Stephen C. Meyer
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| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) USA |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute and Vice President and Senior Fellow at the DI |
| Known for | Advocate of intelligent design |
| Website | www |
Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958) is an advocate of intelligent design. He helped found the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute (DI), which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. Meyer is currently a Senior Fellow of the DI and Director of its Center for Science and Culture (CSC).
Meyer graduated with a B.S. degree in physics and earth science in 1981 from the Christian Whitworth College and worked as a geophysicist for the Atlantic Richfield Company. Shortly after, Meyer won a scholarship from the Rotary Club of Dallas to study at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Meyer earned his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science in 1991 at the University of Cambridge. His dissertation was entitled "Of clues and causes: A methodological interpretation of origin of life studies." After gaining his Ph.D., Meyer taught philosophy at Whitworth, then at the Christian Palm Beach Atlantic University. Meyer later ceased teaching to devote his time to the intelligent design movement.
Meyer is married and has three children.
Meyer is one of a group of prominent intelligent design (ID) advocates. Meyer's involvement in ID can be traced to his participation in the "Ad Hoc Origins Committee" defending Phillip E. Johnson's Darwin on Trial in 1992 or 1993 (in response to Stephen Jay Gould's review of it in the July 1992 issue of Scientific American), while with the Philosophy department at Whitworth College. He was later a participant in the first formal meeting devoted to ID, hosted at Southern Methodist University in 1992.
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