Stephen C. Meyer: What Is Intelligent Design? Scientific PROOF of God | Kirk Cameron on TBN

Stephen C. Meyer joins Kirk Cameron to discuss how scientific research, theories of the unexplainable, and a fine-tuned universe point to the proof of intelligent design, and ultimately, a Creator. Learn about how human DNA reveals the hand of a programmer, and if the discovery of aliens would challenge a biblical worldview. Don't miss this discussion from Takeaways with Kirk Cameron on TBN!
Learn more in Meyer's new book, "Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe."
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0:00 Intro
0:33 What Is Intelligent Design?
5:20 Scientific Origin Theories
10:36 Unobservable Entities
12:48 Artifacts Of Intelligence
18:28 Fine-Tuned Universe
20:34 If Aliens Were Discovered

[@mikeepperson4139]

Thanks Kirk, always interesting and uplifting interviews.

[@omara6693]

These men are a perfect example of doing their parts for Christ while on earth. God gives us all gifts, find yours and do your part! ✝️🙏

[@Hydroverse]

Good interview between Kirk and Stephen.

[@desertwolf3818]

This is very interesting

[@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831]

Always great seeing Stephen Meyer.

[@mcmanustony]

Which of his lies is your favourite?

[@gerardmoloney433]

​@@mcmanustonyname any one of his lies. I'm very interested in knowing if you are intelligently designed or not.

[@mcmanustony]

@@gerardmoloney433 of the "Discovery Institute"- "we are a group of scientists". This is a lie. The DI is a right-wing Christian pressure group. Meyer has a basic degree in physics from a small private fundamentalist school offering no postgraduate education in any science. His publications in the professional scientific literature number....ZREO. There was a pathetic research free essay smuggled into the PBSW journal by a corrupt crony. It appeared because the peer review process had been cheated. It was instantly dropped. Berlinski- failed academic who poses as a mathematician. Is not and never has been a scientist of any kind. Founding fanatic- Philip Johnson: pig-ignorant, scientifically illiterate LAWYER. Casey Luskin, professional lying smear merchant and LAWYER.....redundant degree in geology. Richard Weikart- disgraced historian. etc.

[@mcmanustony]

@@gerardmoloney433 He relentlessly lies about attending a conference convened by the UK Royal Society. He was in THE AUDIENCE- not an invited participant. He ties himself in knots lying that the point of the conference was to replace evolution. It was not. He then prattles repeatedly about his two hobby horses- the Cambrian "explosion" and the painfully tedious "information" drivel he's been peddling for years. The point being to get his witless drones to believe these were the focus of the conference. They were not, and he knows damn well that neither was even a topic of discussion. Larry Moran is an actual scientist (Emeritus professor U of Toronto) who actually attended the conference and has blogged that Meyer is simply lying. Gerd Mueller, who is an actual scientist who actually presented an actual paper at the conference has also reamed Meyer for his grotesque misrepresentation of his work.

[@bobthebaptist4541]

And which one of his arguments have you refuted???? Rhetoric is not an argument. So what he talks about the Cambrian explosion. It’s factual and presents a significant challenge to Neo Darwinianism. Going from very simple cells to complex biological organisms in a geological short period of time is challenging. I was in University in the mid 80s and I vividly remember Gould and Eldridge postulating Punctuated Equilibria to challenge the lack of intermediates. So to suggest there aren’t significant challenges to the current naturalistic model is just disingenuous: .

[@erhardtharris8727]

Very fun to watch. Relevant to the future of discourse.

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

The fact is, neither of these guys are Christians.

[@erhardtharris8727]

Please explain?@@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

@@erhardtharris8727 ,....The explanation is, just as I stated, these two are not Christians and have as their real religion the Godless worlds religion of scientism that they call christianity. The christianity of the entire church is scientism not the Bibles Christianity. The Bibles Christianity is not found in anything called or known as the church. The religion of everything called and known as the church is the Godless, God hating worlds false, manmade religion of atheism/scientism.

[@9sunskungfu]

@@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed Yes they are.

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

@@9sunskungfu ,....Sorry, you are deceived. These guys are not Christians. If you were a Christian you would know this. Both you and them are the blind following the blind. Repent, and learn what the truth, the gospel, and the Christianity of the Bible actually is!

[@goldennoob6362]

Happy birthday 🎈🎂🎉❤😊

[@lillianmcgrew217]

Amen ❤❤

[@ChildofGod98765]

Jesus I know you are coming soon renew my faith. I trust in God and keep faith even as I struggle to take care of my children and myself. As a single mother things are so hard on me. Both of my sons are autistic I’m overwhelmed. Father take away my fears. My hours to work are limited because I’m homeschooling my sons. God please hear my prayers. Father God I’m so tired of constantly struggling to buy groceries and constantly struggling to pay rent. I’m so ashamed and overwhelmed. But I choose to have faith over fear as christians that’s all we can do. No matter your struggle, we can turn to God. He knows us personally and can give us strength to overcome our challenges. Faith that God will change my situation.

[@drsandy842]

Keep praying TiffMiller1234 I was once. In your situation and unfortunately did not find GOD until I ended up were you are. I became disabled early in my career and felt I was useless and the Christian school I had my children in was not giving them what they needed. I am a single mother of two with one being Autistic. I decided to home school using the Christian school ABEKA. With two at different ages made it very difficult but God threw a retired Christian teacher into my world and he helped me teach for many years. Just believe you are going to be able to make it! GOD is great I just wish I knew sooner. Now my kids are older and help with finding the sales at the grocery store it’s the way we make it. You have absolutely no reason to be ashamed go to Phil Robertson they do a very laid back bible study an hour four times a week. Look at the Robertsons for faith. They have a beautiful story of redemption and a movie in theaters now called The Blind if you don’t know who they are this movie will explain. They have changed my way of thinking. I’ll be praying for you and your children YOU CAN DO IT!!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!!!

[@bubblybernice4863]

Ask the Holy Spirit to walk with you. When u read your Bible ask God to show you His truths. Have you confessed Jesus Christ as Lord. If not, it says in Romans 10: 9-10 If thou Shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and the mouth confession is made unto salvation. I will pray for you.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

The Lord always hears your prayers and loves you and your family. Just keep the faith and I pray to the Lord in Jesus name with you that your faith will grow and that God through the Holy Spirit will guide you through this hard time. Also from your comment it sounds like you’re a loving mother doing the best she can for her children and that is nothing to be the least bit ashamed of. You keep your head up and keep on praying. Owe and I know you’re busy and tired so any downtime is hard to give up but finding a good Christian Church to attend will only be a blessing to you and your children. Plus you find good people that can help you in so many ways even if it’s just a friend to pick you up on a bad day.

[@emilioramirez6422]

Is just in your head that is all

[@ladybug8275]

Always and forever thanks Kirk blessings amen 🙏 🙏👼

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

Neither KC, nor SM are Christians, nor is anyone who thinks they are.

[@ikecalle]

Can you recognize evil actions from good actions in your Bible? Because most children age 10 and older are able to correctly identify good/evil actions when reading certain passages in the Bible. YOUR GOD IN THE UNHOLY BIBLE instructs how to buy and sell men, women and even children as slaves (personal property). Even how to own slaves for life and passing your male/female slaves to your children as inherited property. IT'S EVIL. Leviticus 25:44-46 44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly. Your god commands, "THOU SHALT NOT KILL", yet, commands a father (Abraham) to murder his own son (Isaac) and set him of fire as a burnt offering! Genesis 22:2 - And He said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thy love, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. Your god is also also so petty and evil he murders his own people simply for non-descript harmless complaints. HIS SUPERNATURAL BIONIC HEARING HEARS A GROUP OF ISRAELITES SIMPLY COMPLAIN AMONGST THEMSELVES - YOUR VIOLENT, NARCISSISTIC, JEALOUS GOD GOES INTO A FIT OF RAGE AND IMPULSIVELY KILLS HIS GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WERE COMPLAINING AMONGST THEIRSELVES AND BURNS THEM ALIVE. BURNED ALIVE WAS HIS CREATIVE CHOICE FOR MURDER. THEY WEREN'T EVEN TALKING TO HIM. YHWH REFUSED TO TALK WITH HIS ISRAELITE CHILDREN. YOUR gOD SPOKE WITH TWO BROTHERS, MOSES AND AARON. YET, WHEN HIS PEOPLE DESPERATELY CRY OUT AND PRAY FOR SUPERNATURAL HEALING OR A CHILD CRIES OUT FOR HELP WHEN THEY ARE BEING RAPED OR MURDERED, HE DOES "NOTHING". IRONICALLY, DOCTORS, EVEN GAY AND AGNOSTIC DOCTORS, ARE HEALING AND SAVING LIVES OF THE SAME CHRISTIANS THAT VIEW THEM AS AN ABOMINATION.

[@Shanjuran33]

Life as we know it procedes from an original 'seed' program . When you have this program you can answer all the unkmowns. Umm...just wondering, what would the code be worth to the finder do you think?

[@lynnelovett8999]

God will not be mocked !!!

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

Correct, and these two's fake christianity is 100% mocking God and the truth of Gods word.

[@derhafi]

I mock all Gods every day....what can they do given that tthey are fictional?

[@Mark-cq9nq]

👍👍

[@MichelleYvonne59]

It always seems as if science only goes to the fact of the Creator God as their LAST choice, when they’ve eliminated everything else?🙄

[@roscius6204]

Science never arrives at a creator... What religion is your computer. My microwave is a Buddhist..... luckily I'm Vego too..

[@noi5emaker]

Science doesn't prove there's a creator to scientists never talk about that myth. Intelligent design is folklore.

[@gerardmoloney433]

​@@noi5emakerthe latest spacetime theorems confirm that any universe like ours must have a causal agent outside of energy matter space and time. The Bible stated that thousands of years ago. The scientific method came from the Bible. Put everything to the test and hold fast to that which is good. That means following where the evidence leads. Science does nothing but Scientists can and do tell lies. Either the spacetime theorems, which uses the scientific method, is right or it's not scientific. If it is scientific, which it is, then the Bible is right. That your pick!

[@noi5emaker]

@@gerardmoloney433 I’ve tried the biblical method for over 40 years and it failed me every time. It simply does not hold water. The Bible is so full of holes it’s like a sieve and I simply couldn’t trust it any more.

[@user-ud9og6qm9h]

@@noi5emakerEXACTLY!!! that’s why atheists like Dawkins and Shermer who know they have about 70 years on this planet then eternal unconsciousness spend their 70 years trying to convince everyone through books and debates that the god they know is fictitious is really a fairy tale.🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼 I have 40 years left then I’m gone forever…..I’m going to invest my life trying to convince people I don’t know that this is all there is. They aren’t trying to convince anyone other than themselves. It’s a way to appease their guilty conscience, if I KNEW this was all there was and I had a few short years left, the LAST thing I’d be doing is pretending I’m concerned about the future of society to help people of future generations to live without questioning issues beyond the seen. It’s not that they can’t believe, it’s that they don’t want there to be an authority watching over them while they’re plowing hookers, getting sloshed like Hitchens, and being their own sovereign and by evolution NOBODY will ever tell me how to live!!! 🤫

[@michaelgonzalez9058]

Where can the God hypothosis be gotten

[@robertdouglas8895]

Without a design for life on earth, it would not exist and that must come from God. Yet this world is designed with death, guilt and fear as well. Only when we see through the illusion of the latter can we accept eternal life that we all truly are. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." That realization comes not by observation but from prayer. "Judge not by appearance but judge by righteous judgment"

[@jimalexander687]

While Scripture doesn't specifically affirm or deny extraterrestrial life, it does imply there isn't extraterrestrial life in the fact that earth was created first, with the sun, moon and lights in the expanse of the heavens created on the fourth day. As such, creation of the physical universe, according to Scripture is earth-centric.

[@leigheverett4491]

But Earth being created first doesn’t imply that something else wasn’t created afterwards. Could you point me in the direction of the part of scripture that you believe implies that we are alone. I would like to read it to see where you’re coming from.

[@manamanathegreat4986]

Kirk's klown show......

[@robinduggins2561]

You got it, Kirk, at the end there. When scientists are looking for "intelligent life" on other planets they seem to focus on humanoid type beings or beings that have similar characteristics as humans. If God created everything that means any other being on earth, in heaven and everywhere in between including the different categories of angels that we actually know very little about. We know only what God chooses to share with us and as generations pass we can learn so much more by remaining open and not directing information.

[@mashah1085]

So if there's "evidence"...what's the point of faith?

[@michaelgonzalez9058]

Recourse Jesus we expell ,which bring u to GOD

[@htlein]

He look s to find a parallel between his chosen career and life - why does there have to be ANY connection - nice hypothesis of course but basically, he is like a thousand others who are simply confused and needs a prop to explain the inexplicable. WHY BOTHER? If you don't, or can't understand something which seemingly has no explanation wait for more info or accept that you don't understand it or can't explain it. Something I have NEVER understood is why any kind of "higher being" is necessary. If this "being" is by definition beyond understanding .............

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Wikipedia: "Stephen C. Meyer is an American author and former educator. He is an advocate of the pseudoscience of intelligent design and helped found the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College, now Whitworth University. Meyer is a senior fellow of the DI and director of the CSC. Whitworth University is a private, Christian university affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Spokane, Washington. The Wedge Strategy promoted by Stephen is a creationist political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the pseudoscientific intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the Wedge Document. Its goal is to change American culture by shaping public policy to reflect politically conservative fundamentalist evangelical Protestant values." My comment: Stephen uses his science degrees to promote faith in his religious beliefs and override the First Amendment whereas the Scientific Method uses testable, reliable evidence.

[@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed]

WOW! Are you ever totally blind, lost, and deceived! Repent!

[@JohnSmith-bq6nf]

Can you explain how a tornado spinning around can form an airplane in a junkyard?

[@derhafi]

@@AVoiceCryingInTheWildern-vt6ed You don't like this facts about Meyer...ok, but that has no bearing on said facts. He is a professionam liar for a propaganda mill, does no reseatch at all, never has and his boss, Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. openly wants to replace democracy with a fundamentalist theocracy.

[@derhafi]

@@JohnSmith-bq6nf I can explain to you how this analogy is representatice of the complete lack of understanding of evolution and natural selection, by anyone using it.

[@JohnSmith-bq6nf]

@@derhafi Evolution explains how left changed not how it began.

[@tongleekwan1324]

Neither proof in scientific logical sense, nor proof in the court of law

[@htlein]

So basically this guy (who is I think a computer scientist) thinks that we HAVE to have yet another god? How about "shit happens"?

[@ksmyth999]

Stephen C. Meyer although, of course, is welcome to his opinions, does not have any qualifications which would suggest any expertise in the theory of evolution. At least he gives the impression of being intelligent and, at least, having an argument. But he needs to talk to experts in the fields he claims to know something about. The interviewer does not impress me at all, however. His comment can be ignored.

[@patriciaassumpta3684]

Talk about "leaps of faith!" You need to take giant leaps to clear the holes in this nonsense.

[@mikecelentano8573]

Are you a physicist? Not being rude just curious.

[@andyjames6664]

So. Not-credible evidence. It might help if you used English properly.

[@turtlegrams6582]

kirt Is a false teacher ! & underestimates ALMIGHTY AUTHORITY GOD !

[@LastDays7]

he's a calvinist who smokes a lot?

[@tongleekwan1324]

This is not proof, come on