At the Deathbed of Darwinism: A Series of Papers

The collection assembles critical essays and scientific testimony arguing that natural selection fails to account for key aspects of organic evolution. Contributors identify directed or definite variation, abrupt origin of novel structures, gaps in the geological record, methodological weaknesses in phylogenetic reconstructions, and alleged misrepresentations by some advocates. Alternative explanations such as heterogenesis and physiological theories of phyletic growth are examined and defended. The cumulative argument presented is that Darwinian selection has lost explanatory primacy and that alternative frameworks, some invoking teleological or theistic-compatible elements, deserve renewed consideration.