Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Folks, this is the Eric Metaxus show.

As you know, I love talking about science with people who know more about science than I do.

That's a lot of people.

We have Dr. Stephen Meyer with us today who has a new book out called The Return of the God Hypothesis.

Stephen Meyer, welcome back.

It's great to be with you as always, Eric.

Listen, the book I've known about this book for a long time.

I read an early version of it.

Just the title gets me excited.

Tell people who know nothing about this.

I mean, first of all, I will simply say that you've written many books,

and you're with the Discovery Institute up in Seattle.

You're one of the proponents of the intelligent design movement.

This book, the return of the hypothesis, has been on your heart, so to speak, for a long time.

So tell us the nutshell version of what is this book and why you wrote this book now.

And it's brand new.

It's just out.

Right.

Well, the book tells a big

story. It tells the story, first, of the rise of modern science in a Judeo-Christian milieu in Western

Europe between, say, 1,300 and 1750, especially in a period of time, about 1,500 to 1750,

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