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 first 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 1, Meyer and Briarley discuss the current status of intelligent design.

They also jump into the first two of three discoveries that Meyer lays out in his book, the discovery that the universe had a beginning,

and the discovery of the fine-tuning present in the initial conditions of the universe,

and the subsequent fine-tuning that allowed for advanced life to flourish.

Along the way, Dr Meyer addresses some common objections to his arguments.

Now, let's join Dr Meyer and Justin Briarley for part one of their conversation.

We've been attracting some very high profile converts to our position from within the scientific world itself.

Theodaruanism, which has also been a key plank in the whole worldview of the scientific

atheists, is itself in trouble even among evolutionary biologists, even the attempts to

circumvent these theistic arguments based on the beginning in the first place or based on the fine tuning,

end up requiring alternative hypotheses that themselves end up having tacit

theistic implications.

Where's the information coming from that makes that possible?

It's coming from an intelligence.

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