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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
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.

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 22, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
age of the universe, Albert Einstein, anthropic fine tuning, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, Edwin Hubble, entropy, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning of the expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning problem, fine-tuning of the proton-neutron mass difference, Hallmarks of Science, Intelligent Design, Materialism, methodological materialism, Naturalism, origin of life, origin of the universe, proton-neutron mass difference, second law of thermodynamics}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

_{Eric Hedin

March 22, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future host Eric Anderson continues his conversation with physicist and Canceled Science author Eric Hedin. Here Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. He and Anderson also review some startling cases of fine-tuning for life and why a “theory of everything” would not solve the fine-tuning problem for atheists but merely move it back to the theory of everything itself. Also in today’s conversation, a highly accessible flyover of how scientists came to realize that the universe wasn’t eternal but had had a beginning. Hedin also tackles a theological poser: If the universe was designed for life, why did the designer Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Atheism, Cambridge University Press, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, evolutionary theory, Harvest House Publisher, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Materialism, No Free Lunch, Phillip Johnson, philosophical materialism, Science and faith, scientific revolutions, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, Walter Bradley, Winston Ewert}

Bill Dembski Teases the 2021 Dallas ID Conference

_{William A. Dembski

February 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski talks with host Robert Crowther about his return to the intelligent design arena and what he’s been up to during his time away from the front lines of the ID movement. He also gives a sneak preview of the talk he plans to give at this Saturday’s Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. The February 20 conference is open to both in-person and live online attendance. To learn more about this exciting event, and to register, go here.

3d rendering of pink jellyfish floating in the dark blue ocean background with sunlight.

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Date
November 9, 2020

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, consciousness, emergent property, epiphenomena, Evolution, final causes, genetic mutations, God, idealism, instinct, Intelligent Design, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, meta-cognitive, Natural Selection, organizing principles, panpsychism, philosophical materialism, pre-meditation, random mutations, randomness, self-reflection, teleology, What Darwin Got Wrong}

The Evolution (or not) of Consciousness

_{November 9, 2020

Neuroscience and Mind}

On this ID the Future neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? This is a guest episode borrowed with permission from Mind Matters, a podcast of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

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Author
John Lennox

Date
November 2, 2020

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Against the Tide, Atheism, DNA, explanatory power, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, Gospel of John, image of God, imago dei, Intelligent Design, James Watson, Kevin Sorbo, logos, Materialism, Miller-Urey, Naturalism, panspermia, Philosophy, Psalm 19, Richard Dawkins, Scientism, sequence hypothesis, Theism, Thomas Nagel, worldviews}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Scientism

_{John Lennox

November 2, 2020

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, host Stephen Meyer concludes his three-part conversation with Oxford mathematician and philosopher John Lennox on Lennox’s new film Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. Science depends on word, on logos, says Lennox, meaning the rational intelligibility of the universe. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, wished to disprove the need for God, but the language of DNA has turned out to be a signpost to an intelligence, Lennox comments, a logos, behind nature. Scientists still claim authority to pronounce against theism, but according to Lennox, such pronouncements come not from science but from a dogma known as scientism. Far from being “science vs. God,” it’s really a collision of competing worldviews. All Read More ›

CAMBRIDGE, UK - JANUARY 18, 2015: Clare college inner yard view

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Author
John Lennox

Date
October 28, 2020

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
2084, Abolition of Man, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christopher Hitchens, John Polkinghorne, Kevin Sorbo, Larry Taunton, Lawrence Krauss, laws of nature, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, Naturalism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, New Atheists, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, Robert E. D. Clark, Sam Harris, Scientism, Stephen Hawking, The Blind Watchmaker, Theism, Thomas Nagel, University of Cambridge}

John Lennox and Steve Meyer Against the Tide, Pt. 1

_{John Lennox

October 28, 2020

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Oxford University mathematician and thinker John Lennox begin a three-part conversation about Lennox’s upcoming documentary, Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. As Lennox explains, he grew up as the child of a uniquely non-sectarian Christian family in Northern Ireland, with parents who encouraged him to question broadly, read widely, and respect every person as a creature made in the image of God. He tells of his encounters with C. S. Lewis at Cambridge University, relates a humorous story in which atheist Peter Atkins gave him the title of one of his books, and describes his front-row seat as he watched the scientific atheism of the 1960s transform into Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 21, 2020

Categorized
Culture, Ethics

Tagged
__edited, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Determinism, Eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, Free Will, imperialism, Margaret Sanger, Materialism, nature vs. nurture, scientific racism, The Descent of Man}

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

_{Richard Weikart

September 21, 2020

Culture, Ethics}

On this episode of ID the Future, historian and Cal State Stanislaus emeritus professor Richard Weikart speaks with host Michael Keas about the dark history of “scientific” racism. Read More ›