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Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, host Peter Robison continues a lively conversation with Douglas Murray, author of The War on the West, Tom Holland, author of Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis. Here in the concluding part of the interview, the four consider English Victorian poet Matthew Arnold’s elegiac depiction of the West bereft of religious faith. What does this retreating “sea of faith” mean in practical terms for Western culture, and what path, if any, is there to a renewal of Western culture? Can we embrace the Christian ethical framework without belief in God, miracles, and the afterlife? Meyer warns that attempting to borrow some form of Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	What happens when the world gives up believing in God? Is it sufficient simply to believe in
0:17.9	good and in right? Or must there be a deeper reality supporting it?
0:23.4	Hello, I'm Tom Gilson.
0:25.4	Today's ID The Future explores such questions
0:28.3	in the second and final portion
0:30.9	of a conversation among four eminent scholars on the topic.
0:35.0	Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution is our host,
0:38.7	and his guests in the order that they speak
0:41.2	after his introduction today, author Douglas Murray, historian
0:45.8	Tom Holland and from the Discovery Institute philosopher Stephen C. Meyer. Meyer.
0:56.0	Here's Roger Scrutin, Douglas. And the question of course is going to be,
0:58.0	do you subscribe to this?
1:00.0	Anybody who goes through life with an open mind and heart will encounter moments that are saturated with meaning,
1:07.0	but whose meaning cannot be put into words.
1:10.0	These moments are precious to us.
1:12.0	When they occur, it is as though on the winding, ill-lit stairway of our life.
1:18.0	We suddenly come across a window,
1:20.0	through which we catch sight of another and brighter world.
1:24.6	Yes. A world to which we belong, but which we cannot enter.
1:30.0	There are many who would dismiss this world as an unscientific fiction.
1:35.0	I am not alone in thinking that it is real and important.
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