Life’s “Abominable” Big Bang

The Cambrian Explosion as Evidence for Intelligent Design

Every good scientific theory worth its name makes precise predictions that allow us to test with real world data if the theory is correct. This is also true for Darwin’s theory of evolution, which predicts that big differences between organisms came about by the accumulation of many small differences over long periods of time. This is also called gradualism.

In his seminal book On the Origin of Species, Darwin quoted the Latin sentence “natura non facit saltus” (“nature does not make jumps”) six times, because he was fully aware that only a gradual development would allow for a purely naturalistic mechanism, while saltations (abrupt changes) would imply some kind of miracle-like...