On this episode of ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Christopher Booker, a columnist for the London Telegraph and author of The Real Global Warming Distaster, talk climate change skepticism and scientific consensus with Michael Medved. How do scientific issues get so controversial, and why does the majority opinion of the general public go against the so-called “scientific consensus,” in regards to evolution as well as climate change? Tune in as they …
According to Charles Marshall, I argue "that paleontologists are unable to explain the Cambrian explosion, thus opening the door to the possibility of a designer's intervention."
To rebut the central argument of Darwin's Doubt, Marshall must deny (or push from view) what we know about what new forms of animal life require as a condition of their existence.
On this episode of ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved discuss materialism and how it effects our constitution. Not in the sense of buying more ‘stuff’ but instead the particular conception of human nature. The idea of free will, that we are capable of self-governance is under attack. The forced theory that life is the product of an unguided, undirected process implies we don’t have free will. That law and morality is still evolving indicates the need to constantly update our constitution placing the document under threat as never …
On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer explains the latest developments in the academic freedom case with professor Eric Hedin at Ball State University. The president of Ball State University has issued a gag order on teachers, prohibiting them from discussing intelligent design in their classrooms. Dr. Meyer explains how intelligent design falls under the same scientific category as Darwin’s own theory of evolution: inference to the best …
On this episode of ID the Future, hear a recent interview with CSC Director Dr. Stephen Meyer on the Lars Larson Show. Dr. Meyer discusses the shirking of academic freedom by Ball State University, the widespread evidence for intelligence in life, and what Darwin didn’t know when he developed his …
On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Stephen Meyer joins Dennis Prager for The Dennis Prager Show’s very first hour on evolution. Meyer and Prager discuss Meyer’s new bestseller Darwin’s Doubt, looking at the major missing piece in Darwin’s theory as evidenced in the Cambrian explosion. Dr. Meyer observes, “Only intelligence produces information. The key thing that has to be explained in the Cambrian explosion is the information explosion that makes these animals possible.” Listen …
On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Stephen Meyer returns to the Michael Medved Show to discuss the release of and reactions to his new bestselling book Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, which Medved describes as “mind-opening and mind-bending.” Tune in as Dr. Meyer talks about the Cambrian explosion, Darwin’s views on the evolutionary process, and …
While my book presents intelligent design as an alternative to chemical evolutionary theory, Venema critiques it as if it had presented a critique of neo-Darwinism — i.e., biological evolutionary theory.
When we celebrate our country’s independence on July 4th, the day may resonate with many Americans more powerfully than in other recent years. The nation’s political mood is increasingly, well, independent. Voters are fed up with incumbent politicians and reigning political parties. This accounts for the unlikely bestselling books that keep shooting up out of what might seem like nowhere — previously obscure biographies of the Founders that pose fundamental questions about the role of our government and what direction the nation is headed. In a welcome development, Americans want to refresh their acquaintance with the sources of our rights as citizens. Yet there is one source, more basic than any other, that so far has not received the attention it deserves. I refer …
Today’s New York Times features an article by science writer Nicholas Wade highlighting what Wade calls “surprising advances have renewed confidence that a terrestrial explanation for life’s origins will eventually emerge.” Yet the scientists quoted in the article fail to address the fundamental issue that has generated the longstanding impasse in the field: the problem of the origin of biological information. Wade describes the various developments in pre-biotic chemistry that are making some scientists more optimistic about solving the problem of the origin of life. Yet, the central problem facing them is not the synthesis of pre-biotic building blocks or even discovering an environment in which life might have plausibly arisen–difficult as these …