This was to important not to mention so here It is ->
http://www.darwinsdoubt.com/#
http://www.stephencmeyer.org/
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/04/three_or_four_r071001.html
There's already quite a bit of buzz around Stephen C. Meyer's forthcoming book, Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Darwin's Doubt is going to be another landmark for the ID movement ... [3 days after publication it's already 9th on the NYT bestseller list, I think] ... I see at least three (or four) major reasons why this book is important, and worth reading:
1). Darwin's Doubt will be by far the most in-depth and mature development of those arguments to date, addressing in detail many ideas and rebuttals and theories advanced by evolutionary scientists, and showing why the theory of intelligent design best explains the explosion of biodiversity in the Cambrian animals. [bioinfo]
2). When published, Darwin's Doubt will be the single most up-to-date rebuttal to neo-Darwinian theory from the ID-paradigm ... Meyer reviews much of the peer-reviewed research that's been published by the ID research community over the last few years, and highlights how ID proponents are doing relevant research answering key questions that show Darwinian evolution isn't up to the task of generating new functional information.
3). e now live in a "post-Darwinian" world, where more and more evolutionary biologists are realizing that neo-Darwinism is failing, so they scramble to propose new materialistic evolutionary models to replace the modern synthesis. (These models include, or have included, self-organization, evo-devo, punc eq, neo-Lamarckism, natural genetic engineering, neutral evolution, and others.) In this regard, Darwin's Doubt does something that's never been done before: it surveys the landscape of these "post-neo-Darwinian evolutionary models," and shows why they too fail as explanations for the origin of animal body plans and biological complexity.
The descriptor "game changer" has been used in reference to Darwin's Doubt -- and I think that's accurate. It will be a very important book ... evolutionary scientists who don't question that fully unguided evolutionary mechanisms ... while they attempt to explain the history of life in unguided material terms ... it nonetheless remains the case that "[a] literal reading of the fossil record" shows a suspiciously consistent non-Darwinian pattern of abrupt explosions of new types of organisms. Darwin's Doubt explains why this explosive pattern is not amenable to explanation by unguided evolutionary mechanisms, but is best explained by intelligent design.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/06/forbidden_scien073431.html
The importance of the book is also not exhausted by the existential question that lies behind the evolution debate. If Darwin were ever shown to be right, then what psychologist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl called (in his famous book) Man's Search for Meaning would automatically be rendered null and void. In a Darwinian universe, where life's origin and evolution reflect no design or intention, there can be no ultimate meaning to our existence, as candid Darwinists admit.
However, apart from the scientific, philosophical and spiritual meanings, the context of the book in the debate about academic freedom must also not be forgotten. The spark of the idea that Meyer elaborates in Darwin's Doubt was so controversial when it was unveiled in 2004 that it resulted in a spasm of persecution at our nation's leading public scientific institution, the Smithsonian ... Arguably, no ID theorist has aroused more persecutory rage than Stephen Meyer.
Here, you can listen to more than several hours of commentary on Meyers book in an interview with George Noory [Dennis Prager Am870 also did an interview with him also]
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/06/19
Darwin believed the appearance of purposeful design in living organisms was a kind of illusion, and explained it as a byproduct of an undirected process such as natural selection. However, Darwin recognized that the abrupt or sudden appearance of the first animals in the fossil record around 530 million years ago (in a period called the Cambrian Explosion) posed a challenge to his theory, which predicted a slow, gradual evolution of life. Darwin thought that future fossil discoveries would fill in the missing gaps, but what's happened is just the opposite-- a wider variety of Cambrian animals with intricate forms have been found, Meyer noted.
In unraveling the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion, Meyer viewed the period as a kind of "information revolution," the first since the origin of life itself. "But I realized there was a cause of which we know from our ordinary experience, our uniform and repeated experience (which Darwin taught was the basis of all scientific reasoning) that is capable of generating information. And that cause is intelligence, it's mind, it's conscious or rational activity," he declared. That led him to develop a rigorous, and scientific argument for intelligent design, using the same reasoning methods that Darwin employed.
One biologist said that 'natural selection does a good job of explaining the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest,' Meyer commented. He differentiated his theory from Creationism, noting that the method of reasoning is different. "The theory of intelligent design is not attempting to interpret scripture, it's rather an inference from biological evidence," he said. Meyer further theorized that no agent from within the cosmos was responsible for the fine tuning of life, and the design of the very fabric of the universe.
Here are a few past references I have made to Meyer's and "Signature in the Cell" [Biological Abacus]
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=5
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=6
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=11
http://www.christianityboard.com/blog/51/entry-190-more-astonishing-bible-proof/
http://www.historum.com/blogs/killcarneyklansman/722-causation-effectation-intelligence.html
http://www.historum.com/blogs/killcarneyklansman/578-helping-darwinists-understand-origins.html
Metamorphosis [Monarch butterflies and etc]- should also be mentioned here ... but I don't have the time ... google it
http://www.darwinsdoubt.com/#
http://www.stephencmeyer.org/
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/04/three_or_four_r071001.html
There's already quite a bit of buzz around Stephen C. Meyer's forthcoming book, Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Darwin's Doubt is going to be another landmark for the ID movement ... [3 days after publication it's already 9th on the NYT bestseller list, I think] ... I see at least three (or four) major reasons why this book is important, and worth reading:
1). Darwin's Doubt will be by far the most in-depth and mature development of those arguments to date, addressing in detail many ideas and rebuttals and theories advanced by evolutionary scientists, and showing why the theory of intelligent design best explains the explosion of biodiversity in the Cambrian animals. [bioinfo]
2). When published, Darwin's Doubt will be the single most up-to-date rebuttal to neo-Darwinian theory from the ID-paradigm ... Meyer reviews much of the peer-reviewed research that's been published by the ID research community over the last few years, and highlights how ID proponents are doing relevant research answering key questions that show Darwinian evolution isn't up to the task of generating new functional information.
3). e now live in a "post-Darwinian" world, where more and more evolutionary biologists are realizing that neo-Darwinism is failing, so they scramble to propose new materialistic evolutionary models to replace the modern synthesis. (These models include, or have included, self-organization, evo-devo, punc eq, neo-Lamarckism, natural genetic engineering, neutral evolution, and others.) In this regard, Darwin's Doubt does something that's never been done before: it surveys the landscape of these "post-neo-Darwinian evolutionary models," and shows why they too fail as explanations for the origin of animal body plans and biological complexity.
The descriptor "game changer" has been used in reference to Darwin's Doubt -- and I think that's accurate. It will be a very important book ... evolutionary scientists who don't question that fully unguided evolutionary mechanisms ... while they attempt to explain the history of life in unguided material terms ... it nonetheless remains the case that "[a] literal reading of the fossil record" shows a suspiciously consistent non-Darwinian pattern of abrupt explosions of new types of organisms. Darwin's Doubt explains why this explosive pattern is not amenable to explanation by unguided evolutionary mechanisms, but is best explained by intelligent design.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/06/forbidden_scien073431.html
The importance of the book is also not exhausted by the existential question that lies behind the evolution debate. If Darwin were ever shown to be right, then what psychologist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl called (in his famous book) Man's Search for Meaning would automatically be rendered null and void. In a Darwinian universe, where life's origin and evolution reflect no design or intention, there can be no ultimate meaning to our existence, as candid Darwinists admit.
However, apart from the scientific, philosophical and spiritual meanings, the context of the book in the debate about academic freedom must also not be forgotten. The spark of the idea that Meyer elaborates in Darwin's Doubt was so controversial when it was unveiled in 2004 that it resulted in a spasm of persecution at our nation's leading public scientific institution, the Smithsonian ... Arguably, no ID theorist has aroused more persecutory rage than Stephen Meyer.
Here, you can listen to more than several hours of commentary on Meyers book in an interview with George Noory [Dennis Prager Am870 also did an interview with him also]
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/06/19
Darwin believed the appearance of purposeful design in living organisms was a kind of illusion, and explained it as a byproduct of an undirected process such as natural selection. However, Darwin recognized that the abrupt or sudden appearance of the first animals in the fossil record around 530 million years ago (in a period called the Cambrian Explosion) posed a challenge to his theory, which predicted a slow, gradual evolution of life. Darwin thought that future fossil discoveries would fill in the missing gaps, but what's happened is just the opposite-- a wider variety of Cambrian animals with intricate forms have been found, Meyer noted.
In unraveling the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion, Meyer viewed the period as a kind of "information revolution," the first since the origin of life itself. "But I realized there was a cause of which we know from our ordinary experience, our uniform and repeated experience (which Darwin taught was the basis of all scientific reasoning) that is capable of generating information. And that cause is intelligence, it's mind, it's conscious or rational activity," he declared. That led him to develop a rigorous, and scientific argument for intelligent design, using the same reasoning methods that Darwin employed.
One biologist said that 'natural selection does a good job of explaining the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest,' Meyer commented. He differentiated his theory from Creationism, noting that the method of reasoning is different. "The theory of intelligent design is not attempting to interpret scripture, it's rather an inference from biological evidence," he said. Meyer further theorized that no agent from within the cosmos was responsible for the fine tuning of life, and the design of the very fabric of the universe.
Here are a few past references I have made to Meyer's and "Signature in the Cell" [Biological Abacus]
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=5
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=6
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852&page=11
http://www.christianityboard.com/blog/51/entry-190-more-astonishing-bible-proof/
http://www.historum.com/blogs/killcarneyklansman/722-causation-effectation-intelligence.html
http://www.historum.com/blogs/killcarneyklansman/578-helping-darwinists-understand-origins.html
Metamorphosis [Monarch butterflies and etc]- should also be mentioned here ... but I don't have the time ... google it
