Video: Still in Search of the Missing Cambrian Ancestors

Stephen Meyer reflects further here on critiques of his book Darwin's Doubt by biologist Nick Matzke. This really is pretty devastating.

Matzke thinks he has found the "missing ancestors" for the Cambrian animals. How? By employing the method of cladistic analysis -- which, however, presupposes for the history of life the model of a branching tree terminating at a common ancestor. The presupposition if accepted guarantees that the Cambrian creatures emerged from ancestral forms. But obviousl...