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Dr. Stephen C. Meyer's
Darwin's Doubt
An Investigation of the 'Cambrian Explosion'
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The history of life is not an expression of gradualism, not an unbroken continuum of steady development, but a punctuated record of sudden appearance and extinction.
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Editor's note: The following information is from chapter one of Darwin's Doubt.

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| Dr. Stephen C. Meyer |
Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes:
“The history of life is not a continuum of development, but a record punctuated by brief, sometimes geologically instantaneous, episodes of mass extinction and subsequent diversification.”
Darwin’s theory fails to account for a record so discontinuous as this; particularly, the sudden coming into existence of species in their legions during the “Cambrian explosion.”
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