Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer

In this follow-up to Signature in the Cell, author Stephen C. Meyer writes the book that the critics of his first book thought they were attacking. The first book is a rigorous defense of Intelligent Design from a genetic level. In this second book Meyer continues his assault on conventional evolutionary wisdom and focuses his attention on the Cambrian Explosion. His argument draws attention to the incredible amount of biological information that supposedly came into being—using evolutionary terms and time-scales—in just a few million years. When ever since—again in evolutionary terminology—no new phyla or body plans have evolved. Forgetting the typical Creationist arguments Meyer starts by accepting the evolutionary time-scale and sequence of events, then goes on to informing his listeners of just how much information is needed to bring a new living organism into existence. The magnitude is staggering and should give any thinking person reason to abandon materialistic evolution and at least entertain intelligent Design as a possibility.

Derek Shetterly us a good choice to narrate this book full of difficult technical concepts.

Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer

This is not just a book promoting Intelligent Design (ID); one filled with thought experiments and just-so-stories—that is what his evolutionary counterparts are stuck on. Stephen C. Meyer has constructed a mathematically rigorous defense of ID as a scientific concept. Meyer is convinced that the only possible explanation for the existence of the complex information storage systems in the genetic code is that it was designed by an intelligent agent. Listeners of the book will know that he goes out of his way to distance ID from any taint of theism. When Meyer is through you will certainly know that the possibility of the information carrying capacity of the biological cell arising on its own, without any guiding influence, is so vanishingly small that you will be able to sympathize with the materialistic evolutionists who have resorted to the Multiple Universe theory to literally justify their existence as thinking beings. And Meyer has an answer for the Multi-verse as well. This is a difficult listen and requires the listener to pay close attention. It would be of some benefit to anyone who has had some exposure to the study of origins and also has a strong interest in genetic information storage systems.

The information on the Epilogue (Audible chapter 22) contains new information about the incredible nested storage capacity of the DNA molecule. One of the facts I found interesting is that a single sequence in the DNA strand can be used by many different protein coding genes to code for thousands of different proteins. This exacerbates the point-mutation problem of Neo-Darwinists to the degree that one mutation could affect many, many proteins. Another fact I found enlightening is that a gene can utilize DNA information on several different chromosomes.

Derek Shetterly is a fine narrator for the technical material in this book.