Cspan2. Youre watching book tv, next, steven meyer said down with book tv and freedom fest in las vegas to talk about his latest book. In the book he discusses the mysteries surrounding the origins of the animals that appeared during the cambrian explosion. Over 5 billion years ago. This is about half an hour. Steven meyer of the Discovery Institute, author of darwins death, the explosive origin of animal life, the case for intelligent design. Dr. Meyer, what was darwins death . A great place to start the conversation because that is what i do in the book and my toes story about his own theory and what has become of it, the way has drawn up to become illustrative of a major crisis. The doubt that he had was about something called the cambrian explosion which is the geological appearance of most of the major groups of animals in ag logical time called the cambrian period 530 million years ago. Antar when was aware of this problem, and in the origin of species he invested and a knowledge
Conversation. That is what i do in the book, tell the story of this doubt that darwin had about his own theory in what has become of it, the way has grown up to become a major crisis sudden appearance of most of the major groups of animals in a geological time called the cambridge, 539 years ago. And there was aware of this problem, and in the origin of species the adjusted and enologist there was a problem. He understood it. It just on fulton a slow and gradual way. He depicted life as a branching tree. The base of the tree represents the first simple onecelled organisms, and all the terminal branches are presented the forms of life that we see today. The connecting bridges were presented the intermediate forms a should have arisen through the dusty on the time. He also taught that the process would be very slowly because is the mechanism of Natural Selection acting on random variation had to act very slowly. The variations, as she conceived, would be small, minute, incremental. If th