Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

There are numerous books that defend evolution and natural selection. Their authors admit to many problems with these theories and propose many supposedly possible solutions but never give definitive answers with any degree of certainty. For example, in Stephen Jay Gould’s discussion of the alleged Cambrian explosion, theory after theory is proposed, all of them based upon little evidence and much imagination. If that were not enough to expose the bankruptcy of the whole issue, one even larger and more obvious question stands out above all others: the problem of origins. That should be dealt with first, yet in a book of more than 300 pages, Gould has nothing to say about this most important problem for any scientist or philosopher.