Stephen Meyer: God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Do we have to choose between science and God? Absolutely not, says philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer. In fact, theistic ideas about nature actually inspired the rise of modern science. On today’s ID the Future from the archive, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and radio host Michael Medved discuss the arguments presented in a series of short videos featuring Dr. Meyer that explore the increasingly strong scientific case for intelligent design and for the idea that the universe is the product of a transcendent mind. Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello, I'm Tom Gilson here to tell you about today's podcast and make a handoff to Michael Medved and Stephen C. Meyer,
0:19.8	talking on the Michael Medved show about science,
0:23.7	faith, the Big Bang, and a great book and video series produced by Dr. Meyer and the Discovery
0:30.2	Institute.
0:32.2	And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth and a great day where there's been a point
0:39.0	of view that has been advanced for years now, actually for generations. And it's a point of view
0:45.0	that's extremely destructive. That point of view says you have two choices in this world for a source
0:52.8	of wisdom and understanding. And the two choices are science, which is the
0:58.1	preferred choice, of course, or faith, which is often denigrated as something that is medieval,
1:05.6	is outdated, is irrelevant in today's world. Not so fast, says Steve Meyer, and say, I would say, most thinking people, there is nothing
1:16.1	incompatible between science and faith.
1:21.4	There is actually, in fact, indication to believe that people who have made the most dramatic advances in scientific
1:30.3	understanding were individuals of very deep faith.
1:35.3	All of this is brought out in a remarkable bestseller that I hope everybody here has already gotten a copy of,
1:42.3	which is the return of the God hypothesis by my friend Steve Meyer, who is the head of the
1:49.1	Institute for Science and Culture of Discovery Institute here in Seattle.
1:55.8	And Steve, I'm very glad to speak to you, and I hope you continue to have a successful and wonderful recovery from the COVID-19.
2:06.6	Well, thanks for those good wishes, Michael. I'm all better. It was a mild case, but it lingered. I guess a number of people have had that experience. So, but I think we, the last interview I did with you was right before the holidays,
2:19.7	and that's about the time I came down with it, but we had a terrific conversation about the,
2:24.2	the new telescope that NASA has put up, the James Webb, and good memories of that conversation.
2:30.8	Yes, and by the way, what's the update on that? Have they come back? I know that they
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