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Metaxas, Meyer: Materialist Moves Are “Desperate and Kind of Pathetic”

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“Desperate and kind of pathetic,” is how Eric Metaxas delicately characterizes materialist attempts to explain away the three scientific discoveries that together call for an inference to a personal God. As Stephen Meyer explains in his brand new book, out yesterday, Return of the God Hypothesis, those are the discovery that the universe has a beginning, that it was ultra-fine-tuned for life from the start, and that life bears evidence of “bursts of information” infusing what materialists assume to be unguided evolutionary history. Metaxas talked with Meyer in a (what else did you expect?) highly entertaining interview. Watch it now: 

https://youtu.be/wLHM_baV_sE

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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