Stephen Meyer: James Webb Telescope Supports the Big Bang

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this ID The Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer again speaks with radio host Michael Medved about the extraordinarily powerful new James Webb space telescope. One researcher, Eric Lerner, has claimed that what the Webb telescope is seeing many billions of light years away (and therefore, many billions of years in the past) undercuts the Big Bang theory. But according to Meyer, the new photographs coming back from Webb actually further confirm the reality that our universe had a beginning (“the Big Bang”) and that it has been expanding ever since. What these Webb images are forcing a rethink on, Meyer says, is the conventional wisdom among cosmologists on galaxy formation in the early universe. Meyer 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. New images have brought forth new science, new
0:17.2	controversy, and some new confusion as they've come from the James Webb
0:21.1	Telescope recently, with one author in particular
0:25.0	garnering a lot of press claiming that these new images proved the Big Bang didn't
0:30.0	happen.
0:31.0	Well, Stephen Seymieer is here to sort that through with us.
0:34.4	Author of the best-selling book, The Return of the God Hypothesis,
0:39.0	three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe and an expert on these topics as well.
0:47.0	Meyer puts it back in perspective here in a conversation with Michael Medved on the Michael Medved show.
0:55.0	There have been major discoveries by the James Webb Telescope
1:00.0	which are causing scientists to rethink the origins of the Cosmos.
1:08.0	And I understand that for religious believers, there's some sense that the world was created.
1:18.4	For people who question the idea of a created universe. You got big questions about where it comes from and
1:27.1	now after a consensus of many years I find out by reading Steve Meyer's new piece, it's published in the Daily
1:37.4	Wire, it's about the scientists rethinking galaxy formation and basically the origins of the universe.
1:48.2	Steve, what exactly is going on?
1:50.8	Well, thanks for having me on.
1:53.6	I know we talked about this before, but there's so many interesting developments.
1:57.2	It's great to be back to discuss it again.
2:00.7	There was an article in a British journal for arts and humanities by kind of independent
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