Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro Talk Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On this ID The Future, we bring you the first half of Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro’s 2019 interview with philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer on The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special. This exchange happened five years ago now, and we thought it was a good time to put it out there again for those who may not have heard it yet or don’t remember it. Dr. Meyer considers this one of the best interviews he’s done on the subject of his second solo book Darwin’s Doubt. Shapiro was very well-prepared and asked great questions, resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging hour-long conversation. We’ve got the first half of it for you today, followed by the concluding half in Read More › Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.0	welcome to ID the future I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I get to hand the
0:17.1	hosting mic over to Daily Wire Host Ben Shapiro as we share with you his 2019 interview with philosopher of science Dr Stephen Meyer on the
0:26.4	Ben Shapiro Sunday Special.
0:29.2	This exchange happened five years ago now and we thought it was a good time to put it out there again for those who
0:34.4	may not have heard it yet or watched it when it first came out.
0:38.4	Dr Meyer considers this one of his best interviews on the subject of his second solo book, Darwin's doubt. Shapiro was extremely well prepared and asked great questions,
0:49.7	resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging our long conversation.
0:55.0	We've got the first half of it for you today, followed by the concluding half in a subsequent
0:59.4	episode.
1:01.7	In this first half of the conversation, Dr Meyer starts off with the basics, including his own scientific
1:07.1	background, the scientific pedigree of intelligent design, how ID differs from creationism, and how the theory might be falsified.
1:16.6	The pair then discuss the different meanings of the word evolution before Dr Meyer
1:20.8	gets into one of Darwin's biggest doubts,
1:23.4	the mystery of the missing fossils,
1:25.6	and how that relates to an even bigger mystery,
1:28.1	the mystery of the origin of biological information.
1:32.2	Here's Ben Shapiro now with special guest Dr Stephen Meyer.
1:36.0	Enjoy.
1:38.0	This is Darwin's historical scientific method.
1:40.0	When you're trying to explain an event in the remote past, you want to draw on your
1:43.4	knowledge of cause and effect. And if the effect is a lot of new digital information, we know of a
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