It does not give a good reason for the long chain of fossil creatures that appear to lead up to humans. It does not specify WHERE or WHEN the Intelligence inserts information. It too easily writes off the fact that we share DAMAGED and USELESS viral pseudogenes with other primates by supposing they have a yet to be discovered function.
Maybe they are left over and God took an existing genome and altered it to make the next species. Intelligent design of genes AND common descent can BOTH be true. Each species could have been the surrogate mother of the next - passing on designed genes with God altering or adding to them at the fertilized egg stage (zygote). See ZYGOTE THEORY in Wordpress.
http://zygotetheory.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/zygote-theory/
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This book is a good read for the general public and is not intended as a treatise on each and every postulate of evolutionary biology. As for the fossil record, the operative word is appearance. A "lower animal" link to human development is speculative at best. The authors raise a more relevant question concerning the Cambrian explosion.