Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer

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Darwin's Doubt

  • The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
  • By: Stephen C. Meyer
  • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
  • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
  • Categories: Science & Engineering

Publisher's Summary

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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2013 Stephen C. Meyer (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

Customer Reviews

1-5 of 2 reviews

  • Fr. Abram Abdelmalek

    brilliant

    Intelligent Design is well presented as a competitive scientific theory with more compelling evidence to be the most possible interpretation of the big questions regarding origins in general than the pseudo-scientific theory of evolution. the Cambrian explosion of complex and diverse body plans and well-developed organs cannot be explained by the fairy tale random mutation. Bravo S Mayer.

    1 person found this helpful

    June 10, 2021
  • David Graieg

    A detailed analysis of the Cambrian explosion

    Meyer argues that intelligent design is a better explanation than naturalistic evolution.
    I found this a little technical to fully follow as an audio book (Especially the first part, part three was easier to follow). The book has good content, but is easier to grasp from actually reading it.
    It would be better if audible could add chapter titles instead of just chp 1, chp 2… They should be:
    1 – Prologue
    2 – Darwin’s Nemesis
    3 – The Burgess Bestiary
    4 – Soft Bodies and Hard Facts
    5 – The Not Missing Fossils?
    6 – The Genes Tell the Story?
    7 – The Animal Tree of Life
    8 – Punk Eek!
    9 – The Cambrian Information Explosion
    10 – Combinatorial Inflation
    11 – The Origin of Genes and Proteins
    12 – Assume a Gene
    13 – Complex Adaptations and the Neo-Darwinian Math
    14 – The Origin of Body Plans
    15 – The Epigenetic Revolution
    16 – The Post-Darwinian World and Self-Organization
    17 – Other Post-Neo-Darwinian Models
    18 – The Possibility of Intelligent Design
    19 – Signs of Design in the Cambrian Explosion
    20 – The Rules of Science
    21 – What’s at Stake

    1 person found this helpful

    June 10, 2021

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