Interesting, I'll have to give that one a look. Right now Meyer has to wait until I finish Westphal's commentary on the Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Interesting, I'll have to give that one a look. Right now Meyer has to wait until I finish Westphal's commentary on the Concluding Unscientific Postscript
When my reading speed plummets, I know that I either need a nap or more caffeine! The part I hate is when you read the same paragraph 4 times and at the conclusion have no greater understanding that you did before you started!
Yep, that's this book. Tiny font, too. "Yeah, I'm just going to read 10 pages or so" - One hour and 9 pages later...
It's a simple matter of concentra... whoa!... Think a horned lark just briefly landed outside the window.
I found some additional links to reviews on Meyer's "Darwin's Doubts" over at Panda's Thumb. Some of the reviews are very lengthy because it always takes 5 times more words to explain why something is wrong. https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2013/09/slaying-meyers.html
The first section of Meyer's book is largely historical and a fine refresher course on essential biology, terra stratification, fossilization, and early counter arguments against Darwinian theory. A great read, imo.
That site still exists... Several very unsurprising names. I still have a hard time taking this seriously. Most seem to complain about conflation of the science with philosophy which is fine and needs to be said. But in the process seem to reject the science as well. So is it a worldview/philosophy they reject or is it the actual theory. That just does not seem clearly stated. Others seem to be basing it on incredulity or the fact some questions have not yet been answered. But what if it is answered in time?
You could be waiting for a while, or not very long at all. It's one of those areas where you have to make that oft-misunderstood 'leap' with what you know at the time. You may end up admitting a mistake, or you may die waiting.