Editing Stephen C. Meyer (section)

{{short description|American author, educator and advocate of intelligent design creationism}}
{{about|the intelligent design advocate|the rugby player|Steve Meyer}}
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| name               = Stephen C. Meyer
| image              = Stephen C Meyer.jpg
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| birth_date         = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place        = United States
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| known              = Advocacy of [[intelligent design]]
| title              = Director of the [[Center for Science and Culture]] at the [[Discovery Institute]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Professor|historian|author}}
| website            = {{URL|stephencmeyer.org}}
| education          = [[Whitworth College]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[University of Cambridge]]<br />([[MPhil]], [[PhD]])
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'''Stephen Charles Meyer''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|aɪ|.|ər}}; born 1958) is an American historian, author, and former educator. He is an advocate of [[intelligent design]], <!--Do not change or remove the word "pseudoscientific" without reaching consensus on the talk page first-->a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] [[creationism|creationist]] argument for the [[existence of God]].<ref name="Boudry 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Boudry |first1=Maarten |author-link1=Maarten Boudry |last2=Blancke |first2=Stefaan |last3=Braeckman |first3=Johan |author-link3=Johan Braeckman |date=December 2010 |title=Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience |journal=[[The Quarterly Review of Biology]] |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=473–482 |doi=10.1086/656904 |pmid=21243965|url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482/file/6828579.pdf |hdl=1854/LU-952482 |s2cid=27218269 }} Article available from [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482 Universiteit Gent]</ref>{{sfn|Numbers|2006|p=373|ps=; "[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"}} Meyer was a founder of the [[Center for Science and Culture]] (CSC) of the [[Discovery Institute]] (DI),<ref name="wilgoren" /> which is the main organization behind the [[intelligent design movement]].<ref name="ForrestMayPaper">{{Cite url|last=Forrest |first=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Forrest |date=May 2007 |title=Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals. A Position Paper from the Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy |url=http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |url-status=dead |publisher=Center for Inquiry, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306235154/https://centerforinquiry.org/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |archive-date=2019-03-06 |access-date=2007-08-06 |place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1297170|title=Small Group Wields Major Influence in Intelligent Design Debate|date=2005-11-09|work=ABC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211101723/https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1297170|archive-date=2006-02-11}}</ref><ref>"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 [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=survival_of_the_slickest Survival of the Slickest: How anti-evolutionists are mutating their message]. Retrieved on 2008-07-23</ref>  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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.stephencmeyer.org/biography.php|title=Biography|publisher=stephencmeyer.org}}</ref>