Today on ID the Future, the audio prolog for Stephen Meyer's New York Times bestseller, Darwin's Doubt,

the explosion of animal life and the case for intelligent design.

Harper One, publisher of Darwin's Doubt, has just announced plans to make an audiobook version,

and also that there will be an audiobook version of Dr. Meyer's first book,

signature in the Cell,

DNA and the evidence for intelligent design. Here then is Andrew McDermid with the prologue to

Darwin's Doubt. Darwin's Doubt, the explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent

design. By Stephen C. Meyer.

Prolog When people today hear the term information revolution, they typically think of

silicon chips and software code, cellular phones and supercomputers.

They rarely think of tiny one-celled organisms or the rise of animal life.

But while writing these words in the summer of 2012, I'm sitting at the end of a narrow medieval street in Cambridge, England, where more

than a half a century ago a far-reaching information revolution began in biology. This revolution was

launched by an unlikely but now immortalized pair of scientists, Francis Crick

and James Watson. Since my time as a PhD student at Cambridge during the late 1980s, I have been

fascinated by the way their discovery transformed our understanding of the nature of life.

Indeed, since the 1950s, when Watson and Crick first illuminated the chemical structure and information-bearing

properties of DNA, biologists have come to understand that living things, as much as high-tech

devices, depend upon digital information. Information that, in the case of life, is stored in a

four-character chemical code embedded within the twisted figure of a double helix.

Because of the importance of information to living things, it has now become apparent that many

distinct information revolutions have occurred in the history of life. Not revolutions of human

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