“WORLD’s 12th annual Daniel of the Year does not save lives abroad, as Britain’s Caroline Cox and Sudan’s Michael Yerko do. Nor does he regularly save lives of the unborn, as Florida’s Wanda Cohn does through her pregnancy center work. No, Stephen C. Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, fights to show that those lives have eternal value because they are the work of a Creator and not the product of chance.
This fall Meyer came out with a full account of what science has learned in recent decades: Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (Harper One, 2009) shows that the cell is incredibly complex and the code that directs its functions wonderfully designed. His argument undercuts macroevolution, the theory that one kind of animal over time evolves into a very different kind. Meyer thus garners media scorn for raining on this year’s huge celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin 200 years ago and the publication of On the Origin of Species 150 years ago….” Read More