Nice. Prominent philosopher Thomas Nagel--no friend to Christianity--names Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell: DNA and the evidence for Intelligent
Design as one of his books of the year:
Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the evidence for Intelligent
Design (HarperCollins) is a detailed account of the problem of how life came
into existence from lifeless matter – something that had to happen before
the process of biological evolution could begin. The controversy over
Intelligent Design has so far focused mainly on whether the evolution of
life since its beginnings can be explained entirely by natural selection and
other non-purposive causes. Meyer takes up the prior question of how the
immensely complex and exquisitely functional chemical structure of DNA,
which cannot be explained by natural selection because it makes natural
selection possible, could have originated without an intentional cause. He
examines the history and present state of research on non-purposive chemical
explanations of the origin of life, and argues that the available evidence
offers no prospect of a credible naturalistic alternative to the hypothesis
of an intentional cause. Meyer is a Christian, but atheists, and theists who
believe God never intervenes in the natural world, will be instructed by his
careful presentation of this fiendishly difficult problem.
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