Former geophysicist and professor Stephen Meyer discusses evolution, intelligent design, biological information age, and the role of mind in creation. Topics include fine-tuning, functional sequences, life, pattern, methodological materialism, panpsychism, simulation experiments, media interest, and new atheism.
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Intelligent Design Defined
Intelligent design claims life is best explained by a designing intelligence, not undirected processes.
It differs from young Earth creationism by not asserting a specific earth age and focuses on evidence inference.
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The Biological Information Challenge
The universe's fine-tuning and cellular information challenge undirected evolutionary explanations.
Biological systems contain digital information that requires an intelligent source to explain their origin.
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Rarity of Functional Genes
Functional genetic sequences are extremely rare and isolated among all possible arrangements.
Random mutations degrade function before producing new beneficial sequences, challenging Darwinian explanations.
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In this video, I interview Stephen Meyer about evolution, intelligent design, Darwinianism, the advent of the biological information age, and how it changed the debate about the origins of life. We discuss the questions of what life and mind are, and how pattern and mind are part of and participate in creation.
A former geophysicist and college professor, Stephen C. Meyer now directs Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He has gained recent popularity about his perspective on evolution and appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Learn more about Steve's work and books: https://stephencmeyer.org/ YouTube version: https://youtu.be/aHCALnvOBq4
Timestamps: 00:00 - Coming up 01:15 - Intro music 01:39 - Introduction 02:31 - The appearance of intelligent design 05:43 - Fine-tuning and complexity 08:36 - The biological information age 11:58 - Creative constraints 14:36 - Mind and natural selection 17:29 - Functional sequences 23:55 - What is life? 30:20 - Pattern 36:23 - Methodological materialism 41:38 - Panpsychism 45:35 - What is mind? 49:47 - Simulation experiments 56:02 - Media interest 1:02:26 - New atheism 1:07:55 - Emergence
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