Stephen Meyer: The Return of the God Hypothesis

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Eric Metaxas interviews Stephen C. Meyer on the scientific evidence for the existence of God as outlined in Dr. Meyer’s book THE RETURN OF THE GOD HYPOTHESIS. Their conversation explores evidence from cosmology, showing that the material universe had a beginning; evidence from physics, showing that the universe was been “finely tuned” to allow for the possibility of life, and evidence from biology, showing that since the universe came into being, large amounts of genetic information present in DNA must have arisen to make life possible. Metaxas asks about the response to the 2021 book and Meyer details a dramatic shift in the intellectual world. He says that after the rise and fall of the popular arguments put forward by the “New Atheists” in the early 2000’s, groundbreaking scientific discoveries led to a return to belief. Meyer cites the rise of figures like psychologist Jordan Peterson and British historian Tom Holland who lament the loss of morality and look beyond the cynicism of the New Atheists by returning to conversations on truth and meaning. The interview took place at the Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, sponsored by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, in April 2022.

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0:00.0	Thank you so much.
0:18.4	Thank you so much.
0:19.7	My goodness.
0:28.7	I just want to just say a few words briefly about what Socrates in the city is.
0:34.9	And then I want to introduce my guest, our guest, tonight, Dr. Stephen Meyer.
0:38.6	So some of you already know what Socrates in the city is. And if you do, how many of you already know what Socrates in the city is.
0:41.9	And if you do, how many of you are familiar with Socrates in the city, right, Jim?
0:46.4	Okay, you guys can go out and take your cigarette break if you, if you want to.
0:49.6	Socrates in the city.
0:59.6	Some of you know that Socrates said the unexined life is not worth living and then he blew his brains out in an alley. All right, you knew that was a joke. All right, great, great, great.
1:06.1	He said the unexamined life is not worth living. And I think I live in Manhattan, you know, cultural capital of the world, and the cultural
1:14.9	capitals of the world, they don't talk about the big questions.
1:18.9	Have you ever noticed that?
1:20.4	Yeah, you don't bring those things up at cocktail parties.
1:24.0	You know what cocktail party is?
1:26.9	You know, two hours out of the city, I'm taking nothing for granted, okay?
1:33.0	How many of you own chickens? Raise your hands. Come on. Yeah, I know. I know. You think I'm stupid?
1:38.8	Yeah, I know. I know. How many of you churned butter? Come on. How many of you wear long jeans skirts?
1:46.5	No? That's a bridge too far? All right.
1:52.5	So I thought, who can we get for this Pennsylvania event?
1:56.3	And I thought, what about a former geophysicist?
2:01.2	Can we get him?
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