Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

I’ve already critiqued the scientific basis of this particular version of theistic evolution. I did so—in effect—in Chapters 9 and 10, and more fully in my previous books, by showing that neither mutation and natural selection nor other evolutionary mechanisms possess the creative power to generate the specified or functional information needed to produce the first life or subsequent major morphological innovations in the history of life. In contrast, our uniform and repeated experience has shown that intelligent agents can and do produce such information, including information in a digital form. Thus, I argued that intelligent design provides a better, more causally adequate explanation for the origin of the information necessary for the origin and development of life than either biological or chemical evolutionary processes.