"Complexity by Subtraction": In Evolutionary Biology, a Devilishly Subversive Suggestion

A theme in Stephen Meyer's forthcoming book, Darwin's Doubt (June 18), is that we already live in a post-Darwinian world. This will come as a shock to those low-information science consumers who follow trends in biology through the popular media, textbooks, Darwin activist blogs and the like. From such sources, it might appear that Darwinian theory is scientifically unassailable. (Yet even in those venues, cracks are seen in the façade; recall, for example, Laurence Moran's recent admission...