Author: Stephen C. Meyer

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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.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 16, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alexander Vilenkin, apologetics, beginning of universe, Big Bang, boundary constraints, Brief History of Time, fine tuning, Francis Beckwith, idealism, imaginary time, Intelligent Design, Logan Gage, Materialism, multiverse, Platonism, quantum cosmology, Return of the God Hypothesis, River Forest Thomism, singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Theism, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, universal wave function, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer Talk Thomism and Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 16, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen C. Meyer sits down with podcaster and philosopher Pat Flynn to discuss Meyer’s new book. Flynn notes that some contemporary followers of the great medieval Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas argue that the theory of intelligent design is incompatible with Thomism. In response Meyer, a philosopher of science and the director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, points out that some Thomists are fully on board with ID, and he offers reasons why he sees ID as fully compatible with Thomistic philosophy. Flynn and Meyer then move into a discussion of Meyer’s new book with a particular focus on the sections exploring the beginning of the universe Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 9, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, education, extraterrestrials, faith, history of science, Intelligent Design, loss of faith, Marc Bernier, medicine, Nazi, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, scientific revolution}

Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 9, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, listen to host Marc Bernier ask Stephen Meyer perceptive and wide-ranging questions about everything from the possibility of extraterrestrials, to the role of intelligent design in medicine and education, to meaning and the reliability of the mind. The discussion also turns to Meyer’s bestselling new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and the reconciliation of science and faith. At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects,” and in reply Meyer talks about his personal experience grappling with the relationship between science and faith, and tells about a warning he used to give college students in a class he taught. This interview originally appeared on The Marc Bernier Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 2, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Allan Sandage, argument from ignorance, beginning of the universe, Biological Information, Brian Josephson, Brian Keating, causal adequacy, complex specified information, Cosmological Argument, Evolution, fine tuning, God, God hypothesis, God of the gaps argument, Henry Quastler, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, mind-brain, origin of life, Robert Jastrow, teleological argument, Thomas Aquinas}

Return of the God Hypothesis: Q&A with Stephen Meyer, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 2, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future Stephen Meyer continues fielding questions about his new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. The occasion was a live Zoom event for people who had pre-ordered the book. Daniel Reeves emceed, and here in the second part, Meyer rebuts the objection that intelligent design is an argument from ignorance. He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains and yet Meyer seems to infer a non-embodied mind as the explanation for the design of life and the universe. Meyer also lists some prominent scientists who have either endorsed the book or championed key arguments in the book. Meyer is the Director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 26, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
beginning of universe, Big Bang, Biological Information, Darwin’s Doubt, Darwinism, developmental gene regulatory network, divine intervention, DNA, embryonic lethals, Eric Davidson, Evolution, fine tuning, hierarchically arranged information, integrated circuit, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, J. Scott Turner, Materialism, Neo-Darwinism, scientific revolution, stacked information systems, teleology}

Return of the God Hypothesis: Q&A with Stephen Meyer, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 26, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future Stephen C. Meyer fields questions about Return of the God Hypothesis*, his new bestselling book from HarperOne. The occasion was a live Zoom event for people who had pre-ordered the book. Daniel Reeves emceed, and in his introductory conversation with Meyer the two discuss a colorful tidbit about Meyer’s time at Cambridge University when he was working on his PhD. Turns out we may have Meyer’s wife to thank for him still possessing the ability to write such a probing book. In the Q&A Meyer summarizes the thesis of the book and then takes questions—everything from how evolutionists explain, or fail to explain, the pattern of stacked information in living things to what’s the object Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 10, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
action at a distance, Atheism, Big Bang, Biological Information, constant spirit action, deism, fine tuning, General Scholium, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, guided evolution, hypothesis non fingo, Intelligent Design, inverse square law, Isaac Newton, mechanical philosophy, multiverse, occult properties, origin of life, Principia Mathematica, quantum cosmology, RNA World hypothesis, scholastic philosophy, scientific revolution, singularity, Theism, theistic evolution, theory of gravity, unguided evolution}

God Hypothesis Returns: Frank Turek and Stephen Meyer Report

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 10, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future episode features excerpts from a lively conversation with Frank Turek as host and Stephen Meyer as guest. The focus: Meyer’s new USA Today bestseller, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe.* The two discuss the new book, and Meyer fields questions from the audience. The conversation originally appeared on Turek’s national radio show, CrossExamined, and the excerpts from that longer interview are used here with permission. (*As an Amazon Associate, Discovery Institute earns from qualifying purchases.)

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 26, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
anthropocentrism, Big Bang, chance hypothesis, cosmology, design hypothesis, divine action, divine extravagance, divine profligacy, fine tuning, genetic code, genetic information, God, Henry Quastler, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, multiverse, Natural Theology, Occam’s Razor, origin of information, origin of life, panspermia, pontentia absoluta, potentia ordinata, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Sean M. Carroll, specified information, teleology, Theism, theodicy, William Dembski}

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating, Pt. 3

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 26, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future concludes the conversation between Stephen Meyer, author of the newly released USA Today bestseller Return of the God Hypothesis, and UC-San Diego physicist Brian Keating. In part three they discuss divine extravagance and the question of why, if the universe was made for humans, did it take so long before humans came onto the scene? From there Meyer turns to the evidence for intelligent design from the digital information embedded in DNA and RNA. Is this book just another intelligent design argument, similar to his previous two books? Meyer says it is that, but it goes further, combining an intelligent design argument with evidence from science outside the scope of ID science in order to draw some inferences about the nature of Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 19, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Big Bang, Boltzmann brains, Brief History of Time, cosmological models, cosmology, fine-tuning, God, Hilbert Space, imaginary time, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, many worlds hypotheses, Materialism, multiverse, New Atheists, philosophy of science, quantum cosmology, quantum theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Schrödinger equation, Science and faith, self-defeating arguments, singularity, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, universal wave function, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

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

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 19, 2021

Intelligent Design}

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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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 12, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Big Bang, Biological Information, circumstantial evidence, cosmological models, cosmology, ensemble of clues, epistemic support, fine-tuning, general revelation, God, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, Materialism, multiverse, New Atheists, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, philosophy of science, purpose, quantum theory, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Science and faith, singularity, special revelation, Stephen C. Meyer, teleology, Theism, universal wave function, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

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

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 12, 2021

Intelligent Design}

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 ›

Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 7, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Atheism, Big Bang, Bill Gates, Biological Information, carbon resonance, Charles Darwin, cosmological constant, cosmology, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, eternal universe, expanding universe model, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning, fine-tuning parameters, founders of science, Fred Hoyle, genetic information, God hypothesis, Goldilocks universe, imago dei, Intelligent Design, intelligibility of nature, Karl Marx, Materialism, Michael Medved, New Atheists, nihilism, origins, philosophical materialism, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Sigmund Freud, Signature in the Cell, steady state model, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism}

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

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 7, 2021

Intelligent Design}

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.