Darwin's Doubt
by Stephen C. Meyer · first published 2013
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Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life -- a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but also because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal
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…and we have never seen life come from non life. The theory has been essentially banished from academia for political, not scientific, reasons, but Michael Behe and Stephen Meyer’s books, specifically Darwin’s Doubt and Signature of the Cell, lay out the case in detail.
on “Scientists create simple synthetic cell” ↗Anyone with an open mind should read Darwin's Doubt by Stephen Meyer. He looks at possible explanations for the Cambrian Explosion and concludes that Intelligent Design is the best explanation. Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne has written a response…
on “The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA” ↗Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. As a teenager it gave me an intellectual basis for my faith and helped me see it could be defensible. Darwin's Doubt by Stephen Meyer. If God exists methodological naturalism can't be completely true. This book helped me see that there's still areas science can't fully explain, like the information explosion of the…
on “Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?” ↗"Darwin on Trial" by Phillip Johnson is an eye-opening and surprising read. I recommend it. You can also read "Signature in the Cell" and "Darwin's Doubt" by Meyer. The argument is the "argument from design" -- just like you would be able to recognize the existence of a paper-airplane-designer if you noticed a piece of paper folded into the shape of a…
on “We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever” ↗Well, you could start by reading these books: 1. Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson 2. The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check by Tan & Stadler 3. Darwin's Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer
…I am concerned, Meyer is undefeated in any public conversation that I have seen him engage in and I have never read a convincing rebuttal to the arguments he makes in his books (Signature in the Cell, Darwin's Doubt, and The Return of the God Hypothesis). I find Meyer to be a far more credible and far more serious intellectual force than the various academics and intellectuals that are associated with the other…
on “The Forgotten Piece of Evolutionary Theory” ↗…"expressed skepticism about the reality" of anthropogenic climate change,"[31][32] rejecting the overwhelming scientific consensus in the field.[33] In July 2019, in a review of Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, which Gelernter wrote for the Claremont Review of Books, he also rejected the scientific consensus of evolutionary biology.[34]…
on “Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81” ↗Exactly, these are major themes in the books I posted. Darwin’s Doubt deals specifically with the Cambrian Explosion and the explosion of information over a short time span that it represented. It digs deep into the search space of protein folds and epigenetic information…
on “Scientists create simple synthetic cell” ↗