Stephen Meyer and Company Answer Questions about Science and Faith

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, theologian Vern Poythress, engineer Stuart Burgess, and biologist Jonathan McLatchie answer questions about science and faith posed at the Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, held in the greater Philadelphia area. The session is moderated by Discovery Institute Vice President John West, and the conference jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and Westminster Theological Seminary. Panelists: Dr. Stuart Burgess has held academic posts at Bristol University (UK) and Cambridge University (UK), and published over 180 scientific publications on the science of design in engineering and biology. He also has received many national and international awards for design, including from the Minister of State for Trade and Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello I'm Tom Gilson. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could ask some of the world's top thinkers your deepest questions on science and faith?
0:21.0	Today's ID The Future will give you a taste of that very experience.
0:26.3	It comes out of the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, jointly hosted by Discovery Institute and Westminster Theological Seminary, where
0:36.2	a Blue Ribbon panel came together for a Q&A session with members Stephen Meyer, director
0:41.9	of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
0:45.4	Vern Poethrus, Distinguished Professor at Westminster Seminary,
0:49.7	an author of several books on science, mathematics, and philosophy related to faith.
0:55.0	Stuart Burgess, British Mechanical Engineer and Design Thearist who in 2019 won recognition
1:01.8	as the top Mechanical engineer in the United Kingdom.
1:06.2	And Jonathan McClatchy, another Britain, holding a PhD in Evolutionary Biology, and now teaching at Satler College in Boston.
1:15.0	You'll hear a short intro from each of the panel members and then Discovery Institute Vice President John West
1:22.2	moderates the panel bringing questions from
1:24.9	attendees at the conference. When you look at many different fields of
1:31.4	biological evolution you so often read this phrase. We were surprised,
1:36.6	we were not expecting this result.
1:39.8	Intelligence design has great heuristic value in exploring functions of junk DNA, which has been a topic of a lot of research in recent years.
1:49.0	Science has this structure of being indirectly inferential. We infer the unobservable to explain the observable.
1:57.0	The pressure of the society is to think, well, things just are. But the whole world is to be enjoyed not only its beauty but its ugliness. Okay, so this is our ending session with four of our speakers representing different
2:22.0	disciplines from engineering to biology, the philosophy of science, and theology and also math.
2:29.0	And so I think they should be able to tackle anything you ask with them.
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