Does Dr. Stephen C. Meyer Have Evidence for Intelligent Design? (#345)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Is intelligent design a scientific possibility worth exploring? According to today’s guest, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, it is, and he claims he has scientific evidence to prove it! Dr. Stephen C. Meyer is a former geophysicist and college professor who received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. He directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He authored the bestselling books Darwin’s Doubt, Signature in the Cell, and most recently, Return of the God Hypothesis, a book we discuss in depth in our interview. You may be wondering what an advocate of intelligent design is doing on a show with a practicing cosmologist who frequently declares himself to be a devout agnostic and if I, a respected cosmologist, am getting into intelligent design. Well, tune in, and you’ll find out! Let’s get into it! Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) Why Stephen’s work is so controversial (03:21) The level of epistemic support in his evidence (16:03) The origin of the universe (19:36) Stephen Hawkin’s relationship with religion (37:26) Newton and the God of the gaps (47:27) The logistics of intelligent design (54:15) Is intelligent design proof of a Judeo-Christian God? (1:14:52) Outro (1:20:52) — Additional resources: 📚 Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen C. Meyer: https://a.co/d/cYYhMfM 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months. 📝 With a MasterClass annual membership, you can take one-on-one classes from the world’s best for $10 a month with your annual membership, get unlimited access to every class — and even better, right now, as an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off when you go to MASTERCLASS.com/impossible. 🧑‍💻 Visit LinkedIn.com/IMPOSSIBLE to post your job for free! ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you can't absolutely prove the existence of God, but the consequences of denying the existence of God as a theoretical postulate at least is a system of physics which ends up eating its own, which ends up destroying for epistemological reasons,
0:13.3	our ability to rely on our own reasoning capabilities
0:16.4	about the world around us.
0:17.4	So at the end, the choices between God and science
0:20.6	or no God and no science.
0:23.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:35.3	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:37.1	Welcome everybody to this episode of the
0:39.2	Into the Impossible Podcast and today I am joined by a very interesting individual someone I have
0:45.7	spoken about before on the podcast and in my day job as a practicing
0:52.3	cosmologist.
0:54.1	And that is Dr. Stephen Meyer, who is joining us.
0:57.4	He is at the Discovery Institute,
0:59.2	and I will give a proper introduction to him as we go on but the occasion of today's
1:06.0	podcast interview which is years in the making because I've known of his work for many
1:10.6	many years followed him and admired what he does and the role that he plays
1:16.4	in the philosophy of science and even in, as you'll find out, intelligent design. What is this? Keeding, a respected cosmologist is now getting
1:26.7	into intelligent design. Well, you'll find out and as I said in the in Komea that I gave to this new book by our wonderful guest
1:37.3	today called the Return of the God Hypothesis Stephen C Meyer.
1:41.4	He's the author of the breakaway best-selling book
1:45.4	Darwin's Doubt, the signature in the cell, many other books and works of
1:52.3	really outreach and scientific communication.
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