Stephen C. Meyer On DNA

Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell

(New York: Harper One; 2009), p. 17.

ʻThough the discovery of the information-bearing properties of DNA dates back over a half century, the recognition of the full significance of this discovery has been slow in coming.

Many scientists have found it difficult to relinquish an exclusive reliance upon the scientific categories of matter and energy alone.

As George Williams (himself an evolutionary biologist) notes, “Evolutionary biologists have failed to realize that they work with two more or less incommensurable domains: that of information and that of matter. . . .

The gene is a package of information, not an object. The pattern of base pairs in a DNA molecule specifies the gene.

But the DNA molecule is the medium, it's not the message.”ʼ

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