Author: Stephen C. Meyer

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 3, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
appearance of design, Atheism, Big Bang, Breaking the Spell, Charles Darwin, complex specified information, cosmic lottery, cosmological constant, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, design argument, Edwin Hubble, exploring the string landscape, fine tuning, fine tuning of initial conditions, Fred Hoyle, God hypothesis, immanent designer, inflationary cosmological model, inflaton field, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, laws of physics and chemistry, Mount Rushmore, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, New Atheism, Occam’s Razor, origin of the universe, random variation, resonance state in carbon-12, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, string theory, The God Delusion, the nones, Theism, transcendent designer, universe-generating mechanisms}

Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes?

_{Stephen C. Meyer

August 3, 2022

Faith and Science}

In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design at the origin of life, in the origin of plants and animals, and from the fine tuning of the laws and constants of chemistry and the initial conditions of the universe. He connects all this to the scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning—the Big Bang. What about the main materialistic alternative for explaining this suite of evidence—the idea that there is a multiverse with our universe just being one of the lucky universes with Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 1, 2022}

James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports

_{Stephen C. Meyer

August 1, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved sits down with Cambridge-trained philosopher of science Stephen Meyer to hear some exciting news about the newly active James Webb space telescope, a telescope dramatically more powerful than the already extraordinarily powerful Hubble space telescope. The James Webb telescope was launched by NASA last Christmas and has begun returning a stream of dramatic images. As Meyer explains, thanks to Webb we can now see farther into the distant universe than ever before, and the farther a telescope can see, the further into the past it can see. The James Webb telescope can see far enough to witness galaxies from the very early universe. Meyer says what Webb is revealing, and what Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 15, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science}

Dr. Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 15, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved sits down with bestselling science author Stephen Meyer to discuss the Marvel movie Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Medved isn’t wild about the film, but he uses it as a springboard to dive into what he calls “the madness of the multiverse”—namely, the proposals in physics and cosmology for the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Meyer explains some of the early motivations among twentieth-century physicists and cosmologists for proposing a multiverse. Then he turns to what he says is the main driver for interest in the multiverse in our day—a desire to explain away something that is deeply puzzling on the grounds of atheism, Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 13, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science}

Stephen Meyer — God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 13, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and radio host Michael Medved discuss some hit videos featuring Meyer that explore the increasingly strong scientific case for intelligent design and for the idea that the universe is the product of a transcendent mind. In their discussion, Meyer and Medved focus on how evidence of a cosmic beginning supports Judeo-Christian theism, and how the Judeo-Christian faith undergirded the birth of science. The Stephen Meyer videos that Medved spotlights now have more than 10 million views altogether. You can find them all here.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, Andrew Klavan, Andrew Klavan Show, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Christianity, contingency, Edwin Hubble, fine tuning, foundations of modern science, God hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian worldview, laws of physics, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, multiverse, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Theism, Theology, Thomas Nagel}

Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future Stephen Meyer sits down with talk show host and bestselling novelist Andrew Klavan to discuss Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis. In this fast-paced conversation the pair touch on the Judeo-Christian roots of science, how fine tuning in physics and cosmology point to intelligent design, and how a great many scientists held out hope that the universe was eternal and therefore did not require a creator, but eventually threw in the towel as evidence mounted for a cosmic beginning. What about the multiverse hypothesis as an escape for atheists wishing to explain away the evidence for a cosmic designer? Meyer explains why it fails Occam’s Razor, and then he and Klavan discuss a noted atheist Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 20, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Alexander Vilenkin, Atheism, Big Bang, Boltzmann brain problem, boundary constraints, cosmic beginning, Deepak Chopra, epistemological chaos, fine tuning, Hartle-Hawking Model, Intelligent Design, John Leslie, John Searle, Lawrence Krauss, laws of physics, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, mind-body dualism, monism, nothingness, panpsychism, Pantheism, physicalism, prime reality, pure mathematics, quantum cosmology, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Schrödinger equation, singularity, Stephen C. Meyer, The Mystery of Existence, Theism, universal wave function, Universe from Nothing, Wheeler-DeWitt equation, Who Designed the Designer}

Pt. 4: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 20, 2021

Faith and Science}

This ID the Future wraps up a lively four-part series between religious skeptic Michael Shermer and Return of the God Hypothesis author and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer. Here Meyer underscores the fact that every worldview must posit something as the prime reality, and he argues that positing mind (rather than matter) as the prime reality solves far more problems in science, and not just in origins science. What about the idea of a multiverse to explain the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics? Meyer concedes that this is a solution of sorts, but it comes at a tremendous cost, which he explains. That’s just a taste of where Meyer and Shermer go in this final segment. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 17, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
alien life, Atheism, Big Bang, deism, extra-terrestrial life, fine tuning, Francis Crick, front-loaded, Intelligent Design, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, Natural Theology, origin of life, origin of the universe, panspermia, Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Shermer’s Last Law, skepticism, Stephen C. Meyer, The Big Picture, Theism, theology of nature}

Pt. 3: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 17, 2021

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and skeptic Michael Shermer address the question of how a divine immaterial being could act in the material world to design and fashion things such as the first life. Meyer argues that while we don’t know precisely how an immaterial mind would do this or did do this, we have good evidence that minds can and do affect matter, as for instance in the evidence that our minds can affect our brains and, by extension, our bodies. Meyer and Shermer also discuss the idea of front-loaded intelligent design—that is, where God loaded into the moment of the Big Bang everything necessary for the emergence of stars, planets, Earth, Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 15, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abductive reasoning, Alvy Singer, Alvy’s Error, Annie Hall, Atheism, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, freedom, God, God hypothesis, Harold J. Berman, Intelligent Design, James Davison Hunter, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, moral absolutes, moral argument for God, moral objectivism, moral relativism, Morality, Naturalism, nature red in tooth and claw, Origin of the Species, Paul Nedelisky, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Science and the Good, skepticism, sociobiology, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism, Woody Allen}

Pt. 2: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 15, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future continues a lively and cordial conversation between atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this segment of the four-part series, Shermer and Meyer discuss a fourth argument for theism, the moral law within. Then they discuss the similarities and differences between inferring design for something like the Rosetta Stone versus inferring intelligent design from the information in DNA or the fine tuning of the universe. The interview is reposted here by permission of Michael Shermer.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 13, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Allen Sandage, Altenberg 16, Atheism, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Keating, confirmation bias, Darrel Falk, Eugene Koonin, exotic naturalism, fine tuning, fine tuning of the universe, Francis Crick, God and the Astronomers, Günter Bechly, imaginary time, James Tour, Materialism, metaphysical hypotheses, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, multiverse, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, oscillating universe model, panspermia, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, RNA World hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, skepticism, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, theistic evolution}

Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 13, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the first part of a lively and cordial conversation between host and atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this first of the four-part series, the two touch on everything from Meyer’s three key lines of evidence for theism to a quick flyover of less well-known materialistic origins theories, including the oscillating universe model, panspermia as an explanation for the origin of the first life on earth, and Stephen Hawking’s idea of imaginary time. Meyer lumps many of these ideas under what he terms exotic naturalism and suggests that the atheists who defend these explanations are multiplying exotic Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 21, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alvin Plantinga, anthropic coincidences, Atheism, Bayesian probability calculus, ChroniclesofStrength.com, epistemology, evolutionary theory, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, metaphysics, Michael Ruse, multiverse, Naturalism, New Atheists, origins science, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Theism, Tim McGrew, universe-generating machine}

Pat Flynn, Stephen Meyer, and the Return of the God Hypothesis, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 21, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, Pat Flynn continues his conversation with bestselling author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The focus is Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and here in the second and final part of their conversation, Flynn and Meyer discuss the beginning of the universe, the multiverse hypothesis, worldview bias, Bayesian probability calculus, methodological materialism, and specific scientific predictions that intelligent design thinking has motivated. This interview is presented here with permission of philosopher and YouTuber Pat Flynn.