Dr. Stephen Meyer

And so are we really saying that the universe came out of a mind?

He actually poses that rhetorical question at the end of one of his books.

There has been a deeply rooted default way of thinking for at least a century and a half in science.

And I think it's the same reason Christian people get uncomfortable if someone challenges their beliefs.

It's a human thing.

If we have a deep conviction about something, we tend not to want to give it up easily.

Michael Ruse, the gentleman I mentioned, philosopher of science, he wrote a book arguing that

That neo-Darwinism functioned as a kind of religious system of thought for many people working in evolutionary biology.

Why?

Because it answered one of the great worldview questions.

Where does life come from?

The most fundamental worldview question is what is the thing or the entity or the process from which everything else comes?

Evolutionary biology, neo-Darwinism in particular, provides a partial answer to that.

It says that life comes from this undirected materialistic process.

And so Ruse said that this is functioning in a quasi-religious way for many of his own colleagues who – he was a neo-Darwinist himself –

And so I think all of us feel, you know, when those kind of deep convictions are challenged, we react in a human way and we don't want to rethink those things and we don't do so readily.

I get a lot of mail from people who've read my books that have had that kind of experience, particularly the last book on Return of the God Hypothesis.

Sometimes people that have had 30-, 40-year careers in physics or in biology or whatever –

Debates, I have had people make interesting concessions in debates about specific points.

In fact, in the debate I had with Phil Halper at the end, he said, the moderator asked us each to give the other guy a hat tip on something and say, was there anything you learned?