Dr. Stephen C. Meyer is director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, based in Seattle. Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University (1991). Previously he worked as a geophysicist with the Atlantic Richfield Company after earning his undergraduate degrees in physics and geology.
A past recipient of a Rotary International Scholarship, the American Friends of Cambridge scholarship and a Templeton Foundation science-religion teaching grant, Dr. Meyer has recently co-written or edited Darwinism, Design, and Public Education (Michigan State University Press) and Science and Evidence of Design in the Universe (Ignatius, 2000).
Meyer has contributed articles to several scholarly books and anthologies including The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy, Of Pandas and People, The Creation Hypothesis and Facets of Faith and Science. He has also authored numerous technical articles as well as editorials in magazines and newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, First Things and National Review.
Dr. Meyer has also appeared as a guest on several television programs including PBS’s “Freedom Speaks” and “TechnoPolitics,” and CNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”
