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Cladistics Made Easy: Why an Arcane Field of Study Fails to Upset Steve Meyer’s Argument for Intelligent Design

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Enjoy this remarkably clear and amusing conversation with Stephen Meyer about, first of all, what cladistics is and second, why this method of classification analysis in biology leaves the argument in Darwin’s Doubt unscathed. That’s despite claims to the contrary in Nick Matzke’s review of the book that many Darwinists initially cited as the definitive response to Meyer.

David Klinghoffer

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David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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