Good news. My 2015 Discovery Institute Press book, In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design, has now been released in a Polish translation, along with twenty other ID books, by Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, William Dembski, and others. The publisher, Fundacji En Arche, does a very handsome job. My videos “A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design” and “Why Evolution Is Different,” which also have Polish (and Spanish) subtitles, are based largely on material in this book. 

The final chapter summarizes the book’s themes:

Science has been so successful in explaining natural phenomena that the modern scientist is convinced that it can explain everything, and anything that challenges this assumption is simply ignored. It doesn’t matter that there were no natural causes before Nature came into existence, so he cannot hope to ever explain the sudden creation of time, space, matter and energy and our universe in the big bang. It doesn’t matter that quantum mechanics is based on a “principle of indeterminacy,” that tells us that every “natural” phenomenon has a component that is forever beyond the ability of science to explain or predict. He still insists nothing is beyond the reach of his science. When he discovers that all of the basic constants of physics, such as the speed of light, the charge and mass of the electron, Planck’s constant, etc., had to have almost exactly the values that they do have in order for any conceivable form of life to survive in our universe, he proposes the “anthropic principle” and says that there must be many other universes with the same laws, but random values for the basic constants, and one was bound to get the values right. 

When you ask him how a mechanical process such as natural selection could cause human consciousness to arise out of inanimate matter, he doesn’t understand what the problem is, and he talks about human evolution as if he were an outside observer, and never seems to wonder how he got inside one of the animals he is studying. And when you ask how the four fundamental forces of Nature alone could rearrange the basic particles of Nature into libraries full of encyclopedias, science texts and novels, and computers, connected to laser printers, LCDs and keyboards and the Internet, he says, well, order can increase in an open system.

My book includes chapters on “Entropy and Evolution,” the Big Bang (“In the Beginning”), the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of physics, and a chapter on quantum mechanics, called “The Supernatural Element in Nature.”