Here's Nicholas J. Matzke review on Amazon, note there is no name calling or rant or rails, he keeps it neat concise & professional. As we know that Discovery.org dunces are inevitably whining about or pointing to some name calling, here u find none but we do note Meyer making the most simple errors & great number of omissions
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incompetent and wrong, June 20, 2013By
Nicholas J. Matzke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
I have just read the book. Meyer's book does not fairly represent the scientific fields he is attacking, nor the data and methods underlying them, most of which he does not understand in any depth. He makes basic errors like calling Anomalocaris an arthropod and calling lobopods a "phylum", not noting for the readers that Anomalocaris falls well outside of the crown arthropod phylum, far down in the lobopods, and that the phylum Arthropoda is thought to have evolved from lobopods, as did one or two other phyla. The lobopods are a paraphyletic assemblage of stem taxa, i.e. the very "transitional forms" between phyla that Stephen Meyer claims to be looking for! This is Cambrian Explosion 101 stuff that Meyer gets wrong. There are numerous other errors and fatal, painful omissions of crucial information that would have to be given to readers to make this even a vaguely competent attempt at overturning the reigning scientific paradigm. Instead we just get warmed over creationism disguised in ID terminology. Again. Thus, 1 star.
P.S.: I've written a more detailed review at the Panda's Thumb blog. |
