Listen to the Prologue to Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt
On today’s episode out of the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid narrates the prologue to Stephen Meyer’s New York Times bestselling book Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosion of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Whether you’re new to Meyer’s book or read it years ago, you’re likely to hear something new as you listen.
The prologue introduces a far-reaching information revolution in biology that began with Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s information-bearing properties, revealing that living things depend upon digital information. This concept is central, as building fundamentally new life forms requires an immense amount of new information. While Meyer’s first solo book Signature in the Cell addresses the challenge of new information at the origin of the first life, Darwin’s Doubt extends this inquiry to the Cambrian explosion, a geologically sudden event in the history of life that introduced massive amounts of new biological information without evolutionary precursors. Dr. Meyer reviews the attempts to explain the sudden rise of complex animal life and explains why intelligent design is the most adequate explanation to satisfy the available data.
As Meyer points out, there’s a significant disparity between the popular perception of evolutionary theory and its actual standing in the relevant peer-reviewed scientific literature. This sets the stage for a comprehensive examination of “Darwin’s most significant doubt” and the ongoing crisis in evolutionary biology regarding the origin of biological form and information.
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