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| Dr. Stephen Meyer (Public Domain) |
Although belief in God has fallen out of favor within certain circles, Dr. Stephen Meyer is harkening back to the hypothesis that an intelligent Creator indeed exists.
During an 2021 Hoover Institution interview, Meyer declared, “We can judge the merits of a metaphysical hypothesis of a worldview by looking at the world around us, to see if it matches the expectations, what we think should follow if that hypothesis were true.”
Meyer has dedicated a huge chunk of his life to checking the God Hypothesis against the world around us. After noting the profound intricacy of even a single human cell, he concludes that Richard Dawkins’ theory of a “blind pitiless” and fundamentally indifferent Universe seems out of kilter.
Meyer points out that the Big Bang had a beginning point, commonly called the Singularity. He wonders what came before that... Did the Universe just suddenly and randomly arise out of sheer nothingness?
Meyer finds that to be highly unlikely, and questions the notion of nothingness itself. He also notes that Darwin had no solid explanation for the origin of life, and no solid explanation for the complex evolutionary leaps that go far beyond mere adaptations and variations. Meyer claims that intelligent design seems a much better theoretical match for such observations than does natural selection.
Resources
https://www.hoover.org/research/stephen-meyer-intelligent-design-and-return-god-hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUynYz93zY
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