Debating Darwin’s Doubt: A Scientific Controversy that Can No Longer Be Denied

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Introduction: No Debate over Darwinian Evolution? I. Pre-Publication Debate & Discussion 1. Darwinists Waste No Time 2. Gripe-Fest Turns Surreal II. Speed Reader: Nick Matzke 3. Rush to Judgment 4. Matzke, Cladistics, and Missing Ancestors 5. A Graduate Student Writes 6. How “Sudden” Was the Cambrian Explosion? 7. A One-Man Clade 8. Hopeless Matzke 9. Cladistics to the Rescue? III. Heavyweight: Berkeley’s Charles Marshall 10. When Theory Trumps Observation 11. No New Genetic Information Needed? 12. The God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy? 13. Small Shelly Fossils and the Cambrian Explosion 14. More on Small Shelly Fossils and the Cambrian Explosion IV. Biologist: Martin Poenie 15. Answering Objections from Martin Poenie 16. More on Objections from Martin Poenie 17. Orphan Genes: A Guide for the Perplexed 18. Protein Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed 19. Show Me: A Challenge for Martin Poenie V. Miscellaneous Challenges 20. Backhanded Compliments from The New Yorker 21. About an Ellipsis: John Farrell in National Review 22. Darwin Defenders Love Donald Prothero’s Amazon Review 23. Does the “Great Unconformity” Explain Missing Ancestors? VI. Trends in Reviewing D ARWIN’S D OUBT 24. Evidence of Short-Term Memory Loss 25. Reviewing the Reviewers: A Taxonomy of Evasion 26. Hostile Responses Change a Thoughtful Reader VII. Replying to D ARWIN’S D OUBT Without Naming It 27. Cambrian Animals? Just Add Oxygen 28. Teamwork: New York Times and Science Offer a Rebuttal 29. To Create Cambrian Animals, Whack the Earth from Space 30. Does Lightning-Fast Evolution Solve the Cambrian Enigma? VIII. Responses from Theistic Evolutionists 31. Finding the Designer’s Garbage 32. BioLogos Delivers a Raft of Reviews 33. Ralph Stearley’s “Well, Maybe, Who Knows?” Review 34. Still Awaiting Engagement 35. Are Biologists Coming to Reject Neo-Darwinian Evolution? 36. Leading Theistic Evolutionist Praises Darwin’s Doubt 37. Methodological Naturalism: A Rule That No One Needs or Obeys 38. Mistaking Intelligent Design for a God-of-the-Gaps Argument 39. Clarifying Issues: My Response to BioLogos 40. Walking It Back? 41. Among Theistic Evolutionists, No Consensus 42. Denying the Signature: A Response to Bishop and O’Connor 43. Of Minds and Causes: A Further Response to Bishop and O’Connor IX. Independent Confirmation of Meyer’s Thesis 44. Erwin and Valentine: The Cambrian Enigma Unresolved Contributors Index