The Perfect Starting place --> ID Briefing Packet for Educators
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PDF of a Brochure that outlines exactly what the fuss is all about - from the Discovery Institute
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Date: ??/??/2007
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Highly recommended
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Description: This brochure lays out the mission of the Discovery Institute, the leaders in ID. There is an extensive Q&A on ID and evolution. You will discover such things as their advice to the Dover Schools to NOT try to implement their curriculum that got them in court. It also reviews that court decision. Did you know that the judgment had information taken directly from a brief by the ACLU and that the decision actually has information that is false from that brief but was correct in the transcript of the trial? The brochure also outlines the law in regard to the legality of discussing ID in the classroom.
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The Explanatory Filter - The second thing you should read
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A three-part filter for understanding how to separate and identify cause from intelligent design - Dembski
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Date: ??/??/1996
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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You need to read this!
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Description: The ID Explanatory Filter comes under great criticism. In this article, Dembski explains exactly what the filter is and why it is absolutely necessary in law, science and medicine. This is the best explanation I have seen. If you read a criticism somewhere, compare it to this article. The article also gets into why scientists propose an unknowable law of abiogenesis, multiple universes and other ad-hoc just-so stories... it is to try to avoid the explanatory filter. The materialists started building a case against it long before Dembski proposed it because it is obvious in science.
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Detecting Design
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Naturalism and The Theory of Evolution - Sean D. Pitman, M.D.
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Date: 11/xx/2006
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Great site
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Description: Dr. Pitman has written many papers on the impossibility of evolution. Here you will get references to solid secular research that show evolution cannot happen. The research shows that design is the only scientifically acceptable explanation.
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2 Animations of Inside of Cell
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1 - ATPase animation with audio 2- Inner life of a cell with audio explanation - Harvard
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Date: 07/20/2006
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Amazing animations!
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Description: William Paley posited the famous watchmaker analogy of life. If you were walking along and found a watch in a field, you would assume it was designed and made by a watchmaker; it would not come about through natural processes. David Hume said that you cannot compare the two because the inner workings of a cell and the inner workings of a watch are totally different. Hume was wrong. A cell is a factory system of a complexity no human can comprehend. Watch the videos and see short glimpses of why the cell shows more design than a simple watch.
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Information, Science and Biology
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Start learning about information theory - Werner Gitt @ CMI
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Date: ??/??/1996
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Highly recommended basic info
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Description: Gitt is a specialist in information. This article will introduce you to Shannon information. Gitt expands Shannon information to make it a more complete look at information. He proposes several theorems of information. This is a must read in starting to understand the principles behind the theory of intelligent design.
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Inverted Human Eye a Poor Design?
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Is the human eye "poor" design? Read ALL the details here - Jerry Bergman
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Date: 03/??/2000
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Description: Opponents of ID try to give examples of what they consider poor design to try to show that there is no "intelligent" designer. Attempting to evaluate design in living creatures as good or bad makes for poor logic. Even a poor design requires an intelligent designer. The human eye has been posited as an example of poor design, and therefore shows there is no designer. This article shows that the human eye is actually excellent design and that many of the assumptions made by the evolutionists are false assumptions when it comes to the ability of the human eye. This article goes into great detail on the design of the human eye. Some may find the details a bit overwhelming, but everyone can see the gist of the argument. If you have heard the human eye arguments from evolutionists, you need to read this rebuttal.
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Can ID be tested (can evolution)?
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A look at ID - Guy Forsythe, Crying Rocks Ministry
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Date: 05/16/2008
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Description: A general, brief explanation is given of Stephen Myer's Specified Complexity and William Dembski's Explanatory Filter. Together they form the basis of Intelligent Design (ID). They are testable and falsifiable. Also offered is an explanation as to why evolution is NOT testable or falsifiable.
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Guillermo Gonzalez Tenure Case From "Expelled" the movie
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From the blog of William Dembski and others. See links in annotation below.
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Date: 12/03/2007
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Description: The opponents of Expelled the movie like to make up stories. You can read their take on Guillermo Gonzalez, coauthor of The Privileged Planet, here. But, it turns out that some newspapers did some investigating and you can read about the results here. Here is a PDF that gives quotes of who wrote what in emails released under the freedom of information act. Gonzalez appealed his denial of tenure to the Iowa State Board of Regents. They refused to allow the emails to be entered into evidence! Academic freedom does not exist in most universities, just as Expelled explained.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DOVER INTELLIGENT DESIGN TRIAL
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Discovery Institute Staff
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Date: 11/15/2007
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Technical Level: Low 1-2-3-4-5 Hi
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Description: Via a series of links to articles, the Discovery Instate give the ID side of the evaluation of the Dover, PA trial on teaching ID in the classroom. Everything you wanted to know about the trial can be found here via the links, from what legal experts think of the decision to scientists who disagree with the verdict. Also, experts who contend that the controversy should be taught.
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