Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design ― As Featured in the Film, The Story of Everything - Softcover

Meyer, Stephen C.

 
9780061472794: Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design ― As Featured in the Film, The Story of Everything
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061472794 ISBN 13: 9780061472794
Verlag: HarperOne, 2010

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“Signature in the Cell is a defining work in the discussion of life’s origins and the question of whether life is a product of unthinking matter or of an intelligent mind. For those who disagree with ID, the powerful case Meyer presents cannot be ignored in any honest debate. For those who may be sympathetic to ID, on the fence, or merely curious, this book is an engaging, eye-opening, and often eye-popping read” — American Spectator

Named one of the top books of 2009 by the Times Literary Supplement (London), this controversial and compelling book from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design (ID), based on revolutionary discoveries in science and the biological information stored in DNA. Tackling the central mystery of the origin of life, Meyer argues that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution as expounded in The Origin of Species did not, in fact, refute ID. If you enjoyed Francis Collins’s The Language of God, you’ll find much to ponder—about evolution, the digital code in DNA, and intelligent design—in Signature in the Cell.

What is the signature in the cell, and what does it reveal about the origin of life?

  • The DNA Enigma: Delve into the mystery of how the digital information in DNA first arose—the question that materialistic evolutionary theories have been unable to answer.
  • Specified Complexity: Discover the concept of specified information, the unique hallmark of intelligent agency, and see how it appears in the cell’s molecular machinery.
  • Critique of Chemical Evolution: A comprehensive review of the failures of leading scientific theories—from chance to self-organization—to explain the origin of the first life.
  • Evidence for Intelligent Design: Follow the step-by-step argument as Meyer makes a positive, evidence-based case for an intelligent cause as the best explanation for the information at the heart of life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science after working as an oil industry geophysicist. He now directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington. He authored Signature in the Cell, a (London) Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.

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A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science

In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design. As he tells the story of successive attempts to unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address—how did life begin?—Meyer develops the case for this often-misunderstood theory using the same scientific method that Darwin himself pioneered. Offering a fresh perspective on one of the enduring mysteries of modern biology, Meyer convincingly reveals that the argument for intelligent design is not based on ignorance or "giving up on science," but instead on compelling, and mounting, scientific evidence.

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A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science

In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design. As he tells the story of successive attempts to unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address--how did life begin?--Meyer develops the case for this often-misunderstood theory using the same scientific method that Darwin himself pioneered. Offering a fresh perspective on one of the enduring mysteries of modern biology, Meyer convincingly reveals that the argument for intelligent design is not based on ignorance or giving up on science, but instead on compelling, and mounting, scientific evidence.

--Dr. Philip S. Skell, member, National Academy of Sciences, and Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University

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HarperOne
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061472794
ISBN 13 
9780061472794
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624
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