Dr. Stephen Meyer

Well, maybe there is something that doesn't change.

And so I began this sort of exploration and, uh,

So I ultimately, through college, I did a double major in science, but I was always sneaking over and taking philosophy classes.

And I had this great Christian philosophy professor who kind of helped me start to make sense of all this stuff.

And so I became convinced that Christianity was true.

in the middle of college, but I wasn't quite ready to, I didn't want it to be true quite yet.

I didn't really settle to my first year out of university in my first job.

And then soon after that, I attended this conference where Alan Sandage was, where Dean Kenyon, one of the origin of life scientists who also changed his mind from being a chemical evolutionary theorist to a proponent of intelligent design.

I started to encounter some of these early proponents of the idea of intelligent design.

And I just got seized with this.

So my reasons for conversion were mainly philosophical and somewhat biblical.

And then I found that it was the scientific support for the basic worldview of biblical theism as well.

And that's what—then I just got—

I got lit, you know, I got ignited and, you know, I went back to this old professor after I had been at this conference and told him about, in particular, the DNA argument, the idea that the digital code in DNA was pointing to a pre-existing intelligence.

And he said, you get in the middle of this stuff as fast as you can.

He said, this is the most significant thing to have happened in philosophy in 300 years.

This is about what you're talking about is the reformulation of the design argument.

And if there is validity to that, that changes everything in philosophy and in our whole Western culture.

Because that's where we lost the conviction that there was public evidence of God.

And if that comes back, that's going to change everything, he said.