Stephen Meyer: Return of the God Hypothesis (#131)

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Brian Keating

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He has authored the New York Times bestseller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013), Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009, and now, The Return of the God Hypothesis (HarperOne, 2021). In his first book on intelligent design, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009) Meyer examined the mystery of the origin of the first life. With Darwin’s Doubt, he has expanded the scope of the case for intelligent design to the whole sweep of life’s history. And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 4:27 - Why are you (Stephen) on this show? 7:37 - Why do you believe in intelligent design? 8:16 - Can Christians accept the contents of your book? 11:45 - Is NOMA legit? 16:06 - When does epistemological support cross into evidentiary support? 19:18 - Definition of epistemic support versus direct evidence and the historic scientific method and the abductive inference. 21:19 - What do you make of a cosmologist’s ability to “undo” another cosmologist’s work? Why should we trust any cosmologist’s explanations, given that cosmologists have historically been repeatedly disproven? 32:13 - What would you say to someone who claims you’re cherry-picking evidence for the mind behind the universe? 40:14 - Atheism and Stephen Hawking 42:08 - Why do headlines tout bold claims like, “God is dead”, when the response to the community falls on deaf ears? 48:43 - Can you talk about the lack of scientific curiosity present in the acceptance of scientific folklore? 54:03 - Why does the book have Return in its name? The three metaphors. 56:29 - How does God interact with the universe? How is the mind able to account for the teleological purpose that we exist? 1:07:04 - Why do seemingly obscure parts of the universe exist? What would God’s purpose be for creating such things? 1:14:52 - Is it possible to derive a Judeo-Christian God from intelligent design? 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh no, here we go again. Brian Keating, an allegedly serious scientist, is having on another
0:08.0	person to talk about God. God save us. You're not going to say that.
0:14.0	But it is true, and I am having on Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of Darwin's Doubt, the signature in the cell, and other expositions of so-called intelligent design.
0:27.3	And of course, intelligent design tends to get conflated with creationism and young earth creationism.
0:34.0	But actually nothing could really be farther from the truth.
0:37.0	Stephen is a very highly scientifically literate.
0:40.0	I challenge you if you think that he is Bon fides are not up to snuff.
0:44.5	He was actually debated the most eminent scientist in the world, including Lawrence Kraus and
0:50.3	others.
0:51.5	And I think you'll find him incredibly introspective, thoughtful
0:55.8	person with very, very good arguments on his side for the case that he makes in
1:01.2	his new book, Return of the God hypothesis,
1:04.8	which is about fine tuning,
1:06.6	about entropy in the early universe,
1:09.2	about Alexei Valenkin, about Kraus about Richard Dawkins about issues raised in his previous books regarding the nature of information and the claim is simply defended here, not a personal God, not Jesus, not Moses, God of Moses and or Abraham.
1:28.0	But instead, the necessity in his claim for a mind to create information.
1:35.0	And I push back in many cases, as you'll see, maybe you think I succeeded in defending your viewpoint,
1:41.0	whether that be pro or against so-called intelligent design.
1:45.0	I hope you'll give it a chance.
1:47.0	If you want to unsubscribe, I will refund your money, which is zero, but I hope you don't. I'm going to have on many, many of the world's
1:55.7	most eminent scientists coming up, including those that use God just as much as Stephen does,
2:00.3	namely Michio Kaku. I also have on David Spurgal, one of the most eminent scientists in the world,
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