Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer
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2009
Biology
Cell
Charles Darwin
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Evolution
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Intelligent Design
Life
RNA
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Stephen C. Meyer
Stephen Meyer
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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 DNA. Along the way, 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, DNA, and intelligent design—in Signature in the Cell.
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| 01. Prologue.mp3 10.26 MBs | |
| 24. Appendix B - Multiverse Cosmology and the Origin of Life.mp3 11.86 MBs | |
| 07. Chapter 6 - The Origin of Science and the Possibility of Design.mp3 14.79 MBs | |
| 21. Chapter 20 - Why It Matters.mp3 15.38 MBs | |
| 11. Chapter 10 - Beyond the Reach of Chance.mp3 16.05 MBs | |
| 23. Appendix A - Some Predictions of Intelligent Design.mp3 19.15 MBs | |
| 13. Chapter 12 - Thinking Outside the Bonds.mp3 19.41 MBs | |
| 06. Chapter 5 - The Molecular Labyrinth.mp3 21.75 MBs | |
| 02. Chapter 1 - DNA, Darwin, and the Appearance of Design.mp3 21.8 MBs | |
| 19. Chapter 18 - But Is It Science.mp3 22.18 MBs | |
| 10. Chapter 9 - Ends and Odds.mp3 22.78 MBs | |
| 04. Chapter 3 - The Double Helix.mp3 23.1 MBs | |
| 09. Chapter 8 - Chance Elimination and Pattern Recognition.mp3 23.15 MBs | |
| 17. Chapter 16 - Another Road to Rome.mp3 23.93 MBs | |
| 08. Chapter 7 - Of Clues to Causes.mp3 24.09 MBs | |
| 03. Chapter 2 - The Evolution of a Mystery and Why It Matters.mp3 24.26 MBs | |
| 12. Chapter 11 - Self-Organization and Biochemical Predestination.mp3 25.37 MBs | |
| 20. Chapter 19 - Sauce for the Goose.mp3 25.59 MBs | |
| 15. Chapter 14 - The RNA World.mp3 25.81 MBs | |
| 05. Chapter 4 - Signature in the Cell.mp3 25.97 MBs | |
| 18. Chapter 17 - But Does It Explain.mp3 26.12 MBs | |
| 14. Chapter 13 - Chance and Necessity, or the Cat in the Hat Comes Back.mp3 27.2 MBs | |
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| 22. Epilogue - A Living Science.mp3 33.04 MBs | |
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This post has 42 comments with rating of 4.1/5
May 2nd, 2019
http://www.signatureinthecell.com/responses/
May 2nd, 2019
I would recommend people with questions about “directed evolution” (aka creationism / intelligent design” spend their time reading any of these more sensible books, books based on well researched, tested, peer-reviewed science:
+ Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
+ The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is, by Nick Lane
+ The Machinery of Life, by David S. Goodsell
.
(… and yes, I did spend a couple of years formally studying theology, which may be good for exploring the ‘why’ of our lives, but is not at all a good source for science. As Carl Sagan said, ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ …)
May 2nd, 2019
Intelligent design and creationism is baloney because it puts the evidence before the research (God did it). It is not honest scientific investigation. These books do more damage than good because they lead people astray with their snake oil and smokescreen.
May 2nd, 2019
Ugh - recent outbreak of stupidity. Where will it end ? If there’s anything that confirms that humans actually did derive from amoeba, then this tripe has to be it.
May 2nd, 2019
@ssafe - Good points, as usual - I knew you had an interesting education! I suppose an interesting philosophical commentary on the “extraordinary claims” position would be that anything that does exist, no matter how apparently extraordinary, is actually no more or less ordinary than anything else that exists. A fortiori, nothing unreal can have existence.
In fact, planets existed in our own solar system long before anyone proved that they existed, and they are not extraordinary, one could maintain.
(Same could be said of extraterrestrial life).
Things are either real, or they are not. There is no elevated form of existence/reality that demands more proof than the next.
There is just no such thing as an extraordinary claim or extraordinary proof. Everything that exists, is really quite ordinary.
Now we can contrast this with logically contradictory propositions such as - something can come from nothing; and non-life can produce life.
A stimulating area of enquiry. Of course, people have emotional commitments, whatever they invest belief in (for or against).
@Python - What grounds are there to maintain that the phenomenon of stupidity is of recent vintage?!
May 2nd, 2019
As someone who generally accepts evolution, and yes, that inevitably includes evolution among human groups who’ve spend 50,000 to 100,000 years apart and influenced intelligence, brain size, aggressiveness and so on, I’d still like anybody to explain to me how an organ such as the eye can come by when it, very clearly, needs every single part of it to function whatsoever. How can something like that develop gradually at all? How is something like that even possible to be reduced to simpler forms? The suggestion box for simpler designs is open. Despite a hundredtwenty years of research, we are at square one when it comes to the explanation of something as fundamental as that.
May 2nd, 2019
This is science-fiction. Please correctly label.
May 2nd, 2019
Also, why are stupid people able to be so loud these days?
May 2nd, 2019
Yeah, kerian, keep the noise down!
May 2nd, 2019
Try reading the book before reviewing it, kerian_54.
Also the label you suggested isn’t accurate.
May 2nd, 2019
Askatazun https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030215105.htm
May 2nd, 2019
That’s great, the eye is my second-favourite organ.
May 3rd, 2019
What is this current spate of rubbish posing as “science”?
There is no evidence for “intelligent design”.
May 3rd, 2019
@caesar, as you eloquently note “contrast this with logically contradictory propositions such as - something can come from nothing; and non-life can produce life.”
To wit SciAm plays call and response, “Are virtual particles really constantly popping in and out of existence?” — “Virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.”
Or as Joyce put it, ‘three quarks for Muster Mark!’, whose elementary particles ark in an out of existence like a stark wave breaking from swerve of shore to bend of bay.
(See also Brian Greene)
Life from non-life, here we characterize the emergent phenomenon of aggregate complexity. From white-hot-smoker hydrothermal vents and the physics of energy gradients, the inorganic seams transition to organic.
The wall is indeed made of particles that are mostly empty space, but we treat it as solid because to treat it otherwise would result in properties and consequences colliding.
What the mind knows about empty space in atoms and what the body obeys at the intersection with said atoms only seems a logical contradiction.
Or in the words of the Bard, “Seems,” madam? Nay, it is. I know not “seems.”
May 3rd, 2019
Thanks, ssafe. Is it meaningful to maintain that virtual particles come into existence from non-existence; or are such phenomena contingent upon necessary conditions which inhere in the immanent universe, therefore not actually derived from “nothing,” properly understood?
The epistemological issue, m’lord!
We have to function with the working understanding that the object of thought is real or it is not - no liminal zone. But, that certainty of knowledge is where things get a touch dicey.
We cannot be definitively certain of the existence of other minds; that we aren’t brains in vats of proteins & chemicals; the scientific method cannot be verified or validitated through the use of the scientific method itself; transcendentals; abstracts such as numbers; etc. etc. We have to take so many things on faith, without any possibility of supporting evidence. Because the conditions do not exist for the provision of such evidence.
(Ironically, we cannot even “prove” our ole buddy, the principle of non-contradiction!). Objective moral values are another helpful example. They exist necessarily, but what is the ground for their existence?
Consciousness is also a major problem (and not just for Caesar!).
May 3rd, 2019
Nice (and all too rare) to see some sincere curiosity and genuine thought on this subject. I think that if a person is not absolutely fascinated by the full range of existential speculation, then they likely have the intellectual capacity of a Walking Dead goon, or one of those extremophile gentlemen.
May 3rd, 2019
Man oh man,… anything contrary to evolution and the commenters go mad! You guys are more passionate about your religion than a lot of people I know.
May 3rd, 2019
caesar, regarding virtual particles:
A quantum fluctuation is the temporary appearance of energetic particles out of empty space, as allowed by the uncertainty principle. A particle can pop out of the vacuum (and, hence, into existence as we observe it).
Virtual particles are indeed real particles. Quantum theory predicts that every particle spends some time as a combination of other particles in all possible ways. The quantum-to-classical transition can be partial and gradual rather than an instantaneous all or none collapse. Thus a virtual particle is a transient fluctuation that exhibits some of the characteristics of an ordinary particle, while having its existence limited by the uncertainty principle.
Virtual particles do not necessarily carry the same mass as the corresponding real particle, although they always conserve energy and momentum. The longer the virtual particle exists, the closer its characteristics come to those of ordinary particles.
So… the “nothing”, the absolute vacuum empty space from whence it pops, is, for the most part, nothing as much as meets our definition of nothing, and is, at times truly nothing, and yet, we do observe those virtual particles popping out of it. So, as Wallace Stevens would say, it is the “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is”.
May 3rd, 2019
So, everything is eventual, or eminently imminent within the infinite immanent? And that, intermittently, there is no there there?
May 3rd, 2019
Yeah yeah yeah… and the Earth is flat too.
May 3rd, 2019
I expected the usual non-academic, pseudo-scientific ad hominem, paralogic whining from atheists that have not read the book, not read a single book that will challenge their Darwiniac world-view, - and I was not disappointed. Beware of people that publicly criticize a book they have never read. Most of them are authoritarian and intellectually dishonest. There is a reason why atheists killed, raped and tortured more than 100 million innocent people within less than 100 years. More than anyone else in the recorded history of time. Atheism gave us nothing more than death and decay, from the Reign of Terror in France to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. This due to the subjective morality and moral relativism logically inherent within the moral vacuum created by atheism. Compare that to Christianity that gave us Christendom, the greatest civilization the world has ever seen.
Christopher Langan, highest IQ in America. Devout Christian and creationist.
Andrew Magdy Kamal, highest IQ in the world. Devout Christian and creationist.
I find most of the rabid atheists to have an IQ around 105-115. They falsely believe they are so much smarter than the masses and too stupid to understand their own ignorance and intellectual limitation.
May 3rd, 2019
Trump created the universe. It’s obvious, he has the highest ratings and is the best rich person golfer. Case closed.
May 3rd, 2019
Oh dear.. The stupid. It burns….
May 3rd, 2019
@gymp - You’ve developed/incubated it? Apply a potent topical cream, forthwith!
@Rosco - I hope you’ve stocked your bunker for the impending Trumpocalypse. He’s no less a 1980s Master of the Universe than the doughty Sherman McCoy. There are some brilliant stories of his golf game, such as his ball ‘reappearing’ from the artificial lake due to ‘wave action.’ When I heard this, I said ‘that man’s really got balls - many of them quite suspect.’
@Hello303 - Yeah, the Moral Argument is terminally problematic for the atheist position (for I was that soldier). And the parameters and functions of science, and what the scientific method can necessarily adjudicate upon, are not at all understood by the more dilettantish cohort, who mistake emotion & hysteria for cool, disinterested inquiry. However, classy gents like ssafe are more than capable of taking a nuanced approach, without depending on trammelled polemics and ill-informed invective. Even a rough and ready, take-no-prisoners bruiser like me can learn from that!
May 3rd, 2019
@Hello: Hey, hey, hey. Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
@caesar:
Harry: That’s right, yeah. I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One, people are not wearing enough hats. Two, matter is energy. In the Universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Max: What was that about hats again?
May 3rd, 2019
@caesar O ye of little faith. By the power of Grayskull Trump’s balls were walking on water I tell you.
May 3rd, 2019
(Tips fedora) That’s really stickin’ it to those hatless delinquents. Mr Creosote’s bodily integrity could’ve been maintained, had he just worn a hat. It might’ve contained his togetherness maximally.
May 3rd, 2019
@Rosco - Gravity-defying, ambulatory balls. You might say that I’ve heard it all now.
May 3rd, 2019
He’s been known to walk AND talk his ‘yuge’ balls, believe me. He apparently has the best balls, no one has better (that’s what people are saying).
May 3rd, 2019
“Gravity-defying, ambulatory balls.”
There’s a book that wants to be written.
May 3rd, 2019
Decades old garbage piggybacking on the recent Behe nonsense. Show us the evidence, until then kindly f off.
May 3rd, 2019
Veinous read the book before reviewing, until then kindly f off.
Also this book was published nearly a decade before Behe’s recent work, detective.
May 6th, 2019
There’s no such thing as a soul, no one’s ever measured or seen one. Religions are cults invented by mankind to explain the unexplained. The universe does not need a reason to exist, it simply is. It’s humans who insist on applying reason to everything in the mistaken view that all things must have a meaning or higher purpose. If there is a God then what were the dinosaurs about? They existed for hundreds of millions of years, what exactly was their purpose or legacy? The eye can be easily explained by evolution, it’s existed since the Cambrian, that’s C.500,000,000 years ago - an awful lot of time to perfect.
May 7th, 2019
Dinosaurs were created in 1993 for the documentary “Jurassic Park” - they have since appeared in a subsequent series of documentary films. Their reason, or higher purpose, was to make shedloads of monies for pretend palaeontologist, Steven Spielberg, and a sequence of faceless and genuinely soulless Hollywood executives (their souls have never been measured or observed).
May 8th, 2019
It’s always interesting to read various complaints about Intelligent Design, with the foremost being that it suspends science with “God did it,” when many of its proponents, such as Michael Behe, are actually evolutionists. Their argument is really against naturalism.
May 8th, 2019
Incidentally, this audiobook and Darwin’s Doubt are both available on Hoopla.
May 21st, 2019
Evolutionism is a religion. Down with its fanatical soy boys!
May 29th, 2019
truly a life-changing book. Not a type who would need any proof of Intelligence behind all that. rather just wonder what’s so attractive in Godless/evolution point of view.
If you accept evolution you also accept that your life is completely meaningless pointless senseless flapping of a dead matter. Is it really that great to run a pointless life?
August 7th, 2019
Intelligent design? What bunk. If you seriously buy into this it’s pretty clear you are afraid of the dark. Deal with it.
September 17th, 2019
What a great book!!! To all that challenges the book please put your evidence on the table.
They say that Christians follow their faith blindly. Well… I have never seen anyone follow something more blindly than atheists following Darwin.
I understand why you don’t want to believe in a God that created the Universe, Sin is too much to give up, but we will all give account one day.
Well done Stephen Meyer, what a well written scientific book!!!
May 31st, 2020
plz seed
i need the book
January 21st, 2026
Anyone tempted by this should really do themselves the huge favour of reading The Blind Watchmaker.
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