Darwin’s Doubt
The “Cambrian” Period of earth history is defined as the period between 590-505 million years ago “during which sediments deposited include the first organisms with mineralized skeletons” (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Zoology, edited by Michael Allaby). The Cambrian period is a tremendous headache for evolutionists today, even as it was for Charles Darwin.
Darwin’s Doubt, written by Discovery Institute scientist Stephen Meyer, begins by discussing how a contemporary of Darwin, a Harvard paleontologist named Louis Agassiz, could not accept Darwin’s theory. The reason he could not accept his theory was, in part, because paleontology did not support the idea of gradual evolution. It was a conundrum that perplexed Darwin himself.
The rest of Darwin’s Doubt is dedicated to recent efforts to explain, from an evolutionist’s perspective, how the Cambrian explosion happened. But, there is not reasonable, credible, logical explanation for the Cambrian explosion if we are limited to only naturalistic causes.
Here’s the problem… In the Cambrian period of rocks, we have a sudden appearance of complex animals. These animals have no forms in the “pre-Cambrian” layer that could have evolved into the animals in the Cambrian layer. So, where did they come from? Vertebrate fish are present. Where are the missing links?
Many land plants are present. Where did they come from? Major, complex animal forms show up, out of the blue – fish, reptiles, birds, mammals. It is also not just in the Cambrian layer that the enigma persists. Primates appear in the fossil record, out of “nowhere.” Mankind appears “out of nowhere.”
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Where did these complex fossils originate? Meyer documents a number of efforts of modern scientists to explain where these forms originated but the lab work always comes back, “no explanation.”
Meyer’s explanation, which is the only credible explanation there is, is that these animals were intelligently designed. They were created. Indeed, that is the only explanation for the incredible variety of animals we enjoy in our world today. Not only do scientists have to explain where the animals originated, but they also have to explain where the information came from that generated the first lungs, heart, kidneys, legs, arms, fingernails, etc.
“Yet we do know of a cause that has demonstrated the causal power to produce digital code. That cause is intelligent agency. Since intelligent agency is the only cause known to be capable of generating information (at least starting from nonliving chemicals), intelligent design offers the best explanation for the origin of the information necessary to produce the first organism” (pg. 359).
It is unscientific, irrational, illogical and blind faith to believe in evolution.
–Paul Holland
