The BioLogos Forum: Keith Miller

Keith Miller is research assistant professor of geology at Kansas State University in the United States. He is editor of Perspectives on an Evolving Creation (Eerdmans, 2003), an anthology of essays by prominent evangelical Christian scientists who accept theistic evolution. He is also a prominent board member of the Kansas Citizens for Science, a not-for-profit educational organization that promotes a better understanding of science.

Series by Miller

Cambrian Series (1 Parts)

Many evolutionary critics have identified the Cambrian Explosion as a stumbling block to the theory of evolution, arguing that the “expected transitions between major invertebrate phyla are absent, and that the suddenness of their appearance in the fossil record demonstrates that evolutionary explanations are not viable.” In this six part series, Keith Miller argues that the Cambrian Explosion is not so problematic as these opponents claim after all as he discusses the geological time frame, the pre-Cambrian period, the effects of modern classification, the unrealistic expectations of the fossil record, and the viable hypotheses for the “sudden” burst of life.

Posts by Miller

Essays by Miller

The Cambrian 'Explosion', Transitional Forms, and the Tree of Life

December 2010

Geologist Keith Miller examines the "Cambrian Explosion", a period of rapid evolutionary diversification approximately 575 million years ago, and whether it poses a challenge to evolutionary theory. It is an updated and extension of Miller and Campbell's 2003 essay “The ‘Cambrian explosion’: A challenge to evolutionary theory?”from the book Perspectives on an Evolving Creation.