A new book is coming out from William Dembski and Jonathan Wells called The Design of Life. It's supposed to provide a good overview of intelligent design to general audiences. It's available to pre-order for a price a bit below Amazon here.

The Ledger, a Florida paper, reports on the Polk County school board. The board is debating whether they support new science standards that would specifically include the teaching of "evolution," instead of the current teaching of "biological change over time." Four out of seven of the board members say they'd support teaching ID alongside evolution. More coverage from The Ledger here, here, and here.

Some friends sent me a couple interesting links this week: One is of an AP story about a fossilized 8-foot-long "bug," that is, a sea scorpion, found in Germany. (Well, a least a claw was found--the rest of the creature's size is inferred. Some think high oxygen concentrations once caused bugs to grow to their enormous sizes.) The second link is to a page from the Northwest Creation Network about global flood theories the world over. In case you aren't aware, it's well known that nearly every culture in the world has a flood theory that varies on the biblical account. The implication is that all originated from a true historical event, as I believe.

Lastly, although I'm not sure when it was first published, here's some good stuff from Duane Gish highlighting the severe problems facing an evolutionary origin of life.