Darwin’s Doubt – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

09Jan 2026 by Post

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

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The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Source

12Dec 2025 by Post

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 10, “The Intelligent Design Movement Died After Dover”

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In December 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design is not science, but religion. Critics predicted this would mean the end of the ID movement. Source

12Jul 2025 by Post

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Question for Stephen Meyer

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That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. Source

18Sep 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

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Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Source

25Jul 2024 by Post

On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

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Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Source

30Dec 2023 by Post

No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Source

26Oct 2023 by Post

Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

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Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Source

19May 2023 by Post

FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution

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An email correspondent who is friendly to intelligent design (ID) recently wrote us asking how to respond to common objections to ID arguments about the Cambrian explosion. Source

08Feb 2023 by Post