The beginning of May was quite interesting as audiences of scientists, scholars, and students in very different parts of the world examined the evidence for ID.
There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1.
The very first book I read on Darwinian evolution was an 1888 work, Evolution, by Joseph LeConte, professor of geology and natural history at the University of California.