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Author:  Stephen Meyer

Building on the compelling case he presented in Signature in the Cell, Stephen C. Meyer expands the scientific argument for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt, examining the significant event that Darwin’s theory did not explain—the “Cambrian explosion”—when many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock

When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, there was one significant biological event, the “Cambrian explosion” 530 million years ago, that could not be explained by his theory. In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer explores the 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 DNA and the complex creation of life.

Tackling this most controversial aspect of Charles Darwin’s theory, Meyer argues that the origin of the Cambrian animals, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.

560 pages