Yet Again, Answering Paleontologist Donald Prothero on the Duration of the Cambrian Explosion; Plus Bonus "Taradiddle" Alert

In his debate with "skeptic" Michael Shermer on the Michael Medved Show this week, Stephen Meyer had the opportunity to respond to a spurious review of Darwin's Doubt that appeared under the auspices of Shermer's Skeptic magazine. The widely cited review by paleontologist Donald Prothero focused on Prothero's contention, nothing more than a definitional trick, that the Cambrian explosion was an 80-million-year event rather than (as most paleontologists say) a 10-million-year one.

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