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Uncommon Knowledge

By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge

Hoover Institution

Politics, History, News:politics, Science, News

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Steven Meyer are three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of the universe and everything in it (including us). In this wide-ranging conversation, they point out the flaws in Darwin’s theory and the increasing amount of evidence uncovered by a rigorous application of the scientific method that points to an intentional design and creation of the physical world.

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0:00.0

Who's dead? God or Charles Darwin? Michael B. He, a biochemist, John Lennox, a mathematician,

0:09.1

Stephen Meyer, a geophysicist, filming today in Fiezzoli, Italy. Uncommon knowledge, now.

0:16.2

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. A professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University,

0:31.6

Michael B. He holds an undergraduate degree from Drexel and a doctorate in biochemistry from Penn.

0:37.6

He's the author of a number of books, including Darwin's Black Box. A meritous professor of mathematics

0:44.0

at Oxford, John Lennox grew up in Northern Ireland, earned his undergraduate degree from a manual

0:48.8

college Cambridge, and then went on to earn not one and not two, but three doctorates in an academic

0:55.7

career of astounding distinction. Dr. Lennox is the author of many books, including the 2019 volume,

1:03.2

can science explain everything. A former professor of geophysics at Whitworth College,

1:09.8

Stephen Meyer is now a fellow at the Discovery Institute. He holds a doctorate of the philosophy

1:15.0

of science from Cambridge. Dr. Meyer has published, again, many books, including his 2013 volume

1:21.0

on the fossil record, Darwin's Doubt. Michael, John, and Steve, welcome. First question.

1:31.2

Darwin versus Einstein. Einstein publishes the special theory of relativity in 1905,

1:38.0

and in the 12ish decades since that publication, one observation after another has tended to confirm

1:45.4

his work. Just a decade ago, scientists found clocks on satellites and elliptical orbits kept

1:51.4

time just about as Einstein would have predicted. Over time, to put it crudely, Einstein has become

1:57.8

easier and easier to believe. Darwin publishes on the origin of the species in 1859,

2:06.8

briefly, as was true of Einstein, also of Darwin, has he become easier and easier to believe,

2:15.4

Michael? Now, the opposite, the opposite, John. The exact opposite. Stephen. The theory has been

2:21.9

progressively disconfirmed by multiple observations in multiple subdisciplines of biology.

2:27.6

All right. All three of you come out swinging. Gentlemen, you're about to take a layman

2:32.4

through three problems with Darwin that the last few decades have turned up.

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