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Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating, Pt. 2

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Stephen C. Meyer
April 19, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future continues (by permission) the long-form conversation between Stephen Meyer, author of the newly released USA Today bestseller Return of the God Hypothesis, and UC-San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Here in part two the conversation turns to quantum cosmology, multiverse hypotheses, Stephen Hawking, and Hawking’s now-you-see-it/now-you-don’t use of imaginary time to deny a cosmic beginning. Meyer argues that Hawking’s imaginary-time trick doesn’t wash, there remains powerful evidence for a cosmic beginning, and that this beginning is best explained as the creation act of an intelligent, immaterial being. Also, Keating and Meyer tackle the question: Did Isaac Newton really blunder by invoking a God of the gaps to periodically tweak the solar system to smooth out perturbations? That is, was Newton led Read More ›

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William Dembski on the Gilmore & Glahn Show, Pt. 1

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William A. Dembski
April 16, 2021}

On this ID the Future from the vault, philosopher and mathematician William Dembski is on the Gilmore & Glahn Show, where he discusses with John Gilmore the theory of, and science behind, his book Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information. Dembski also discusses the sparks that flew when he spoke at a seminar at the University of Chicago, and what he views as the greatest weakness of Darwinian evolution.

Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics and Jeremy England

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Brian Miller
April 14, 2021}

In today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller discusses fellow physicist Jeremy England’s book Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origin of Living Things. Has England made a significant step toward solving the mystery of how life first began? In Miller’s conversation with host Eric Anderson, he argues that while England’s laboratory work is fascinating and innovative, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life, so much so that the experiments do not shed the kind of light on the mystery of life’s origin that some may hope they do. Moreover, life does certain crucial things with energy that are unknown outside of the biological realm, Miller says, and Read More ›

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating, Pt. 1

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Stephen C. Meyer
April 12, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, the first part of a long-form conversation between Stephen Meyer, author of the newly released Return of the God Hypothesis, and Brian Keating, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Do the laws of cosmology, physics, and biology exhibit dispositive evidence of a cosmic designer? Do the Big Bang and fine tuning suggest a “Mind” behind it all? In the book and in this conversation Meyer argues yes. Keating tells what he likes about the new book and draws on his deep knowledge of cosmology to press Meyer with some great followup questions. Check out Keating’s website here, and Read More ›

Darwin in Kindergarten: Brought to You by the National Science Foundation

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Sarah Chaffee
April 9, 2021}

On this ID the Future from the vault, Sarah Chaffee describes taxpayer-funded research exploring the most effective ways to pre-condition young minds to accept neo-Darwinism. The National Science Foundation awarded Boston University a grant of just under $1.5 million for their project, “Evolving Minds in Early Elementary School: Foundations for a Learning Sequence on Natural Selection Using Stories.” Listen in.

Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer on the Return of the God Hypothesis

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Stephen C. Meyer
April 7, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, a recent conversation between radio show host Michael Medved and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer as they discuss Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. Listen in as Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, provides a swift flyover of 500 years of scientific history, in which he traces the rise, fall, and rise again of a paradigm Meyer refers to as “the God hypothesis.” To learn more about Meyer’s new book and see the growing list of enthusiastic reviews from top scientists, go to ReturnoftheGodHypothesis.com.

Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells

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Rob Stadler
April 5, 2021}

On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Rob Stadler, co-author with Change Tan of The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check. The topic of discussion–protocells. Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution. He further notes that this is widely acknowledged in the origin-of-life community, but those committed to a purely materialistic origin of the first life have a fallback explanation–protocells. That is, early biological structures far simpler than anything we find today. An intriguing hypothesis, but the problems with it, according to Stadler, are legion. Tune in as Stadler and Anderson walk through several lines of evidence that appear to Read More ›

Outnumbered: Stephen Meyer Debates a Chemist and a Biologist

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Stephen C. Meyer
April 1, 2021}

Stephen Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, is now in bookstores — online and in stores. To celebrate, IDTF is pleased to offer this classic Dr. Meyer debate. Darwinists are often reluctant to debate advocates of intelligent design, but here are two who deserve a tip of the hat. Keith Pannell is a chemist at the University of Texas-El Paso who hosts Science Studio, a program on the NPR station there. He invited Meyer on to talk about the science of ID. Pannell is an ID critic, so kudos to him for being willing to have a civil and informative conversation with a leading ID proponent. Pannell also invited a biologist colleague, Ricardo Bernal, to tag-team with him. Read More ›

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

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Eric Hedin
March 29, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See with a focus on the book’s look at our privileged planet Earth, and how its location in the galaxy and solar system, as well as various unusual features, makes it strikingly fit for life. Is it just “dumb luck,” as one scientist put it? Host Eric Anderson continues his multi-part conversation with the book’s author, Biola physics professor Eric Hedin, who suggests that “dumb luck” is more of a cop-out than an explanation, and that when one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. It’s just a taste of the Read More ›

Physicist John Bloom: Cosmic Design and the Big Bang

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John Bloom
March 26, 2021}

In celebration of Return of the God Hypothesis, ID the Future is pleased to feature this classic episode with physicist John Bloom, a CSC Fellow and professor at Biola University. Here he explains some of the exciting evidence of design from physics and cosmology, evidence unknown a century ago. If this subject intrigues you, take a look at the new book from philosopher of science and bestselling author Stephen Meyer—Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe.

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