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Stephen C. Meyer

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August 3, 2022

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Faith and Science

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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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Stephen C. Meyer

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June 15, 2022

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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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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 13, 2022

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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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William A. Dembski

Date
May 2, 2022

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Faith and Science

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1 Corinthians, Atheism, birth of science, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darwinism, definition of faith, definition of science, Evolution, faith, fall of man, Galileo, God, God of creation, God of redemption, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Johannes Kepler, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, natural philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of science, Science, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Scientism, self-refuting claims, Theism, Theology, tree of the knowledge of good and evil, trust, truth, William Dembski}

William Dembski on Scientism, Science, and Christian Faith

_{William A. Dembski

May 2, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher William Dembski and host Casey Luskin explore the relationship between science and faith. What is science? What is faith? How does Christianity define faith? Dembski explains that faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition is not the opposite of reason; at the same time, faith possesses a relational component—trust in a just, gracious, and reasonable God—that goes beyond mere assent to propositions. As for science, Dembski describes it as a careful search for truths about the natural world, including truths about key elements such as the birth of our fine-tuned universe and the origin of living things. Dembski says that he is convinced that scientific discoveries, unshackled from atheistic blinders, point strongly to intelligent design as Read More ›

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John Bloom

Date
January 31, 2022

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Faith and Science

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apologetics, astrology, astronomy, Babylonian astrology, birth of science, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Christianity, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, fall of man, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, gnosticism, history of science, imago dei, Johannes Kepler, John Bloom, Judeo-Christian, laws of nature, monotheism, near eastern studies, Nicolaus Copernicus, paganism, physics, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Theism}

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

_{John Bloom

January 31, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future Biola University physicist John Bloom discusses his chapter in the recent anthology The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by host Casey Luskin. Bloom’s focus in his contributed chapter is the pivotal role of Christianity in the rise of science. Bloom, the academic director of Biola’s master’s program in science and religion, draws on his PhD training in physics but also on his PhD in ancient Near Eastern studies and his study of the history of science. Here he argues that while the Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science, science did not take off, was not born, until a cluster of crucial ideas Read More ›

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Emily Reeves

Date
January 17, 2022

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Faith and Science

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apologetics, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, Daniel Reeves, Denton Bible Church, design optimality, Emily Reeves, Eric Hedin, Evolution, Homology, Intelligent Design, Neo-Darwinism, Ray Bohlin, South Africa, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Meyer, Texas}

Emily Reeves Previews Dallas Science/Faith Conference 2022

_{Emily Reeves

January 17, 2022

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with Emily Reeves, one of the speakers for the January 22, 2022, Dallas Science and Faith Conference. The two walk through the lineup of speakers for the conference (Stephen Meyer, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Ray Bohlin, and others), tease some of the talks, and discuss how to join the one-day event live, either in person in the Dallas area or online. For more about the conference, slated for this Saturday, and to sign up, go here.

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Douglas Axe

Date
December 8, 2021

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Faith and Science

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> Douglas Axe, age of wonder, Alison Gopnik, Atheism, baking cookies, beta-lactamase, Casey Luskin, chance, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, design detection, Design Intuition, dragonflies, enzymes, Evolution, functional enzyme, functional proteins, God, Intelligent Design, Joseph Holden, know-how, Lottery, Mind and Cosmos, Natural Selection, overwhelming improbabilities, Penicillin, protein evolution, protein experiment, protein folding, protein function, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Nagel, Undeniable, William Dembski}

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

_{Douglas Axe

December 8, 2021

Faith and Science}

This ID the Future brings in protein scientist Douglas Axe to discuss his contribution to a new book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Axe and host Casey Luskin discuss Axe’s thinking on the design intuition, the evidence that it’s triggered almost universally in small children when they observe things like dragonflies or fresh-baked cookies, and why he’s convinced that this intuition is a rational one rooted in our true sense of what sorts of things require know-how for their creation. For those who retort “Science!,” Axe has some of that to offer as well. As he tells Luskin, he led an experiment at a lab in Cambridge, England, on the abilities and limits of an enzyme to evolve. The research findings Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2021

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Faith and Science

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apologetics, Atheism, Biological Information, complex specified information, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, CSI, DNA, Evolution, fine tuning, fine-tuned universe, genetic information, God, Intelligent Design, knockout experiments, laws and constants of physics, laws of physics, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Mount Rushmore, Proteins, public evidence, Scientific Evidence, Theism, theistic evolution}

Casey Luskin on Why Intelligent Design is Worth Defending

_{Casey Luskin

November 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Host Eric Anderson interviews one of the anthology’s co-editors and contributors, geologist Casey Luskin. The two focus on just one of Luskin’s contributed essays, one that addresses two primary questions: Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Luskin answers both questions in the affirmative, and explains why he sees the new anthology as a great resource in the cause of intelligent design.

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Norman Stone

Date
October 27, 2021

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Faith and Science}

Norman Stone on His New C.S. Lewis Movie, The Most Reluctant Convert

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October 27, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, award-winning British producer and director Norman Stone joins host John West to discuss Stone’s new biopic on C.S. Lewis, The Most Reluctant Convert. The freewheeling conversation covers a wide range of topics, including Lewis’s view of science, the problems of reductionist science, Lewis’s attraction to and rejection of the occult (and the strange connection between the occult and scientific materialism), Bertrand Russell’s atheism, the women in C.S. Lewis’s life (not just Joy Gresham), and even the strange fate of C.S. Lewis’s old rooms in Oxford (you’ll never guess what’s in there now!). Plus, West tries his best to convince Stone that he should do a film version of a certain C.S. Lewis science fiction novel. Read More ›

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Max McLean

Date
October 18, 2021

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Albert Lewis, apologetics, argument from undesign, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christian conversion, CSLewismovie.com, Darwinism, Dymer, Fellowship for Performing Arts, Further Up and Further In, idealism, John G. West, Max McLean, Narnia, origin of reason, Owen Barfield, Pilgrim’s Regress, problem of pain, Shaodowlands, Surprised by Joy, The Great Divorce, The Magician’s Twin, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Theism, World War I}

Max McLean Talks about His New C.S. Lewis Movie

_{Max McLean

October 18, 2021}

On this ID the Future award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis’s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis’s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis’s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis’s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism—his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis Read More ›