Dr. Stephen Meyer

in which he was also finding an echo in the biblical text.

So, yes, many debates, some really great interlocutors.

One just hat tip to a gentleman I like very much who passed away last year, Michael Ruse.

We were frequent, friendly debating partners going back to my first year out of grad school.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, and he was very kind to me.

Even though we were on the opposite sides of the issue, he offered to help me –

get established in my career in the philosophy of science.

And so I always appreciated him very much.

And we have a book coming out in the Cambridge University Press next year that's co-edited by my colleague, William Dembski, a leading proponent of intelligent design, and Michael Ruse, who passed away before the book had come out.

So it's a posthumously edited book by Ruse.

So I just give him a hat tip.

We...

There's an interesting debate going on right now about the origin of the universe.

There are leading physicists and cosmologists who are still uncomfortable with the idea of a beginning.

And there has been a proliferation in recent years of…

new cosmological models that attempt to restore the idea of an infinite universe.

They're infinite universe cosmologies.

And I had a debate in Oxford in October with a science writer, journalist named Phil Halper, who's worked closely with a lot of these cosmologists who are formulating these infinite universe cosmologies.

And Halper's argument and the argument of one of his co-authors, a Persian cosmologist named F. Shorty, is that, look, there are lots of these new models, so we can't really say that the universe had a beginning after all.