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In addition to claiming that intelligent design is science, ID proponents state that there are many weaknesses in the theory of evolution. The supplementary textbook Of Pandas and People figured prominently in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial and makes a number of claims against the evidence for evolution.
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Reading
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Kevin Padian, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was called as an expert witness to evaluate the claims made in Of Pandas and People. Read the following brief summary of his testimony on the following topics: the Cambrian explosion, fish to amphibian transition, and the origin of birds.
Kevin Padian on Of Pandas and People: A Summary of the Testimony in Kitzmiller v. Dover
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Notebook
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Choose one argument against evolution as presented in Of Pandas and People and summarize Kevin Padian's expert testimony on this topic. You may wish to use the following resources as additional reference:
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Video
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Kevin Padian provides an elegant summary of the evolutionary transition from fish-like organisms to animals with four limbs that walked on land (tetrapods). Not available to Padian at the time of the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial was the discovery of Tiktaalik, a fossil of a fish-like ancestor of tetrapods. Watch this video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day" about the discovery of Tiktaalik and the transitional fossils that help fill the gap in the fossil record.
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