Michael Larkin
Member
I posted this review on the old forum, but it seems to have been lost: at any rate, I can't locate it. The review has now been made available on Mediafire in Word format (thanks, Sciborg :)).
It can be viewed and/or downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/i40dw...bt_Review_for_Skeptiko_readers_PROTECTED.docx
Most people should have Microsoft Word, but if not, it can still be read in the free Word Reader program, which is available for Windows, Mac or Linux. Failing that, it can be read within Mediafire without downloading.
It has a table of contents for navigation and is paginated, so if you have any comments, you can refer to specific sections/pages. I am hoping that at least some people hostile to ID in general and Meyer in particular will take the trouble to read it, and who knows, actually buy the book, which of course contains a great deal more detail. I've used a few quotes from it, but tried to limit those under fair use. Apart from those, the words are my own (excepting Web snippets marked as such), and pictures are from the Web, not the book.
Just a note: ID is not the opposite of evolution. Many ID proponents and sympathisers are, like me, ardent supporters of evolution: I don't see how anyone can deny the evidence of the fossil record that organisms have evolved over time. The big issue is whether neo-Darwinism adequately explains how, and in my book it doesn't, so there could be a role for consciousness in evolution. I don't happen to agree with Meyer that if there is, it's represented by the God of the bible (about that fellow, I count myself an atheist). Many ID proponents aren't religious; some are agnostic, and a few, even total atheists.
Darwin's Doubt only touches on ID in the final few chapters: most of the book explains the inadequacies of neo-Darwinism, even in the eyes of many mainstream evolutionists, and mentions other hypotheses being proposed by them. Like Meyer, I'm not that impressed with those, either.
It can be viewed and/or downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/i40dw...bt_Review_for_Skeptiko_readers_PROTECTED.docx
Most people should have Microsoft Word, but if not, it can still be read in the free Word Reader program, which is available for Windows, Mac or Linux. Failing that, it can be read within Mediafire without downloading.
It has a table of contents for navigation and is paginated, so if you have any comments, you can refer to specific sections/pages. I am hoping that at least some people hostile to ID in general and Meyer in particular will take the trouble to read it, and who knows, actually buy the book, which of course contains a great deal more detail. I've used a few quotes from it, but tried to limit those under fair use. Apart from those, the words are my own (excepting Web snippets marked as such), and pictures are from the Web, not the book.
Just a note: ID is not the opposite of evolution. Many ID proponents and sympathisers are, like me, ardent supporters of evolution: I don't see how anyone can deny the evidence of the fossil record that organisms have evolved over time. The big issue is whether neo-Darwinism adequately explains how, and in my book it doesn't, so there could be a role for consciousness in evolution. I don't happen to agree with Meyer that if there is, it's represented by the God of the bible (about that fellow, I count myself an atheist). Many ID proponents aren't religious; some are agnostic, and a few, even total atheists.
Darwin's Doubt only touches on ID in the final few chapters: most of the book explains the inadequacies of neo-Darwinism, even in the eyes of many mainstream evolutionists, and mentions other hypotheses being proposed by them. Like Meyer, I'm not that impressed with those, either.