ENST: Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion
Evolutionists dance around the issue:
the origin of biological information.
Speaking of evolutionary “radiations” (see yesterday’s article), no example is more astonishing than the Cambrian explosion. According to Darwinians, some 20 animal phyla appeared suddenly in a geological instant. But even if one believes in Deep Time, adding millions of years does not help. The key issue is the origin of biological information. That main point is routinely dodged by evolutionary paleontologists.
Some 20 novel body plans appeared abruptly in the “Cambrian Explosion.” Diorama at the Denver Museum.
The following article by our CEH editor was published at Evolution News last month.
Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion
by David Coppedge
Evolution News & Science Today, January 31, 2025
Concerning the well-known and persistent problem of the Cambrian explosion, Stephen Meyer stated the issue as clearly and succinctly as possible in his best-selling book Darwin’s Doubt: “the origin of new biological information” (p. ix). He has repeated this issue in videos, interviews, debates, articles and speeches before and after 2013, the book’s publication date. Indeed, it was the central issue in Meyer’s Smithsonian paper that led to Richard Sternberg’s ouster in 2004. With scientists in the ID movement stating this issue continually for more than two decades, evolutionary biologists cannot claim ignorance of it. Yet to the present day, they dodge it. In three recent papers, we see how they talk about everything and anything but the issue: the origin of new biological information. Let’s consider these papers in order of publication.
Molecular Clock Fiddling
Last November, Philip C. J. Donoghue of the University of Bristol (mentioned by Bechly here) with three colleagues struggled to calibrate the Ediacaran and Cambrian fossil record to the “molecular clock” hypothesis (see my discussion of the molecular clock here). Getting these two data sources to fit has been a pervasive challenge along the entire evolutionary timeline. The abstract of their paper in Science Advances1 claims success, but ends with a quizzical statement….
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