements — features a suite of unique properties fine-tuned to serve highly specific, indispensable roles in the cell. Moreover, some of these properties are specifically fit for essential roles in the cells of advanced aerobic organisms like ourselves. Author Michael Denton is a Senior Fellow with Discovery …

Children of Light

_{Michael Denton
August 31, 2018
Intelligent Design}

We associate light with the radiant beams that make the world visible to us. But the visible spectrum is only a tiny percentage of an electromagnetic spectrum that extends unimaginably far in both directions. And, as biologist Michael Denton carefully documents, that tiny band of visual light is crucial to life on Earth. In Children of Light, Denton elucidates the miraculous convergence of properties on the tiny band we call the visible spectrum that has allowed intelligent life to flourish on Earth. Follow the journey of light as it beams down from our Sun, through the protective blanket of our atmosphere, to the Earth. Once here, it powers photosynthesis and unlocks the oxygen needed for life. It allows the high-acuity vision that led us to civilization and technology. Light is just one more part of the epic story of our fine-tuned universe, fit for us to flourish here and come to understand it. This book is the third book in the Privileged Species series, which also includes The Wonder of Water and Fire-Maker.

The Wonder of Water

_{Michael Denton
September 11, 2017
Intelligent Design}

About the Book From roaring waterfalls and crashing waves to gentle rain and billowing clouds, water pervades our planet’s majestic biosphere. It is easy to take for granted. But this ever-present substance is amazingly fit in a myriad of ways to sustain life on Earth, especially human life. Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, to regulating the temperature of our planet. In The Wonder of Water, biologist Michael Denton delves deep into this grand, untold story and explores how water is specially equipped to allow life to flourish on our blue planet. Find more information on The Privileged Species book series and companion documentaries at www.PrivilegedSpecies.com. About the Author Michael …

Praise

Clearly written, rigorous, and intellectually compelling. A work of genuine genius.
Stephen C. Meyer on Dembski’s and Ewert’s The Design Inference

Darwin’s Bluff will shock most readers in every chapter.
Tom Woodward on Robert Shedinger’s Darwin’s Bluff

An inspiring overview of the history and physics of our modern view of the universe …
Abraham (Avi) Loeb on Jean-Pierre Luminet’s Big Bang Revolutionaries

This excellent and well-illustrated book convincingly puts into a clear focus the key original contributions of Friedmann and Lemaître.
Roger Penrose on Jean-Pierre Luminet’s Big Bang Revolutionaries

Prepare to be dazzled. This new edition of The Design Inference is a tour de force of thinking and explaining — a veritable feast.
Gale Pooley on Dembski’s and Ewert’s The Design Inference

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