Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. A former geophysicist and college professor, he directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. In 2004, Meyer ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed scientific article advancing intelligent design. Meyer has been featured on a number of national television, radio, and podcast platforms, including The Joe Rogan Experience, Piers Morgan Uncensored, CBS's Sunday Morning, NBC News, ABC News, Good Morning America, Nightline, FOX News Live, and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. He has also been featured in two New York Times front-page stories and has garnered attention in other top-national media. Dr. Meyer's most recent book is Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. He is also author of the New York Times bestseller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design and Signature in the Cell, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. He co-authored the science textbook Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism and co-edited Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique.