INTELLEGENT DESIGN CREATED OUR UNIVERSE., EVOLUMEN THE PROCESS

We’ve known for years that there was a missing item in the library of books about intelligent design. Well, not only one, but one that has been primarily on our minds. ID is a challenging scientific subject to explain. Not everyone is ready to settle down with a hefty and heady tome of 500 pages or more — especially not if the reader is a teen or young adult. And yet, the purposeful design of life and the cosmos is no less important for such a person to appreciate than for the older reader. It may be more critical. An easily relatable story with charming and inviting artwork seemed the best approach for someone like that. That’s why we’re so delighted to introduce The Farm at the Center of the Universe by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt, with illustrations by Otniel Araujo. It’s the very first novel from the Discovery Institute Press. The subject is the “book of nature,” as one character puts it, whose “pages are all around us.” The novel tells the story of Isaac, whose father died young. Why did he die? How could that be fair? Isaac’s older cousin Charlie — a science teacher — says he knows why. 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 get more than they bargained for. And soon, Isaac finds himself caught in a battle of wits between two men.