Best Science Argues for a Creator, Former Geophysicist Says

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Best Science Argues for a Creator, Former Geophysicist Says

By Tyler O'Neil , CP Contributor

July 30, 2013|5:40 pm

Theories of evolution, Darwinian and otherwise, fail to explain the development of animal life, and intelligent design explains it better, argues former geophysicist Stephen C. Meyer in his recently released New York Times best-selling book, Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design.

 

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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.

 

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"You don't see the evidence of the long progression in the fossil record, which is the best historical evidence we have of what actually happened," he said. Instead, the fossil record shows a sudden burst of more complicated life in what scientists call the "Cambrian Explosion." The first part of the book focuses on this "mystery of the missing fossils."

 

Another gaping hole deepens the problem, Meyer added. He discussed "the engineering problem of how natural selection acting on random genetic variations and mutations could produce animals of this complexity in the time available." He cited new discoveries in genetics and developmental biology which show how the oft-touted system of natural selection "lacks the creative power long attributed to it."

 

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He noted that his book has received a great deal of criticism, but added that "the substance of the argument has not been addressed by these critics." Instead, he has found "sociologically interesting name calling, ad hominem attacks…a resort to potty talk."

 

Full review here

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What exactly is intelligent design creationism's better explanation? 

 

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The article is a book review. Book reviews rarely touch on these kinds of details, which are reserved for reading the book.

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Nope, just sharing for whomever might be interested.

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Oh, I figured since you posted it, you were endorsing its contents and therefore could answer some of the questions.

 

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Questions

 

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isaiah 29:16

 

And Cautions

 

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Isaiah 45:9

 

And The End Of Pride

 

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

 

And The Offer

 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

 

For You

 

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

 

Believe And Be Blessed Beloved

 

Love, Joe