The Story of Everything Stephen C. Meyer, John Lennox, Brian Keating, Luke Barnes, David Berlinski, Jay W. Richards, Robert Sheldon, Timothy McGrew, Douglas Axe, Michael J. Behe, James Tour, Frank Tipler, Bijan Nemati, Sarah Salviander, Walter Myers III, William A. Dembski, Brendan Dixon, Richard Gunasekera, Richard Sternberg, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin and Michael Newton Keas
The Story of Everything is a cinematic exploration of the cosmos that reveals the hidden hand behind our universe. From the precise laws that govern the stars to the intricate patterns found in every living cell, the film traces evidence of intentional design throughout nature. Whether examining distant star-forming clouds or the spiral structure of DNA, we discover a consistent signature woven into the fabric of existence.
Director , Center for Science and CultureDr. Stephen C. Meyer received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute in Seattle. He is author of the New York Times -bestseller Darwin’s Doubt (2013) as well as the book Signature in the Cell (2009) and Return of the God Hypothesis (2021). In 2004, Meyer ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed scientific article advancing intelligent design. Meyer has been featured on national television and radio programs, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CBS’s Sunday Morning, NBC’s Nightly News, ABC’s World News, Good Morning America, Nightline, FOX News Live, and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. He has also been featured in two New York Times front-page stories and has garnered attention in other top-national media. John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, is an internationally renowned speaker on the interface of science, philosophy and religion. He regularly teaches at many academic institutions, is Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum and has written a series of books exploring the relationship between science and Christianity. Brian Keating is a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a writer and podcaster and the bestselling author of one of Amazon Editors’ “Best Non-fiction Books of All Time,” Losing the Nobel Prize. Writer, Thinker, Raconteur, and Senior Fellow , Discovery Institute David Berlinski received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Berlinski has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels. He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at such universities as Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris. In addition, he has held research fellowships at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France. Photo by Ashlee Best, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow at Discovery, Director of Devos Center at Heritage FoundationJay W. Richards, Ph.D., is Vice President of Social and Domestic Policy and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage ; Money, Greed, and God , winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; The Privileged Planet with Guillermo Gonzalez, coming out in a second edition in 2024; The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe with Douglas Axe and William Briggs; and Eat, Fast, Feast . His most recent book, with James Robison, is Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War . Robert Sheldon is a physicist (BS Wheaton, MAR Westminster WTS, PhD UMCP) who presently works for the government, but has had a long career in academia studying satellite instrumentation, space plasma physics, comets, cosmology, nuclear propulsion, and science/faith conflicts. He has published over 60 papers and 3 books: Laser Satellite Communication ; The Long Ascent, vol 1.; and The Long Ascent, vol 2. (with vol. 3 to come). The trilogy examines the scientific, mythic, and Hebraic support for a recent Adam, Eden, Flood, and the Tower of Babel as in the first 11 chapters of Genesis. Photo provided by Timothy McGrew. Fellow , Center for Science and CultureTimothy McGrew is Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His work focuses on formal epistemology, the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, and the growing role of artificial intelligence in human reasoning — both its promise as a tool for discovery and its dangers when misuse or cognitive offloading erodes human intellectual skill. He is the author of The Foundations of Knowledge , co-author (with Lydia McGrew) of Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason , and co-editor of Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology . McGrew is also the author and continuing maintainer of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article “Miracles,” and his scholarly work has appeared in journals including Mind , Analysis , and The Monist . Photo provided by Doug Axe. Rosa Endowed Chair of Molecular Biology at Biola University, Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureDouglas Axe is the Rosa Endowed Chair of Molecular Biology at Biola University, the founding Director of Biologic Institute, the founding Editor of BIO-Complexity , and the author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed . After completing his PhD at Caltech, he held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre. His research, which examines the functional and structural constraints on the evolution of proteins and protein systems, has been featured in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology , the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , BIO-Complexity , and Nature , and in such books as Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer and Life’s Solution by Simon Conway Morris. Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe. Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureMichael J. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Behe’s current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures. In his career he has authored over 40 technical papers and three books, Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA that Challenges Evolution , Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution , and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism , which argue that living system at the molecular level are best explained as being the result of deliberate intelligent design. Professor of Chemistry, of Computer Science, and of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering James Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering at Rice University. A synthetic organic chemist, he received his BS in Chemistry from Syracuse University, his PhD in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University, and postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He has served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina and as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Tour has over 700 research publications and over 130 patent families. FRANK J. TIPLER is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University. He is the author of The Physics of Immortality , about the ultimate limits of computers and the role computers will play in the universe; The Physics of Christianity ; and (with John Barrow) The Anthropic Cosmological Principle , about fine tuning and the significance of intelligent life in the universe. Chief Scientist and Founder , Tellus1 ScientificBijan Nemati received his Ph.D. in high energy physics from the University of Washington, based on his research on heavy quark decays at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. After post-doctoral work at the Cornell synchrotron, he left particle physics to work on advanced astronomical instruments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Nemati’s work on the NASA flagship Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) proved that the instrument could self-calibrate at the levels needed to detect exo-Earths. For the last decade he has helped build the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. More recently, he has started a small company specializing in modeling and system engineering of advanced telescopes, both on the ground and in space. Photo courtesy of Sarah Salviander A former researcher in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas, Sarah Salviander is an astrophysicist who studies extreme deep-space phenomena, mostly quasars, supermassive black holes, and giant galaxies. She has authored peer-reviewed journal and conference papers as well as popular-level magazine articles. She also regularly brightens social media feeds as a science educator. Board of Directors , Discovery InstituteWalter is a Principal Engineering Manager leading a team of engineers, working with customers to drive their success in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology, where he is an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Arts in Science & Religion (MASR) program teaching on Darwinian evolution from a design-centric perspective. Image provided by Bill Dembski Founding and Senior Fellow , Center for Science and Culture, Distinguished Fellow , Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial IntelligenceA mathematician and philosopher, Bill Dembski is the author/editor of more than 25 books as well as the writer of peer-reviewed articles spanning mathematics, engineering, biology, philosophy, and theology. With doctorates in mathematics (University of Chicago) and philosophy (University of Illinois at Chicago), Bill is an active researcher in the field of intelligent design. But he is also a tech entrepreneur who builds educational software and websites, exploring how education can help to advance human freedom with the aid of technology. Fellow, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence Brendan Dixon is a Software Architect with experience designing, creating, and managing projects of all sizes. His first foray into Artificial Intelligence was in the 1980s when he built an Expert System to assist in the diagnosis of software problems at IBM. Since then, he’s worked both as a Principal Engineer and Development Manager for industry leaders, such as Microsoft and Amazon, and numerous start-ups. While he spent most of that time other types of software, he’s remained engaged and interested in Artificial Intelligence. Research Professor of Science, Technology, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, and Health at Biola University, Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureRichard Gunasekera is Research Professor of Science, Technology and Health at Biola University, and holds professorships in Biological Sciences and Biochemistry. He has enjoyed a 20-year career in higher education as Professor and a scientist in the field of Biochemical Genetics and Forensic Science. He earned his bachelor’s in biochemistry at Baylor University, a master’s degree in bio-organic chemistry from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, a master’s in molecular genetics and a doctorate in Biomedical Sciences at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He has held faculty and research positions at Rice University in Houston, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, and the University of Houston-Victoria. His research now spans several interdisciplinary fields such as biochemical genetics, nanomedicine, forensic science, and cancer biology. Gunasekera’s work is focused on using nanomedicine to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria and viruses which he conducts with collaborators such as Dr. James Tour and others at his home institution. He has recently published molecular findings regarding the SARS CoV-2 virus and potential prevention methodologies of COVID-19 that were cited by WHO-related investigators early in the pandemic. Richard and his wife Nisha have two children. Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureRichard Sternberg is an evolutionary biologist with interests in the relation between genes and morphological homologies, and the nature of genomic “information.” He holds two Ph.D.’s: one in Biology (Molecular Evolution) from Florida International University and another in Systems Science (Theoretical Biology) from Binghamton University. From 2001-2007, he served as a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and from 2001-2007 was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Sternberg is presently a research scientist at the Biologic Institute, supported by a research fellowship from the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. He is also a Research Collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History. Research Coordinator and Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureDr. Miller obtained a BS in physics with a minor in engineering from MIT and a PhD in complex systems physics from Duke University. His research focuses on thermodynamics, information theory, protein rarity, and the origin of life. Dr. Miller is a Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator for the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. He helps manage the ID 3.0 Research Program and helped launch the biennial Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS). Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Associate Director , Research Director , and Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureCasey Luskin is a geologist and an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution. He earned his PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg, and BS and MS degrees in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied evolution extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His law degree is from the University of San Diego, where he focused his studies on First Amendment law, education law, and environmental law. Courtesy of Michael Keas Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureAfter earning a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Oklahoma, Mike Keas won research grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He experienced some of the last historic moments behind the Berlin Wall as a Fulbright scholar in East Germany. Keas serves as lecturer in the history and philosophy of science at Biola University . He has written numerous articles, including “Systematizing the Theoretical Virtues ” in the top-tier philosophy journal Synthese . This essay analyzes twelve traits of reputable theories, and has generated dialogue across many fields. With a quarter-century of experience teaching science and its history to college students, Keas is qualified to lay out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom about science and religion departs from reality. He has done so in the ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion