Stephen Meyer: There’s a “Powerful Signal of Design” in Nature

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this ID The Future, enjoy the concluding half of a remarkable and candid discussion on the limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. The conversation, recorded in 2019, is hosted by Peter Robinson for his program Uncommon Knowledge, and features philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer, mathematician and author Dr. David Berlinski, and Yale Professor of Computer Science Dr. David Gelernter. In Part 2, Stephen Meyer argues there's a "powerful signal of design" in nature. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:16.5	Today we'll listen to the concluding half of a remarkable and candid discussion
0:20.7	about the
0:21.5	limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design.
0:26.0	This is a conversation recorded in 2019, hosted by Peter Robinson for his program Uncommon
0:32.2	Knowledge, and featuring philosopher of science, Dr. Stephen Meyer, mathematician and author Dr. David
0:38.5	Berlinski, and Yale Professor of Computer Science, Dr. David Galerinter.
0:43.4	The discussion was inspired by Professor Galerinter's 2019 essay, Giving Up Darwin,
0:49.4	a fond farewell to a brilliant and beautiful theory.
0:52.5	In the essay, Galerntor points to Meyer's 2013 book Darwin's doubt for convincing him that
0:58.1	Darwin has failed.
1:00.3	Galentor also points to Berlinski's book, The Deniable Darwin, as essential to his change in
1:05.2	thinking.
1:06.3	And so, Robinson brings them together for an honest conversation about Darwin, his brilliant and beautiful
1:12.0	theory, why it's time to move past it, and why intelligent design might be a more adequate
1:17.4	alternative.
1:19.0	In part two, the focus turns from the inadequacies of Darwin's theory of evolution to the
1:23.7	merits of intelligent design.
1:25.9	Although all three men are in solid agreement that Darwinian evolution fails,
1:30.3	they differ on the question of intelligent design.
1:33.6	Berlinski's attitude towards intelligent design is warm but distant.
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