Scientific & Philosophical Arguments for Intelligent Design | Dr. Stephen Meyer Interview

Is there a mind behind the universe? What are the scientific and philosophical arguments for intelligent design? Which view has more evidence: the materialist or creationist worldview?

Dr. Stephen Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, answers these questions and much more in our Praxis Circle interview.

LINKS:

Return of the God Hypothesis: https://www.amazon.com/Return-God-Hyp...
Darwin's Doubt: https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Doubt-...
Signature in the Cell: https://www.amazon.com/Signature-Cell...

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Introduction & the Discovery Institute
2:46 What is your definition of worldview as an academic discipline?
4:50 What worldview were you born into?
5:57 Built to Last: Christian Conversion via the Bible’s Metaphysics
12:30 In College: Christianity vs. Existentialism
14:55 Epistemology & the Judeo-Christian Idea of Intelligibility
19:37 Answering Youth Who Don’t Believe in God: Return of the God Hypothesis
21:30 Crosstalk on Recorded Human History & Cognition
24:19 Crosstalk on the Mind-Body Problem of Consciousness
25:58 Crosstalk on Sufficiency of Proving God’s Existence
29:02 Is the concept of worldview important for Christian evangelism?
34:56 The Importance of Philosophy: Good Thinking
36:21 Relationship Between Materialism & Relativism
41:08 How to Convert Moral Relativists: Ask Them to Rake Leaves!
46:19 The Fact/Value Divide and Its Justifiable Bridge
51:46 The Newton and Leibniz Debate: Gravity and God?
1:00:33 Why Mind? Reduced Uncertainty, Low Probability, Specified Information
1:05:54 Specified Information vs. Laws of Nature (Redundancy/Scientific Constants)
1:08:23 How Christianity Sparked the Scientific Revolution
1:13:23 Human Fallibility Needing the Scientific Method
1:15:03 Today’s Schizophrenia: Scientific Materialism & Philosophical Skepticism
1:18:37 Where does intelligent design stand in the scientific community today?
1:23:06 Argument for God: Signature of the Cell
1:27:16 Something from Nothing? The Universe’s Origin and Quantum Physics
1:30:30 Theistic Design: Is “Who created God” a problem? No!
1:33:02 Cosmological data points to God?
1:35:26 Our Fine-Tuned Universe
1:38:46 A Fine-Tuned Universe vs. Faulty Materialist Multiverse Counterargument
1:41:31 Applying Occam's Razor: Multiverse Theory vs. Intelligent Design
1:42:57 Primary Argument Against Darwinism: Mutation’s Extremely Low Creative Power
1:47:30 The Problem with TOE (Theories of Everything)
1:50:49 Theistic Evolution: An Oxymoron
1:56:15 Do miracles (like the Resurrection) violate the laws of nature?
2:00:18 A Good Theology of Nature: God’s Creating, Sustaining, and Special Agency
2:01:20 How does Mind influence the world? Evidence: the Cambrian Explosion
2:03:54 Is a non-material explanation “scientific”? Yes, with special evidence.
2:05:57 Are you a dualist?
2:07:21 Our Ultimate Problem: “Men Have Forgotten God”
2:10:54 Optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future? Let’s Return to God!

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