Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Professor of Christian Ethics and Dean of the Faculty of

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Biola University,

specifically Talbot School of Theology.

Hey, have you ever wondered about evolution, creation,

theistic evolution, intelligent design, different views of the origin of life and the origin of the

universe.

If you've had questions about that, we have a world-renowned expert on a view known as

intelligent design who's with us today.

Dr. Steve Meyer, who's a both a geophysicist and a philosopher of science.

He's a PhD from Cambridge University and currently with a group called the Discovery Institute

and one of the leading proponents in the world today of the view called intelligent design.

So Steve, thanks for being with us and we look forward to our time together.

Let me start with this.

What of the various options that are out there

in terms of origins?

I want you to help our listeners understand sort of the landscape.

If you could just briefly identify what the main options are for understanding origins.

Well, I think there's, even prior to that, there's a main issue and that is did life

originate as the result of the activity of a designing mind of an conscious agent or is it the product of purely undirected material processes that, as one

Neuadarvanus put it, did not have us in mind. Mind or no mind. And the debate about intelligent design and Darwinian

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