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Conceptual illustration with physical model of DNA molecule

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 21, 2012
Intelligent Design}

Signature in the Cell

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 21, 2012
Intelligent Design}

When James Watson and Francis Crick elucidated the structure of DNA in 1953, they solved one mystery but created another. Read More ›

Stephen Meyer interviewed by Michael Medved

^{Michael Medved and Stephen C. Meyer
June 29, 2009
Intelligent Design}

The Michael Medved Show: Signature in the Cell

_{Michael Medved and Stephen C. Meyer
June 29, 2009
Intelligent Design}

Dr. Meyer discusses the information revolution and the challenge it presents for Darwinism with Michael Medved, expounding the argument for intelligent design from information. Transcript Speaker 1 (00:06):And now America’s number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved show. And Michael Medved (00:15):Another great day in this greatest nation on God’s green earth, where so Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

DNA and the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

This article appears in the peer-reviewed* volume Darwinism, Design, and Public Education published with Michigan State University Press. Stephen C. Meyer contends that intelligent design provides a better explanation than competing chemical evolutionary models for the origin of the information present in large biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins. Meyer shows that the term information as applied to DNA connotes not only improbability or complexity but also specificity of function. He then argues that neither chance nor necessity, nor the combination of the two, can explain the origin of information starting from purely physical-chemical antecedents. Instead, he argues that our knowledge of the causal powers of both natural entities and intelligent agency suggests intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the information necessary to build a cell in the first place. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design}

Mere Creation

_{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design}

This extensive volume contains essays by numerous Discovery Fellows who presented at an early intelligent design conference at Biola University in 1996. As Henry F. Shaefer III explains in the forward, the conference was not a typical “creationist” event, as “virtually none of the conference participants were creationists of the sort one frequently reads about in the popular press” and Read More ›