Ben Stein travels on quest to find out what is taking place in the halls of science, and if free discussion is fostered as it ought to be. Instead he finds many fine scientists being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired for merely questioning that perhaps life is not the result of accidental, random chance. Shouldn't we have the freedom to follow the evidence wherever it leads?

The book that helped to launch the modern intelligent design movement. Behe, an accomplished biochemist & professor, explains important ideas such as irreducible complexity. A must read for both sides of the debate. New afterward talks about the importance of the even greater complexity discovered in microbiology in the last 10 years, and it's continuing challenge to Darwinism.

Are genetic & evolutionary algorithms capable of creating the specified complexity that we find in the biological world? This book deals with the nature of information, evolutionary algorithms, complexity of irreducibly complex systems, and more. This is a follow up on The Design Inference book.

Although not written by a supporter of Intelligent Design, it is one of the best works done by a person who sees Darwinism as unsatisfactory and attempts to look for a way out via self-organizing complex systems. However, where did information (specified complexity) come from is still a problem and Kauffman acknowledges it.

The key challenge to Intelligent Design is not its scientific soundness (which is strong), but one-sided and biased political advocacy dressed as science teaching in public schools and presented as scientific journalism such on networks such as PBS. This book addresses the distortions, critical omissions, and misrepresentation of Darwin's critics, in this PBS science documentary.

Earth: an insignificant speck in the vast & meaningless universe or designed not only to support life, but also to give us the best view of the universe? This book deals with: Copernican Principle, precise positioning of the Earth and solar system for life, importance of the rare Earth-Moon system, plus the incredible fine-tuning of the laws and constants that govern the universe.

Dembski answers 44 common question asked by experts & non-experts alike, in a non-expert friendly manner. Examples include: "is this a cleverly disguised form of creationism", "religious motivation", "didn't Hume demolish the design argument", "is it testable", supposed "lack of peer review" publishing (worth the book!), and more.

Similar to the book (above), but with beautiful computer generated animations, interviews with scientists, and more. The Haeckel's embryos discussion in itself is worth the disk!

Mostly, summarizes the key parts from the above videos: Privileged Planet, Icons of Evolution, and Mystery of Life, with few unique sections. The sections on "What Darwin Didn't Know" (the complexity of cell in particular), and on irreducible complexity are particularly helpful.

Dr. Rana (biochemist) and Ross (astrophysicist) provide a highly readable overview of the origins of life research in an evenhanded manner, first showing the various related studies and then comparing the RTB creation model (old-earth creation model) with the evolutionary model of origins of life. Very comprehensive coverage of the topic.

This book is written from a bit different perspective, by a lawyer concerned with the logic and the validity of the premises, inferences, and conclusions as they related to an examination of the evidence. It covers logic, math probabilities in molecular biology, complexity & information generation, precision of values in particle astrophysics, and more.

Unlike some of the typical intelligent design books, this one takes the task of setting up a positive and testable model for creationism (old earth creationism), covering simple sciences (such as cosmology) and the complex sciences (such as biology). The scientific method (really the Biblical method, based on 1 Thes 5:21) put in practice.

In its 3rd expanded edition, Dr. Ross, an astronomer himself, tackles subjects like the Big Bang, cosmic measurements, Einstein's challenge, look at "Brief History of Time" (by Stephen Hawking), Paley's Watchmaker argument and the rebuttals by Hume, Darwin, and Gould, issues of fine-tuning, and many more popular cosmological issues.

Covering the fine-tuning of the universe, its vastness (giving a proportional comparison to aid our understanding), our cosmic neighbors, the period of heavy bombardment, and more, in a visually stimulating, lay person friendly and easy to follow presentation, this video is a great resource.