Has Science Rediscovered God? | Interview with Stephen C. Meyer

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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Politics, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, News

4.9 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Stephen C. Meyer dives into his influential book Return of the God Hypothesis, arguing that groundbreaking discoveries in cosmology, physics, and biology—such as the universe's origin, fine-tuning for life, and the coded information in DNA—provide strong scientific evidence for a purposeful intelligent designer rather than purely materialistic explanations. Meyer challenges the notion that science and faith are inherently at odds, showing how modern evidence is actually reviving the God hypothesis as the most reasonable inference from the data. This discussion ties directly into the themes of the upcoming documentary The Story of Everything, offering viewers a clear, thought-provoking case for why science may be pointing back to a divine mind behind it all. Go to TheStoryOfEverything.Film to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for listening here. We just recorded a TV show on aliens.
0:08.0	But it wasn't, and that's so funny because that either gets you really fired up like,
0:12.0	yes, finally, another episode about aliens. You're like, I don't care about aliens.
0:16.0	But in the end, the special was about the cosmos and about creation and about our creator.
0:23.9	We started here with our opening monologue, a little bit of Psalm 19, and then talked to the expert, Dr. Stephen Meyer, on this issue. America is the greatest country in the world.
0:43.3	Thanks for being here.
0:44.3	Welcome to our new special, Politics by Faith, the heavens and God's grand design.
0:51.3	Today's special started because our producer has been really wanting to do another special
0:55.4	on aliens because a while back we did a special on aliens and I think it's still our most
0:59.9	watched episode we've ever done. So producer Matt's been looking for an angle on aliens and
1:06.0	then Barack Obama and Donald Trump gave us one, so we took it.
1:11.5	But this special is not entirely about aliens.
1:15.0	We're going to broaden it out a bit.
1:17.2	But it's also about aliens and finding some peace and perspective on aliens, but also
1:22.0	on God's creation of the cosmos.
1:25.6	Here's what started it all.
1:26.8	This is Barack Obama on a podcast just the other day.
1:29.5	Are aliens real?
1:31.6	They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in, what is it?
1:37.6	Area 51.
1:39.4	There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy, and they hit it from the
1:47.8	President of the United States.
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