The DNA Enigma

How did life come to be? This eBook will examine the age-old mystery of the origin of life. Stephen Meyer argues that contemporary molecular biology displays powerful evidence of intelligent design. In particular, the mysterious digital code present in the DNA molecule provides a compelling scientific basis for reformulating the classical argument for design.

Moreover, this eBook shows that the evidence does not point to a distant God—who created the universe and then left it to run on its own—but rather to the God of theism, who not only created the universe but who has also directly interacted with the natural world.

The Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins once wrote that it was “Darwin who made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” According to Dawkins, the design argument had long been the strongest argument for the existence of God. After all, the biological world is rife with complexity, intricacy, and beauty—just the features that humans naturally associate with the activity of a creative Mind.

But Darwin changed all of that. According to Dawkins, Darwin successfully showed that natural selection can mimic the powers of a designing intelligence without itself being guided or directed by an intelligent agent of any kind. Thus, living organisms may look designed, but that appearance is entirely an illusion.