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Intelligent Design the Future

Stephen Meyer and Piers Morgan: Design, Atheism, and God

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4993 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Does a scientific worldview require atheism? Or are scientific discoveries of the last century pointing back to a God hypothesis? On this ID The Future, Piers Morgan sits down with "one of the most controversial philosophical minds on the planet," Dr. Stephen Meyer, for a lively and wide-ranging discussion about the scientific arguments for intelligent design and the problems with atheism. We are grateful to the producers of Piers Morgan Uncensored for permission to re-post this interview on ID The Future. Source

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0:00.0

I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design

0:12.3

welcome to ID the future I I'm Andrew McDermott. Today I'm delighted to share with you a recent conversation between Piers Morgan and Dr Stephen Meyer on Piers Morgan uncensored. In a 30 minute exchange, Dr Meyer reminds us that

0:27.2

those signs can't prove God, it can offer a lot of evidence to support a case for God.

0:36.1

Meyer fields questions from Morgan on a variety of topics, from how best to respond to atheists like Richard Dawkins and Neil Degrass Tyson,

0:40.7

to the problems with the multiverse hypothesis. Along the way Meyer opens up about the recent loss of his mother and

0:46.9

explains how grief can bring into sharp focus the ultimate questions of life.

0:57.0

Here's Pierceiers Morgan now, introducing his guest Dr Stephen Meyer. The Big Bang Theory.

1:00.0

Why would that lend support to a theory of a God?

1:04.0

The picture of the universe that has emerged

1:06.0

is a universe that had a definite beginning

1:08.6

and therefore requires some sort of external creator or cause.

1:11.7

That comes back to the idea of a designer of all this.

1:15.4

Are you prepared to accept you could just be completely wrong?

1:19.2

One of the scientists who first discovered these fine-tuning parameters

1:21.8

was Fred Hoyle.

1:23.0

Later quoted as saying that a super intellect is monkey with physics and chemistry

1:26.7

that make life possible.

1:28.0

I would say, I love the way that monkeys always make it into the origins.

1:31.0

Discussion, even if it's in physics.

1:32.4

It always goes back to monkeys.

1:34.0

Is your belief that the Darwin theory actually fails?

1:38.0

I think it does fail.

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