Here’s where I start to have serious difficulty with Meyer. You see, we both have bachelor degrees in the same…
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I’ve been piddling on this for a while. Honestly, I find the whole exercise extremely annoying. But I promised I…
I’ve discovered that Meyer has conveniently divided his chapters into sub-headings, so I’ll be tackling one sub-heading per post. This…
[Louis] Agassiz concluded that the fossil record, particularly the record of the explosion of Cambrian animal life, posed an insuperable…
A few pages into chapter 1 of Darwin’s Doubt and I have little to complain about. It’s almost shocking how good…
Here is where the creationists excel. Many of them scour the web and research and other publications so that they…
Meyer has long been aware of strong reasons for doubting that mutation and selection can add enough new information of…
Meyer makes another mistake and gets corrected. Shoddy research by Meyer continues. At this point in the book, I think I’ve written 3 or 4 times as many words as Meyer and linked to quite a few more peer-reviewed papers. I hope that I will be able to refer back to these at some point… but we’re still in the prologue and he’s already got a lot of things fundamentally wrong.
Still in the prologue, Meyer starts talking about information and has some problems and makes some mistakes. These problems have been talked about before and I have little hope that Meyer will address them. We’ll see what happens in later chapters, but unless Meyer addresses some of these major issues, then ID is still dead in the water.
I don’t know how much I can stomach of this… I’m going to ignore the four pages where Meyer explains…