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Dr. Stephen C. Meyer's An Investigation of the 'Cambrian Explosion'
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Editor's note: The following information is from the Prologue of Darwin's Doubt.
In his book, Signature in the Cell, Dr. Meyer argued that the genetic instruction encoded within even the simplest cells represents a kind of “digital information.” How did that information, that "code," get there? What caused it? “That cause,” asserts Meyer, “is intelligence or mind.” And therefore, the existence of genetic information suggests a previous programming, a “prior activity of a designing intelligence”. This thesis was substantially ignored by his critics. Instead, he suffered a strawman attack by the Darwin lobby as if he had written a polemic aimed specifically at the popular Darwinian theory. Darwin’s Doubt would eventually issue as Meyer’s response. It is the book, in a sense, brought into existence by Darwinists’ reactive perception of threat against their ill-constructed edifice. They have reason to worry. In the "Clear Thinking" writing we discussed a common attempt to hoodwink: #5 Diversion to another question, to a side issue, or by irrelevant objection. The creation of a strawman is one such diversion. I think we can understand why. The view that genetic DNA-based code is a form of “digital information” is a powerful concept, and we shall be returning to it. Little wonder then that the Darwinists preferred not to discuss this paradigm-shattering new view of how cellular life works.
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