I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I. The future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'd like to read for you an exclusive

excerpt from Dr Robert Shetinger's new book, Darwin's Bluff, The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished,

now available from Discovery Institute Press.

Darwin freely admitted that solid empirical evidence was largely absent from the origin of species, and he promised

a sequel that would supply the missing evidence and expand on his mere abstract of a theory, as he called

it. He penned a good deal of that sequel, 300,000 words to be exact, but he never finished it or chose to publish it. Why not? In a fresh and engrossing piece of historical detective work, Dr. Schenger provides evidence

that Darwin's big book, begun in earnest, devolved into a bluff.

To start things off, I want to share a few of the endorsements of

Darwin's bluff. After all that's often the first thing you see in a book when you pick

it up and I find that those are helpful in framing the book and capturing the essence of it.

Here's what paleo-entemologist Gunter Beckley said about it.

Beckley is former curator of amber and fossil insects in the Department of Paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany.

He's a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.

Bakley says, Darwin's bluff particularly resonates with me.

In 2009, as a card-carrying Darwinist, serving as a fossil curator in one of Germany's natural history museums,

I mounted an exhibit showing Darwin's famous work outweighing the works of his leading

modern detractors. To prepare for hard questions from reporters, I decided to give the Naysayer books a quick read.

Books I had been assured were all froth and foolishness.

I soon discovered that I had been misled. The arguments on those pages were neither shallow nor illogical.

Instead, I came to see that it was actually modern Darwinism that rested on a carefully constructed bluff.

Robert Shetinger's latest book shows that the bluffing has a long pedigree,

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