Is It Time to Rethink Darwinian Evolution?

Matt Fradd interviews Stephen C. Meyer about why he abandoned secular materialism for Christian theism, centering on questions of meaning, morality, and reason. Meyer argues that a purely naturalistic universe cannot give lasting significance to human lives or achievements, which he links to a wider crisis of meaning. If our minds are products of unguided evolution plus matter alone, we lack any good reason to trust them as truth-tracking rather than merely survival-oriented. In contrast, a rational Creator designing both the world and our minds explains why the universe is intelligible and why science works. Meyer also explains why neo-Darwinian mechanisms cannot generate the vast biological information in DNA or the rapid appearance of new forms of life. Meyer argues that theism — and specifically Christian theism — is a more coherent explanation of consciousness, morality, science, and biological complexity than New Atheism and standard Darwinian evolution.