Stephen Meyer: Has the West Forgotten God?

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In today’s ID the Future philosopher Stephen Meyer revisits Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Templeton Prize speech from May 10, 1983, where Solzhenitsyn indicted the West for forgetting God. Meyer argues that Solzhenitsyn’s indictment is more timely than ever. But at the same time, there is today more scientific evidence than ever for the existence of a personal God, Meyer says, and the argument from intelligent design is a powerful means to awaken individuals to the presence of God and to renew culture. Meyer goes on to support those claims with concrete examples. Today’s episode is taken from a talk Dr. Meyer gave at the 2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Meyer is author of the bestselling book Return of the God 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	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson.
0:14.0	Forty years ago, Alexander Solzhen delivered a memorable speech on the tragedies that nations and societies commit when they forget God.
0:24.3	He had seen it firsthand in Soviet Russia.
0:27.2	And this year, in February 2023, Stephen C. Meyer,
0:31.2	director of the Center for Science and Culture, recalled that speech as he opened
0:36.2	the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.
0:39.4	With a look at so-called scientific materialism and the human disaster it is increasingly producing.
0:47.6	And yet now, though, there is hope for science itself is pointing more and more to the reality of God.
0:57.0	This year is the 40th anniversary of a very significant speech that was given by Alexander Solzhen, the great Soviet
1:06.6	dissident.
1:08.2	And this was his famous Men Have Forgotten God's Speech.
1:11.7	There are disasters following America and the question I want to ask
1:15.0	tonight is if these disasters, any of them, all of them, some of them have something
1:20.8	to do with our having forgotten God.
1:24.0	I'm going to start to talk tonight on an apologetically somber note because I think all of us have a sense that our
1:37.0	culture is in some serious trouble and that there are in many, many ways the wheels are coming off and it happens that this year is the 40th anniversary of a very significant speech that was given by Alexander Solzhen, the great Soviet
1:55.4	dissident. This was his famous Men Have Forgotten God's Speech. And in this
2:00.7	speech he told the story of the words spreading across the Soviet Union,
2:06.8	across Russia, Mother Russia at the time, of the Bolshevik takeover, and that the old people were telling him repeatedly
2:17.2	these things are happening these great disasters have befall in Russia
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