Debating Darwin’s Doubt · A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied by Klinghoffer, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction: No Debate over Darwinian Evolution? I. Pre-Publication Debate & Discussion

1. Darwinists Waste No Time 2. Gripe-Fest Turns Surreal

II. Speed Reader: Nick Matzke

3. Rush to Judgment 4. Matzke, Cladistics, and Missing Ancestors 5. A Graduate Student Writes 6. How “Sudden” Was the Cambrian Explosion? 7. A One-Man Clade 8. Hopeless Matzke 9. Cladistics to the Rescue?

III. Heavyweight: Berkeley’s Charles Marshall

10. When Theory Trumps Observation 11. No New Genetic Information Needed? 12. The God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy? 13. Small Shelly Fossils and the Cambrian Explosion 14. More on Small Shelly Fossils and the Cambrian Explosion

IV. Biologist: Martin Poenie

15. Answering Objections from Martin Poenie 16. More on Objections from Martin Poenie 17. Orphan Genes: A Guide for the Perplexed 18. Protein Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed 19. Show Me: A Challenge for Martin Poenie

V. Miscellaneous Challenges

VI. Trends in Reviewing D ARWIN’S D OUBT

24. Evidence of Short-Term Memory Loss 25. Reviewing the Reviewers: A Taxonomy of Evasion 26. Hostile Responses Change a Thoughtful Reader

VII. Replying to D ARWIN’S D OUBT Without Naming It

VIII. Responses from Theistic Evolutionists

IX. Independent Confirmation of Meyer’s Thesis

44. Erwin and Valentine: The Cambrian Enigma Unresolved Contributors Index