Dr. Stephen Meyer

Signature in the Cell

DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Talking Points

Stephen Meyer is the scientist who started the recent flurry about intelligent design when the Smithsonian Institution published his pro-ID paper in their science journal. He has appeared multiple times on all of the national TV networks, national NPR, has been the feature of two front-page New York Times stories, and is a regular guest on conservative talk radio programs.

Description

Signature in the Cell does not merely provide a critique of evolutionary theories. It shows that, based on our uniform and repeated experience-the basis of all scientific reasoning about the past-there is a strong positive case for intelligent design. From our experience we know that intelligence alone produces large amounts of information. Thus, the book shows that the argument for intelligent design from DNA is not based on ignorance or a desire to “give up on science,” but instead upon just the opposite: our growing scientific knowledge of the inner workings of the cell and our experience-based knowledge of the cause-and-effect structure of the world. For just this reason the argument for design can be formulated as a rigorous and positive scientific argument-specifically one called “an inference to the best explanation.” The book shows, ironically, that the argument for intelligent design from DNA is based on the same method of scientific reasoning that Darwin himself used.