Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey, folks. You're listening to a special edition of the Eric Mattaxas show. We are airing my recent

Socrates in the City conversation with Dr. Stephen Meyer. He then proceeded to explain that he was

really moved to a point of thinking deeply about religious faith, because whereas the evidence

was pointing unequivocally in one direction, he didn't want it to be so. And then he began to, he explained that he began to think about, well, what is it about me that doesn't want this to be so?

I've always prided myself on my objectivity.

It was a very compelling story.

In the very next panel, there was a similar intellectual conversion announced by a leading origin of life researcher who worked on this problem of a biogenesis named

dean Kenyon

and Kenyon announced at in on the panel he also surprised people by sitting

on the side with the the theists

and explained he argued that the the discovery of the information

bearing properties of DNA everything that Crick had anticipated,

suggests that what he called,

the natural theological question,

should now be reopened by the philosophers.

In other words,

we may, as scientists, be looking at evidence

for the existence of God

in the inner workings of the cell.

And so I'm, you know, 27 years old, I'm kind of blown away at this. It was clear to me that the theists seemed to have the inner workings of the cell. And so I'm, you know, 27 years old. I'm kind of blown away at this.

It was clear to me that the the theists seemed to have the intellectual initiative in the discussion.

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