Stephen C. Meyer

This article is about the intelligent design advocate. For the rugby player, see Steve Meyer.

Stephen C. Meyer
Born1958 (age 65–66)
EducationWhitworth College (BS)
University of Cambridge
(MPhil, PhD)
Occupations
  • Professor
  • historian
  • author
Known forAdvocacy of intelligent design
TitleDirector of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute
Websitewww.stephencmeyer.org

Stephen Charles Meyer (/ˈmaɪ.ər/; born 1958) is an American historian, author, and former educator. He is an advocate of intelligent design, a pseudoscientific creationist argument for the existence of God.[1][2] Meyer was a founder of the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute (DI),[3] which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement.[4][5][6] Before joining the institute, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. He is a senior fellow of the DI and the director of the CSC.[7]

  1. ^ Boudry, Maarten; Blancke, Stefaan; Braeckman, Johan (December 2010). "Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience" (PDF). The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85 (4): 473–482. doi:10.1086/656904. hdl:1854/LU-952482. PMID 21243965. S2CID 27218269. Article available from Universiteit Gent
  2. ^ Numbers 2006, p. 373; "[ID] captured headlines for its bold attempt to rewrite the basic rules of science and its claim to have found indisputable evidence of a God-like being. Proponents, however, insisted it was 'not a religious-based idea, but instead an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins – one that challenges strictly materialistic views of evolution.' Although the intellectual roots of the design argument go back centuries, its contemporary incarnation dates from the 1980s"
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  4. ^ Forrest, Barbara (May 2007). "Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Inquiry, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2007-08-06. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "Small Group Wields Major Influence in Intelligent Design Debate". ABC News. 2005-11-09. Archived from the original on 2006-02-11.
  6. ^ "ID's home base is the Center for Science and Culture at Seattle's Discovery Institute. Meyer directs the center; former Reagan adviser Bruce Chapman heads the larger institute with input from the Christian supply-sider and former American Spectator owner George Gilder (also a Discovery senior fellow). From this perch, the ID crowd has pushed a "teach the controversy" approach to evolution that closely influenced the Ohio State Board of Education's recently proposed science standards, which would require students to learn how scientists "continue to investigate and critically analyze" aspects of Darwin's theory." Chris Mooney. The American Prospect. December 2, 2002 Survival of the Slickest: How anti-evolutionists are mutating their message. Retrieved on 2008-07-23
  7. ^ "Biography". stephencmeyer.org.