Author: Stephen C. Meyer

Bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC as setting sun illuminates interior of the monument

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, body, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, earth, explanatory power, Heaven, John Dewey, Joshua Farris, Karl Marx, matter, mind, modus tollens, On the Origin of Species, personhood, Plato, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud, soul, The Creation of Self, Thomas Aquinas}

What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

9}

The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

8}

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, aqueducts, atheism, block printing, Cambridge University, Chinese, compass, faith, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, Greeks, gunpowder, history, Ian Barbour, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John William Draper, Judeo-Christian tradition, Melissa Cain Travis, monotheism, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophers, pyramids, roads, Robert Boyle, Romans, scientific revolution, theology, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Western Europe}

New Book: For This Scientist, Science Did Not Point to Atheism

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 17, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Kepler was not alone. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many others who established modern science were deeply religious thinkers. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science
Tagged
, A Leg to Stand On, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Charles Thaxton, Charles University, Czech Republic, Dallas, David Hume, DNA, Douglas Axe, England, Enlightenment, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, information, information theory, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Prague, Roger Olsen, Russell Doolittle, Stephen Meyer, Texas, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science

10}

It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 29, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological information, cosmic fine-tuning, designing intelligence, faith, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, panspermia, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, theism, universe, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series)}

Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 29, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

6}

Although the case for intelligent design depends upon scientific evidence and methods of reasoning, it may well have larger theistic implications. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 28, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, cosmic fine-tuning, Fred Hoyle, functional specification, improbability, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Susskind, multiverse, Paul Davies, probability, Return of the God Hypothesis, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series)}

Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 28, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

6}

The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 25, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complexity, cryptography, design detection, DNA, probability, Rosetta Stone, scientific method, Signature in the Cell, specification, The Design Inference, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series), William A. Dembski}

The Logic of Design Detection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 25, 2022

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind. Read More ›