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

by Stephen C. Meyer

The testimony of one of the scientists who held this latter view particularly stood out. Professor Dean Kenyon was an authority on chemical evolutionary theory and the scientific study of the origin of life. He held a PhD in biophysics from Stanford, had done research at NASA, and had published numerous scientific papers on the origin of life. In 1969, he also coauthored a seminal book on the topic titled Biochemical Predestination, a book that by 1985 had established itself as the bestselling advanced-level text on chemical evolutionary theory. In Biochemical Predestination, Kenyon and his coauthor, Gary Steinman, argued that life might have arisen as crucial protein molecules first “self-organized” without assistance from DNA as the result of purely natural forces of chemical attraction between the smaller amino-acid subunits out of which proteins are made.