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For the Colson Center, I'm Shane Morris.

Does science give evidence for the existence of God?

It's a touchy question because many people today

are convinced that science can't give evidence for God as a rule. But this rule

itself isn't scientific. It's a naturalistic philosophy or worldview and few people have done more to refute this worldview in recent years than philosopher of science and best-selling author Dr Stephen Meyer.

Meyer has been taking intelligent design discourse mainstream lately.

Last year he appeared on the Joe Rogan experience to make the case that science can and does

point to a designer.

And last month he got a surprisingly warm reception on the Piers Morgan uncensored show

where he laid out the case for intelligent design and argued that three of the greatest discoveries

of the 20th century point convincingly to the existence of God. First, the fact that the universe

had a beginning demands a non-naturalistic cause for everything. Meyer explained how, at the

beginning of the 20th century, materialist scientists believe that the universe was

eternal and therefore uncaused. Yet as astronomers and physicist peered into the heavens with

increasingly advanced tools they came to the inescapable conclusion that the universe

did have a beginning.

This had huge implications.

As Meyer put it, prior to the origin of matter, there is no matter to do the causing. You need to invoke something

that is external to the universe and is not bounded by time or space. An immaterial

cause outside of time and space sounds an awful lot like the classical Christian idea of God.

Meyer also pointed Morgan to the mind-boggling fine-tuning scientists observe in our universe

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