Christmas Selection 2022
Stephen C. Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis, joins us for a brief exchange. His book is our Christmas Selection for 2022.
Are there one or two authors that have had an outsized influence on your work overall?
My three favorite authors during my formative years in college were C.S. Lewis, Os Guinness and Francis Shaeffer. I also found Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge and Peter Lipton’s Inference to the Best Explanation formative in my thinking about scientific and religious epistemology. The Mystery of Life’s Origin by Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley and Roger Olson and Evolution a Theory in Crisis by Michael Denton also deeply influenced my thinking about biological origins and questions about design in nature.
Do you have a favorite novel or novelist or fiction genre?
My favorite book is the Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis which is more a piece of imaginative religious fiction than a novel per se. Rather than novels, I typically read biography and my favorite piece of biography is John Adams by David McCullough which happens to read like a novel. I am also currently enjoying the Andrew Roberts biography titled Churchill: Walking with Destiny which also reads like a novel. In addition, I love The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, which is another true story with an extraordinary dramatic element.
Can we expect more books from you in the future?
Yes, but not for a while. My books tend to be extremely long projects that take between two and three years to write and usually only then after many years of research. So for now, I’m content to get the message of my three main books—Signature in the Cell, Darwin’s Doubt and Return of the God Hypothesis—out via campus talks, video shorts, documentaries, podcast interviews and the like.
