Stephen C. Meyer Philosopher of Science
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Burgess Shale

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Hand holding a up of a trilobite fossil in a rock, at the Burgess Shale in the Rocky Mountains with an emerald colored lake in the distance.
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Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›