Return of the God Hypothesis

 I was highly impressed by Peter Robinson in Uncommon Knowledge on YouTube when he interviewed Dr Stephen Meyer about his recent book Return of the God Hypothesis. Typically, Peter Robinson has a very 'matter of fact' attitude when discussing something during an interview, but this time he found it 'so striking'.

In the past, I followed various discussions Dr Meyer had on YouTube about his books. I'd feel so sorry for him because of the unwarranted rude and vicious comments he encountered from the scientific community. Stephen Meyer has a Doctorate in the History and Philosophy of Science. 

I was particularly interested in his observations concerning the explosion of animal life during the Cambrian Period. He considered it a circumstance of intelligent design.

Workers building a railroad through the Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia became aware of fossilized remains of extinct marine animals. The area called the Burgess Shale became one of palaeontology's most notable sites. Fossils were preserved in remarkable detail and contained an unprecedented number of species from the Cambrian period, which began roughly five hundred and forty million years ago.

The discovery introduced an anomaly known as the Cambrian explosion. Darwin's theory insinuates that life evolves gradually, but the Cambrian rock seemed to explode with new kinds of life. Darwin himself puzzled over what this might mean. As Darwin suggested in "The Origin of Species," if life evolved gradually, what would account for this explosion?

A couple of years ago. I embarked on a set of lectures on Genetics that were available from the Open University. I did it for no other reason than my interest in cellular activity. Without writing another book on the subject, I strongly agree with Dr Stephen Meyer. There is little we observe or understand without some mode of divine intervention.