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|  | Author: Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher: HarperOne
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ISBN: 0061472786
Dewey Decimal Number: 113.8
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 zzzzz October 1, 2009
Rod Steel (Portland, OR)
16 out of 68 found this review helpful
Another tired ID book. I take offense that this book appeared in the category of 'Science'. People who think this is science would do well to take a few science courses.
 A Great Book September 29, 2009
Ratonis (Lincoln, Nebraska)
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
"Signature In The Cell" is simply a great book. By that I mean: (1) It makes its case with carefully constructed arguments; (2) It supports its case with substantial evidences; (3) It informs the reader on the larger issues of scientific methods and the nuances of science; (4) The author's tone toward those who would oppose his thesis is consistently courteous and intellectually respectful, even while offering refutation to their arguments; (5) It is well-written, and while dealing with some very intricate aspects of science, the text always keeps the general reader in view; (5) Offers a very interesting historical perspective on scientific inquiry and discovery.
This book is rich in information, personal reflections, and logical analysis. I find the claim, made by one of the negative reviewers here, that the author has not studied science to be a statement of either insistent ignorance or panic concerning a presentation that frightens him/her. I would recommend readers to read Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion," which criticizes ID, and this book, then decide which author is appealing more to one's intelligence and more to one's emotions.
 Better explanation than Dawkins September 28, 2009
R. Jones
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
When Ben Stein pressed Richard Dawkins for an evolutionist answer to how life first began on earth. Richard Dawkins' best response was that aliens had placed the first cells on earth. He also dogmatically insisted that these aliens, which he admits he never saw, had evolved and were not produced by intelligent Design.
We're supposed to accept this as science because it comes from an evolutionist.
Evolutionist are more biased by the need to prove God doesn't exist than Myers is by the need to prove God does exist.
Enthralling, a delightful read that will captivate readers. September 26, 2009
Yen L. Condeelis (USA)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
An extraordinary book brilliantly disputing a powerful riposte to atheist mockery with biological blue prints and historical authenticity Meyer silences evolutionary theories. Meyer is also in a new released DVD available at amazon.com "Darwin's Dilemma".
Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? If it looks desgned, maybe it is.
"Signature in the Cell" is a must read you will love.
A Magisterial Argument September 25, 2009
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. (Colorado USA)
30 out of 38 found this review helpful
One could not ask for more in a philosophy of science treatise that what we find in "The Signature in the Cell." The book is no less than magisterial, an adjective that curmudgeons such as myself seldom use. At every level--philosophical, scientific, historical and literary--it is a superb treatise. Reading every word of its 508 pages of text (not counting endnotes)--as I did--repays the reader greatly.
Meyer thoroughly examines a most significant topic--how life came about--and does so in an engaging, warm, and philosophically rigorous fashion. (Few books ever do such a thing.) In fact, I have never read a book that goes so deep while remaining so welcoming to the reader. It does do by using a minimal narrative structure--there is no obtrusive autobiography here--to guide us through the issues and arguments pertaining to the nature and origin life at the genetic level. The reader is lead step-by-step into the question of the origin of biological information, and so receives a hearty education in the history of science in general and the scientific question to understand life itself.
Meyer doggedly pursues all the possible explanations for the informational nature in DNA and RNA. He carefully explores the philosophy of scientific explanations with respect to unrepeatable events in the past (such as the origin of life on earth). It is a search for clues in the present to explain the past. One needs a causally adequate explanation for past events relies on known features to produce the state of affairs in question. Having found all the materialistic explanations desperately wanting, he concludes that intelligence is the best explanation for the highly concentrated, amazingly complex, and carefully specified information in the DNA and RNA of the cell. Neither chance nor natural law nor a combination of both are remotely plausible explanations. Yet everyday we perceive that intelligence produces information (such as the words of this review). Nothing else can. Meyer argues convincingly that materialism cannot survive when biology enters "the information age," as it did in 1953 when the double helix structure of the DNA was discovered by two atheists, Crick and Watson.
Critics who dismiss this book as merely religiously motivated should themselves be dismissed. Meyer appeals to no uniquely religious assumptions in his philosophy of science and uses principles broadly employed in the historical sciences. Moreover, while his conclusion--life is best explained by a designing intelligence of some kind--is friendly toward theism, he grants that it does not give us a full Christian account of existence.
This short review cannot praise adequately all the philosophical, scientific, and (yes) literary values of this magnificent work. Its publication may prove to be a decisive moment for the Intelligent Design movement.
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