Posted on 01/12/2025 6:50:59 AM PST by daniel1212
In the growing movement known as intelligent design, Stephen Meyer is an emerging figurehead. A young, Cambridge-educated philosopher of science, Meyer is director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute — intelligent design’s primary intellectual and scientific headquarters. He’s also author of Signature in the Cell, a provocative new book that offers the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design.[...]
What would be your main argument for the evidence of intelligent design in the cell?
Well, the main argument is fairly straightforward. We now know that what runs the show in biology is what we call digital information or digital code. This was first discovered by [James] Watson and [Francis] Crick. In 1957, Crick had an insight which he called “The Sequence Hypothesis,” and it was the idea that along the spine of the DNA molecule there were four chemicals that functioned just like alphabetic characters in a written language or digital characters in a machine code. The DNA molecule is literally encoding information into alphabetic or digital form. And that’s a hugely significant discovery, because what we know from experience is that information always comes from an intelligence, whether we’re talking about hieroglyphic inscription or a paragraph in a book or a headline in a newspaper. If we trace information back to its source, we always come to a mind, not a material process. So the discovery that DNA codes information in a digital form points decisively back to a prior intelligence. That’s the main argument of the book.[...]
I think the digital revolution in computing has made it much easier to understand what’s happening in biology. We know from experience that not only software but the information processing system and design strategies that software engineers use to process and store and utilize information are not only being used in digital computing but they’re being used in the cell. It’s the same basic design logic, but it’s executed with an 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 efficiency. It’s an elegance that far surpasses our own. It’s a new day in biology. It’s a digital revolution. We have digital nanotechnology running the show inside cells. It’s exquisitely executed and suggests a preeminent mind.
“He’s also author of Signature in the Cell, a provocative new book that offers the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design.”
It’s not a new book it’s been out for quite a few years. I read it and it’s an excellent book, very persuasive. It’s written from a totally scientific, logical point of view - he doesn’t resort to bible passages to make his case.
His degree is in Philosophy of Science, which analyzes the nature of science itself and its methodology and limits.
I very much recommend it.
Well said, it’s basically the summary of the book!
In my view the most important ingredient missing from the primordial soup is the single mindedness drive, fight, and will to reproduce and survive at every stage of life’s development.
Inert objects have no such drive.
Dumb question. The mere existence of DNA, it’s form and makeup, leave no doubt as to intelligent design, i.e., GOD.
“His degree is in Philosophy of Science, which analyzes the nature of science itself and its methodology and limits.”
His undergraduate degree is in geophysics and he worked in the oil industry.
I’ve read all of his books which make for compelling and very informative reading. In addition I’ve read Michael Behe’s books starting with “Darwin’s Black Box”.
As a young man I was an atheist. After a few degrees in science I realized the impossibility of nature making the complex biology of plants and animals and us. I am no longer an atheist.
Thanks and thank God.
Soros candidates?
Pollywogs to polar bears. Chance and Time is to the evolutionists what an omniscient omnipotent God is to the believer.
the article is about Intelligent Design ....
“I’ve read all of his books which make for compelling and very informative reading. In addition I’ve read Michael Behe’s books starting with “Darwin’s Black Box”.”
Yes Behe’s books are also very good.
They both also have lots of great YouTube videos.
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