Dr. Stephen Meyer
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so you have this kind of hierarchical organization of information.
And he just started to tick these things off.
And then he repeated, I get an eerie feeling that someone figured this out before us.
It's as if we're stumbling in our own information age, we're stumbling onto an awareness of information.
a deeper form of information technology that was invented long before us and upon which our very existence depends.
Do you see that often?
Well, this is the story.
We tell several of these stories in the story of everything.
Einstein never came to a fully orthodox kind of theistic belief.
He believed in some kind of mind behind the universe.
He came to recognize that the universe definitely had a beginning.
And
And the reason he didn't like that was he thought it smacked too much of the kind of Genesis account or pointed to some sort of immaterial β a need for a transcendent and immaterial creator.
Hoyle thought the same thing.
He very explicitly said he didn't like the Big Bang Theory because it reminded him too much of the Genesis account.
He thought that the scientists who were proposing it were being too influenced by the Genesis 1-1 thing, which is kind of comical because that's the last thing, I think, that was happening.
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So you have these kind of conversions away from materialism, sometimes to fully Christian belief, sometimes to some sort of theistic belief, sometimes to a rudimentary awareness of a designing mind behind things.
But there is this shift taking place with a lot of scientists.
And in the film, we tell the story of