I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I.D. the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today we're sharing the second half of an interview between philosopher of science Dr Stephen Meyer and author and radio podcast host Justin Briarley.

The interview delves into the main arguments of Dr Meyer's most recent book, Return of the

God Hypothesis, but it also serves as an update on the status of intelligent design

and the growing interest in design arguments in both academia and the public square.

There's a significant shift underway, says Dr Meyer.

Darwinism is in trouble, an intelligent design is attracting high-profile

converts in the scientific community who are looking for a better explanation for the origin

and development of life and the universe than the Neo-Darwinian paradigm can provide.

In part two, Meyer and Briarley begin by jumping into the most popular objection to the fine-tuning arguments of intelligent design, the multiverse.

Do theories of multiple universes defeat intelligent design?

Dr Meyer argues to the contrary.

The discussion then pivots to the third great discovery of modern signs that Dr Meyer details in his book, The Discovery of Digital Information at the Heart of Life.

Dr Meyer provides an update on the status of origin of life research and explains why the prevailing naturalistic theories on the origin of life fall short.

Meyer also addresses more objections to intelligent design.

Let's join Dr Meyer and Justin Briarley once again for the concluding half of their conversation.

All right, let's move to the multiverse.

If I can give what I would say is my kind of summary of this particular

solution to fine tuning is simply that well there may be evidence that in fact there is more than just our universe. We are one of many universes. And if that's the case, then it could be that all of the many, you know,

ensemble of universes all have different initial constants and values of their various forces.

And we happen to live in one of the very rare universes where it worked out well for life to be able to exist.

So yeah, this idea of a multiverse sort of solving it

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