Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Chapter 1 Introduction, or, Why Testicles Matter 1
Chapter 2 Bad Design-Men's Testicles 3
Chapter 3 What Is Intelligent Design, and What Does It Have to Do With Men's Testicles? 5
Chapter 4 Testicles, Part II 13
Chapter 5 Why Evolution Explains the Human Body Better than Intelligent Design Does 16
Chapter 6 Intelligent Design According to Its Believers: Is Intelligent Design the Same as Creationism, and Is Intelligent Design Religion? 17
Chapter 7 The Infamous Wedge Strategy 29
Chapter 8 Why Denying Evolution Can Get You into Trouble and Cause Mass Hunger, Too 33
Chapter 9 What Science Is 36
Chapter 10 Why Accepting Science and Evolution Can Lead to Better Values for All Humankind 42
Chapter 11 Bad Design-the Birth Canal 45
Chapter 12 The Handy-Dandy Intelligent Design Refuter, Part 1 53
Chapter 13 Intelligent Design Requires a Leap of Faith 63
Chapter 14 Animals That Shouldn't Exist According to Intelligent Design 65
Chapter 15 Bad Design-the Human Throat 71
Chapter 16 The Handy-Dandy Intelligent Design Refuter, Part 2 74
Chapter 17 Irreducible Complexity, the Design Inference, and Geological Formations 81
Chapter 18 Irreducible Complexity and Blood Clotting 91
Chapter 19 Bad Design-the Human Blood Clotting System: It Led to the Communist Russian Revolution 97
Chapter 20 Irreducible Complexity, Flagella, and Cilia 100
Chapter 21 Irreducible Complexity and the Human Eye 103
Chapter 22 Bad Design-the Human Eye 111
Chapter 23 Why Denying Science is Bad for You, and Bad for Your Neighbors, Too 116
Chapter 24 Why Kewara in Heaven Makes No Difference to Human behavior, but Good Institutions Do 121
Chapter 25 Bad Design-Our Biochemical Pathways: If Cats Don't Die of Scurvy, Then Why Do We? 126
Chapter 26 Why Does Intelligent Design Act So Much Like the Tobacco Lobby? 136
Chapter 27 Bad Design-Our Teeth, or, Why Is This Animal Smiling? 144
Chapter 28 The Discovery Institute Hasn't Discovered Anything (Sort of Like the Tobacco Institute) 151
Chapter 29 The Publishing Scandal that Rocked the Discovery Institute 157
Chapter 30 Bad Design-Sharks Get More Reproductive Options, Too 162
Chapter 31 Exploding the Cambrian Explosion 164
Chapter 32 Why William Dembski's "Information Theory" Isn't Very Informative 167
Chapter 33 Bad Design-the Human Genome 171
Chapter 34 Bad Design-the Human Appendix 177
Chapter 35 Evolution: The Greatest Indisputably True Story Ever Told 182
Appendix 1 The Phylogeny of Mammalian Testicles 187
Appendix 2 The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Statement on Intelligent Design 190
Appendix 3 The Life Cycle of the Immortal Jellyfish 192
Appendix 4 Credits and Notes for Illustrations and Photographs 194
Index 217