Dr. Stephen Meyer

People think that that amount of time –

gives you the probabilistic resources that you need to explain life in the universe.

It doesn't because life is so immensely complex and the probabilities are so small, even in relation to those kind of big numbers.

Um, the, uh, it, it happens.

So I have a bit of a hybrid view.

I, oh, well, the other thing is I don't think the Genesis account teaches a young earth.

That's the, that's the shocking thing to a lot of my, uh, Christian friends.

I'm a,

a Bible-believing Christian.

So not all proponents, I should say, not all proponents of intelligent design are, because it's an evidence-based argument.

Not everyone comes to the same conclusions about religious stuff.

But I am a Bible-believing Christian.

But I don't think the Bible teaches a young earth.

And one of several reasons I have for thinking that is that if you do really careful exegesis on the Genesis 1 text, you get to day four.

And in day four, it says that

that god either created or caused to appear there's a hebrew verb haya that has either meaning um doesn't really matter though because what the text says is that he either created or caused to appear the sun and the moon and he gave them as markers of the the seasons and the days and the years the days the years and the seasons so they're time markers but wait we're in day four already we've already had the days of creation established we've had three yoms of creation already

So it's hard to – so it's almost like a little signal.

Be careful not to impute your method of timekeeping to the timekeeping that's going on in the Genesis account because we mark time as the result of the movement of the sun across the ecliptic, okay, across the arc of the sky.

And we have more sophisticated ways of doing that now, but it's – we have –

always in human history, had solar-denominated days, right?