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Stephen Meyer Explains the DNA Challenge to Theistic Evolution

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Celebrating the release of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, Stephen Meyer, who contributed several chapters to the giant book, offers here a very crisp and helpful introduction to the codebreaking work of Francis Crick and more. Meyer considers DNA and the problem of the biological information it encodes:

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Coded information of this kind is a profound problem for theistic or atheistic evolution (quick, what’s the scientific difference between the two?). Watch this excellent brief video, “DNA 101: How It Works and Why It’s Astounding,” and find out why.

Photo: Francis Crick, by Marc Liebermanderivative work: Materialscientist [CC BY 2.5 or CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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