Tag: multiverse

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 3, 2022

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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?

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August 3, 2022

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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
Brian Miller

Date
March 23, 2022

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Albert Einstein, Aristotle, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem, Brian Miller, bubble universes, Casey Luskin, CMBR, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, cosmic background radiation, cosmological constant, cosmology, cyclical universe, Edwin Hubble, eternal inflation, eternal universe, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, general theory of relativity, Georges Lemaître, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, Materialism, multiple universes, multiverse, oscillating universe, quantum cosmology, specified complexity, steady state model, Stephen Hawking, string landscape model, Universe from Nothing, Vesto Slipher, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

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March 23, 2022

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On this ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller looks at various attempts to evade the mounting evidence that the universe had a beginning, a Big Bang. Miller and host Casey Luskin first review the fascinating history of how the eternal universe model of the nineteenth century gave way to the Big Bang model. Then Miller walks through about a half a dozen attempts to evade a cosmic beginning after the Big Bang model had won the day. These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. According to this model, our universe exists in a multi-dimensional brane (not “brain”) which exists in a higher dimensional space, and our multi-dimensional brane Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 15, 2021

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

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November 15, 2021

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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 13, 2021

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

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September 13, 2021

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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

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

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June 21, 2021

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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

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

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June 16, 2021

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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
William A. Dembski

Date
May 19, 2021

Tagged
abiogenesis, argument from evil, chance, common descent, conservation of information, Douglas Axe, Evolution, genetic code, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, law of small probability, Miller-Urey experiment, minimal complexity of a cell, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, origin of life, probabilistic resources, replicator, self-reproducing machines, simple life, theistic evolution, universal probability bound}

James Tour Interviews William Dembski, Pt. 2

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May 19, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future again features Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour and intelligent design pioneer William Dembski. Here in Part 2 they discuss information theory, probability theory, the origin of life, evolution, the multiverse hypothesis, and Dembski’s contributions to the theory of intelligent design. Their conversation is borrowed, with permission, from Dr. Tour’s Science & Faith podcast.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 10, 2021

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

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May 10, 2021

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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.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 26, 2021

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

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April 26, 2021

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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

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

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April 19, 2021

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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 ›