Darwin's Doubt

Where are the evolutionists and atheists now?

Get over it already. Why the hell is this book outside of the fiction category?

All books that challenge the sacred cow of scientific naturalism inevitably receive the harshest of criticisms by reviewers who often haven’t even read the book they are reviewing, let alone fairly or objectively considered its arguments, and this book is no exception. The 1 Star reviewers here only display their own close mindedness and ignorance of the actual claims made by Neo-Darwinian evolution, the actual paucity of hard evidence for it, and the inability for blind, natural forces that inherently lack any ability to plan ahead to create specified complexity in anything at all, let alone in highly complex living systems. The level of indoctrination displayed here by many of these reviewers is sadly the norm in today’s culture. People who have the ability to be truly self-critical, to both recognize and challenge their own assumptions, will indeed give this book a fair and honest evaluation. But those who have bought into the lies of scientism, philosophical naturalism, and empiricism as the only valid epistemology all have self-imposed blinders on that hinder their ability to think critically and rationally. And thus fail to recognize the self-defeating and/or circular nature of their own biases and assumptions. Scientism is self-defeating. Arguments against ID based on naturalism are circular and therefore invalid reasoning. And those who object to this book by immediately assuming a religious motivation is behind it are blinding themselves to their own metaphysical biases underlying their own objections and their refusal to consider all possible explanations for life’s origin and diversification. The book never assumes the Christian God did this (as one reviewer wrote). Who the designer is doesn’t at all affect the ability to infer intelligence was involved. The bottom line truth is the forces of chemistry, physics, and the like are unable to plan ahead. By nature they can only act on what already exists at that specific moment in time. Any organism or body plan or truly novel function that requires multiple, predetermined and time-phased steps to eventually bring that novel form into existence can never explain the origin of life, or the rapid development of wholly novel biological information. Only intelligence is able to select a desired end state, compare against the current state, identify the time-phased and sequenced steps required to transition from the current to the future state, and then implement those predetermined steps. Random Mutation acted on by Natural Selection is incapable of planning ahead, and can only act on what currently exists. It cannot predetermine which mutations will or can arise. It cannot influence the origin of anything, only act to preserve something beneficial once it has already arisen. And therefore it cannot generate wholly new, novel forms, body plans, or anything else that requires information not already present in the organism that it can repurpose. And so the Cambrian Explosion is really an information explosion where previously non-existent information appears in the fossil record without any prior existence. It is hard evidence against the idea that all of life is the result of random reshuffling and undirected changes made to already existing information that is merely preserved when beneficial for survival, as the modern synthesis theory requires. New information was clearly inserted, and the mechanisms proposed to explain the origin of this information have failed to provide more than just-so stories to account for it.

well apparantly the Royal Society in London agrees with the conclusion I got from reading this book… Darwinism isn’t only in trouble but its officially done… instead of removing Darwinism from textbooks, it’ll be left till a suitable alternative can be found… what is this world come to? I think I would suggest this book as a suitable substitute …

While I totally disagree with the conclusions in this book, at least I can say the man did his homework. The data is real data and their are some legitimate critiques here. Logic is flawed (science is not based on logic alone, it requires conclusions that can be tested) in the end, but I will doff my hat to a real attempt to use argument and data.

Having spent most of my career in the field of science, I have lived by the mantra "seek the truth - whatever it may be". In our current world of sound bites, headlines and Facebook, people seem little interested in this approach to answering life's (and science's) most baffling questions. It is far more likely that, if you pay close attention, you will see scholars, scientists, researchers, reporters, and personage from every intellectual endeavor (supposedly in search of truth, or at least claiming to be unbiased), only seeking to find a way to prove themselves correct in their own hypotheses, no matter how ridiculous. Sadly, the pursuit of truth with an open mind is viewed as a fanciful notion of outdated, irrelevant and ignorant dreamers. Even the most intelligent conversations I have had regarding things such as the fossil records, Cambrian Explosion, or the Origin of Life, etc., have ended with the same (poor-at-best) arguments. This book has logically, and convincingly provided research, theory, and discussion regarding very difficult and "touchy" issues. For anyone reading this book with an agenda, you will either feel "happily proved right", or "disgusted by such drivel". For those who read it with an open mind, those seeking insight or perhaps a new way of looking at some of the very complex and unsatisfying explanations offered by the current intelligencia of our post-modern culture...you may find when you reach the bibliography, you have new ideas and thoughts to ponder, and possibly, you may have found some Truth. This book was thought-provoking, and offers plausible answers, especially when compared to the highly unplausible Darwinian Theory.

This book is heavily researched and gives due attention to counterarguments. From what I can tell from the one star reviews, they have only read the blurb. None give any evidence of knowing what is in the book.

Why is this book in the science section? Just crap.

It is obvious that many who read this book will dismiss it out of hand simply because of the conclusions that it brings us to. But isn't this what science is all about? We follow logical conclusions of to evidence as it is presented without bias or prejudice. Those who attempt to discredit Dr. Meyer are simply being disingenuous as to their motives. Dr. Meyers research and analysis are spot on.

Darwin had doubts and so should you.

Meyer provides indisputable evidence that the mutation theory exposed by many Darwinists is scientifically impossible. Many darwinists have also come to this conclusion based on this evidence, like Francis Crick discoverer of genetic code, and have proposed other alternatives such as space aliens, to avoid agreeing with so called “creationists”. Mayer bases his book on science not religion but it is clear that life was designed.

This is an excellent presentation on the evolution of Darwin's hypothesis. The emphasis is on the Cambrian fossil record whose existence Darwin was aware of but coul not explain in a manner consistent with his hypothesis . He felt later discoveries woul provide answers but alas, they have only compounded the problems for macro biological evolutionists, materialists advancing the idea of common ancestry for all life and a diversity due to slow gradual change by mutation directed by natural selection. Meyer examines the hypothesis and experimentation of scientists since Darwin who have tried to butress his position and modifying it where necessary in the first 16 chapters . In each case Meyer reveals the weaknesses in which the evidence for doing so is ,interestingly , provided by the evolutionists themselves . One mystery that Meyer brought to the fore in his previous book "Signature In The Cell" has been alluded to several times in this book. For the materialists it is an insurmountable obstacle for it pertains to an abstract entity , "Where did the information come from ?" The last few chapters discusses "intelligent design" , it's reasonableness and it's future .Meyer explains the use of the abuctive method of logic by historical scientists and explains why intelligent design provides the best possible conclusion for the available evidence. In recent discussions I have read , evolutionists infer that the consensus within the scientific community is uniform an that it speaks as with one voice . This is contrary to the facts as illustrated by the various avenues of research conucted since Darwin's time as revealed in this book. Meyer's quotes of recent remarks by scientists indicate a theory ,indeed a worldview , in crisis an a possible institutional implosion in the near future . I am thankful for all the effort the evolutionary scientists have expended to prove the unproven and I think the apparent unproveable hypothesis . Darwin's Doubt is a shot across the bow of an entrenched philosophy embracing counter intuitive a priori commitments to materialistic methodism . It is the herald of a paradigm shift .

I have read Dr Meyer's "Signature in the Cell" and loved what he brought out concerning what science is showing us about the world around us. So much has changed from Darwin's day that it's near impossible to believe he would still hold to his original theory if he knew what modern science is discovering. Darwin's Doubt is a brilliant example of why Darwin would have to second guess his own ideas. Darwin already recognized the problem that Meyer brings out in this book but he simply assumed that the problem would go away in the future as more fossils were found......he assumed incorrectly. If anything the problem is exacerbated by the new discoveries in microbiology and paleontology. Growing up did you ever notice that throughout every grade they only talked about what they thought the strengths of Darwinian evolution were but they never talked about the weaknesses of Darwinian evolution? Makes you wonder if the school system is really interested in educating children as opposed to indoctrinating them. This book finally gives you 'the other side' of the argument. Meyer carefully dissects the Pre Cambrian to Cambrian problems that still have yet to be resolved and, with all of the fossils we've found in the past 100+ years, it appears the problem will never be resolved. Meyer takes apart all of the naturalistic arguments piece by piece and actually comes away with a known mechanism that can explain what we see in the world around us. This is a refreshing change from the tiresome 'Nature of the Gaps' argument constantly presented by the materialists. Instead of filling the gaps with 'nature-did-it' Meyer actually presents a very solid case to explain this Cambrian conundrum. A must read for those that prefer science based on the most modern finds science has to offer as opposed to the outdated textbooks and aged 'nature-did-it' gap fill arguments.

Just had to give my thoughts on the review about a building on a road below. How did the building get there? Many smaller building slowly evolved over millions of years to become the bigger building? The building was created by someone. Your point seems to make the argument for intelligent design. Why are atheists so passionate? They are scared to death that a higher power will set rules for their lives. Ignore the negative reviews by those who haven't cracked the book. The arguments are logical and sound.

It is logically consistent it has empirical adequacy and uses experiential relevance. Science follows the evidence given through experiments. Not the advice of philosophy.

Read the book and read the scientific literature for yourself. Dr Meyer is correct in the data he presents, but many will not like his conclusions. As someone who works in the scientific community I know that Dr Meyer is not exaggerating the Cambrian explosion. This continues to be a severe challenge to naturalism (and shows no signs of going away). Darwin was honest in his critique of his own theory, but unfortunately this character is rarely demonstrated in his "disciples".

If a book in any other field was so horribly researched, used such e in logic, and was so clearly driven by ideology and not honest intellectual pursuit, it would be unprintable. Imagine a book on baseball that argued blacks only began to play ball after they miraculously appeared in America in the mid 20th century, not because of institutionalized racial discrimination. This is the level of blindness to evidence, quote mining, blatant lying to be found in this book. It's nonsense parading as science.

There is no justifiable means to make such a claim as the Cambrian Explosion is best explained through "intelligent design". In essence, this author is saying something like this: "There is a road in a town I've never been to. I have photographic evidence that there is an old building on this road. Unfortunately, the builder didn't leave a detailed of how and when and why this building was constructed. Therefore, an all powerful being who is also Christian surely did it." It's ludicrous to make such a massive leap in logic, but that is the argument this author presents. Spend no real time here. You can read it, as one should never rely fully on the opinions of others, but I genuinely hope you all come to the same, one conclusion I do. This is an unforgivable debasement of modern human intellect and we all clearly have a long way to go in order to eradicate simple thinking and theology.