Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Response to Criticism

Current Biology Paper’s Assumptions and Methodology Dramatically Underestimate “Rates of Change” in the Cambrian Explosion

While Stephen Meyer pointed out this paper's most fundamental flaw, there are many other deficiencies. I focus on nine total in this article. Read More ›
purple lightning
Powerful lightnings
Image Credit: Minerva Studio - Adobe Stock

Does Lightning-Fast Evolution Solve the Cambrian Enigma?

The authors of a paper in Current Biology present the problem of the Cambrian explosion — the rapid emergence of new forms of animal life — as it own solution. Read More ›
geological-sample-with-small-shells-stockpack-adobe-stock.jpg
Geological sample with small shells
Image Credit: mettus - Adobe Stock

More on Small Shelly Fossils and the Length of the Cambrian Explosion: A Concluding Response to Charles Marshall

In my previous replies to Marshall's review in Science of Darwin's Doubt, I've responded to his critiques of the main argument of the book. Read More ›

On the Medved Show’s Science & Culture Update, We’ll Be Talking Today About the Critical Reception of Darwin’s Doubt

It would be very welcome to hear some smart Darwinist call up the show and try to tell Steve Meyer why the case his book makes doesn't hold water. Step right up, guys. Read More ›

Does Darwin’s Doubt Commit the God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy?

According to Charles Marshall, I argue "that paleontologists are unable to explain the Cambrian explosion, thus opening the door to the possibility of a designer's intervention." Read More ›

To Build New Animals, No New Genetic Information Needed? More in Reply in Charles Marshall

To rebut the central argument of Darwin's Doubt, Marshall must deny (or push from view) what we know about what new forms of animal life require as a condition of their existence. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute