"Bringing to bear the work of many dozen scientists over many decades, Meyer, who after a stint as a geophysicist in Dallas earned a Ph.D. in History and Philos

"Bringing to bear the work of many dozen scientists over many decades, Meyer, who after a stint as a geophysicist in Dallas earned a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge and now directs the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture" I'd sooner trust anyone with a bachelor's in Biology over a physicist and especially a philosopher as those folks tend to believe thruth can be constructed through arguments. "Meyer doesn’t only demolish Darwin; he defends a replacement theory, intelligent design (I.D.)" The point wasn't ever to put Natural Selection to the test. The point was God. The point is God and the point was going to be God all along. "Meyer and other proponents of I.D. are the dispassionate intellectuals making orderly scientific arguments" They are mostly reputable scientists from other fields who just happen to be devout christians, as well. They use their reputations to make the argument for religion. That doesn't make them bad scientists, just unqualified to speak on this topic. I'd recommend Meester's probability textbook interested in probability theory even though he is pro-id. as for the whole cambrian thing, i defer to someone qualified but let's be clear that the author is stating at least one untruth here: the first animals appeared not during the cambrian but during the preceding period. To quote wikipedia: "The fossil record from the Ediacaran Period is sparse, as more easily fossilized hard-shelled animals had yet to evolve. The Ediacaran biota include the oldest definite multicellular organisms (with specialized tissues), the most common types of which resemble segmented worms, fronds, disks, or immobile bags".