Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

Ah, Google Play. Here I am thinking that I was in the non-fiction section. There is no scientific evidence for Intelligent Design. ID is merely a thinly veiled attempt to rehash creationism for the science classrooms of US schools. Stephen C Meyer is as much a 'controversial figure' as he is a scientist. The mainstream scientific community will stop 'persecuting' him and pay attention when he starts writing peer-reviewed articles of substance. Creationists don't seem to understand that we didn't expect Darwin to get everything right the first time - scientists don't read from the 'gospel of Darwin' - we take past scientific theories and improve upon them. Stop trying to prove Darwin wrong in order to disprove the entire theory of evolution - stick to your Bibles, guys.

This book is more of a narrative of science history for the first half of the book, then goes into conclusions. For everyone saying it doesn't belong in the science section probably just read the synopsis and title. The book offers solid and valid opposing views to Darwinism in regards to origin of human life (that Darwin himself acknowledges) without throwing out or denying all of Darwin's theory of evolution. It simply points out that in regards to origin of life Darwin's theory is largely negative.

Darwin's Doubt is the most comprehensive critique of the neo-Darwinian paradigm written to date. As Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lonnig, senior scientist emeritus (biologist) at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research puts it “Darwin’s Doubt is by far the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive review of the evidence from all relevant scientific fields that I have encountered in more than forty years of studying the Cambrian explosion.”