Stephen Meyer: Can There Be a Theory of Everything?

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On today’s ID The Future, philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer continues his conversation with Praxis Circle’s Doug Monroe. In this section of a multi-part interview, Dr. Meyer discusses two of the crucial arguments of his latest book Return of the God Hypothesis: the information embedded in DNA code that demands an explanation, and the fine-tuning of the physical properties of the universe and what’s wrong with recent attempts to explain that fine-tuning by resorting to a theory of multiple universes. Dr. Meyer also addresses the question: can there be a theory of everything? Dig Deeper Source

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0:00.0	ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.9	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Andrew McDermott.
0:15.6	Today, Philosopher of Science, Dr. Stephen Meyer, sits down with Praxis Circles Doug Monroe
0:20.7	to offer insights into the intersection of science, philosophy, and science, Dr. Stephen Meyer, sits down with Praxis circles Doug Monroe to offer insights
0:22.2	into the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion. In this section of a multi-part
0:28.2	interview, Dr. Meyer begins by discussing the nature of information. He explains the difference
0:34.1	between mathematical information, or Shannon information, and a more
0:38.5	meaningful type of information called specified information. Dr. Meyer then turns to the theistic
0:44.7	assumptions that fueled the scientific revolution. Why did modern science begin where and when
0:51.2	it did? What was the spark that ignited that famous period in human learning
0:55.6	in history? Dr. Meyer has answers. The episode concludes with Dr. Meyer explaining why he's
1:02.4	bullish about the Intelligent Design Research Program, and he offers some examples of his
1:07.5	reasons for confidence and optimism.
1:15.3	Let's join host Doug Monroe now with his guest, Dr. Stephen Meyer.
1:27.1	Could you just list with not explaining each one sort of the basic three to five arguments for God? What areas of science do you see that?
1:29.6	Well, right. The septal of my book, Return of the God hypothesis, is three discoveries
1:34.5	that reveal the mind behind the universe. And I start, in a sense, building on the biological
1:42.8	arguments that I made in the, actually, the order is reversed
1:48.0	in the new book, but here's the story of the book. I wrote two books beforehand, one signature
1:55.6	in the cell, and second, Darwin's Doubt. And these were books arguing that the information needed to build the first life and major new innovations in the history of life is best explained by the activity of a designing intelligence.
2:11.4	In 1957, Francis Crick advanced something called the sequence hypothesis.
2:17.4	This was four years after he and Watson had elucidated the structure of the DNA molecule.
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