Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for
Intelligent Design
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer
Published 2013: 571 pages
When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he
had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many
facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life
that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian
explosion,” 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 because scientists have
learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last
half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of
biological information—stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells—to building
animal forms.
Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his
last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this
information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are
best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected
evolutionary processes.
Reviews from Amazon:
“Darwin’s Doubt is by far the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive review of the evidence from all relevant scientific fields that I have encountered in more than forty years of studying the Cambrian explosion.” -- Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lonnig, senior scientist emeritus (biologist) at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
“The issue on the table is the mechanism of evolution―is it blind and undirected or is it under the control of an intelligence with a goal in mind? In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer has masterfully laid out one of the most compelling lines of evidence for the latter.” -- Dr. William S. Harris, Professor, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota