Great new book by Stephen Meyer on intelligent design

Began reading Stephen Meyer's new book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design this week. It's a really excellent examination of the "goodness" of various scientific theories (including intelligent design) of the origin of life. Dr. Meyer articulates the various principles that are used by historical scientists (such as cosmologists, paleontologists, geologists, etc.) to evaluate the "goodness" of theories of past events. He then applies these principles to various theories which try to account for how the process of gene expression arose as part of the origin of life.

The very least that one can conclude upon reading the book is that he has taken the ground right from under the feet of a certain type of scientific bigot. That is, one comes away from reading the book convinced that the only way one can reject intelligent design as at least a possibly valid explanation for the origin of life is if one has presumed in advance that no valid theory can include intelligent design. Said another way, he's made it very difficult to dogmatically oppose intelligent design as a possible explanation for life's origin while claiming to be an unbiased evaluator of scientific evidence.

I highly recommend the book.