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Dr. Stephen Meyer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1033 total appearances

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

It came bang on, and he realized this is probably how it happened.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

This is probably how carbon was formed in the bellies of stars.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

But then he realized for that to happen, there needed to be this whole series of just right parameters where the relationship between gravitation and electromagnetism was just right.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

All these parameters fell within these very narrow sweet spots again.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

And he had been a staunch atheist.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

He actually gave the Big Bang theory the name, the Big Bang, because he wanted to stigmatize it.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

It was a pejorative term for him.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Ha, ha, ha, the Big Bang.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Yeah, no one believes that stuff.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Well, he ended up โ€“ and he did that because he was very much a staunch scientific atheist.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

And he completely changed his worldview as a result of his own discovery about the fine tuning.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

And he was later quoted as saying that a common sense interpretation of the evidence suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics and chemistry in order to make life possible.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

So he was โ€“ like Einstein, Hoyle changed his mind.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

And we've had โ€“

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

In the film, The Story of Everything that we have coming out at the end of April, April 30th, we tell the story of these discoveries, but also the stories of the scientists who have changed their minds about the big questions, in particular the God question, as a result of some of the discoveries that they themselves have made.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Yeah.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

That becomes their God.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Yeah.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Well, we call this, there's a term in, um, probability reasoning called probabilistic resources.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2847: DNA Is More Complex Than Any Software Ever Written. So Who Wrote It? | Stephen Meyer

Uh,