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The Eric Metaxas Show

Stephen Meyer (Encore continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute continues his exploration of ideas found in his book, "The Return of the God Hypothesis," at the recent Socrates in the City event where Meyer showed that the universe had a beginning and is “finely tuned.” (Encore Presentation)

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

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0:31.6

We are airing my recent Socrates in the City conversation with Dr. Stephen Meyer.

0:35.5

He then proceeded to explain that he was really moved to a point of thinking deeply about

0:42.2

religious faith because whereas the evidence was pointing unequivocally in one direction,

0:48.3

he didn't want it to be so.

0:50.4

And then he began to, he explained that he began to think about, well, what is it about

0:54.1

me that doesn't want this to be so?

0:55.7

I've always prided myself on my objectivity.

0:58.5

It was a very compelling story.

1:00.6

In the very next panel, there was a similar intellectual conversion announced by a leading origin of life researcher who worked on this problem of a biogenesis named Dean Kenyon.

1:10.5

And Kenyon announced

1:11.5

on the panel, he also surprised people by sitting on the side with the the theists and

1:17.1

explained, he argued that the discovery of the information bearing properties of DNA, everything

1:22.9

that Crick had anticipated, suggests that what he called the natural theological question should

1:29.4

now be reopened by the philosophers. In other words, we may as scientists be looking at evidence

1:34.4

for the existence of God in the inner workings of the cell. And so I'm 27 years old. I'm kind of

1:40.7

blown away at this. It was clear to me that the theists seemed to have the intellectual initiative in the discussion, that the people defending chemical evolutionary theory

1:48.0

had nothing to offer except promissory notes that maybe we'll figure it out down the road. So I got

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