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TruthMuse

Oct 20, 2022

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(100) Stephen C. Meyer: Church Talk State of the Art [Talbot Chapel] - YouTube

The God Hypothesis does it make sense when we look around us.

stephen_33

Oct 20, 2022

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It's often informative to begin with a little background on the presenter of any 'lecture' ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Meyer

"Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958) 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 (DI), which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the DI and Director of the CSC"

That's just so we know where we're starting from! That doesn't necessarily mean he's imposing a certain bias on everything he says but I think his statements have to be treated with caution?

stephen_33

Oct 20, 2022

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At 29:50 Meyer starts talking about little rotary engines inside flagellum within cells - "It's got a rotor, a stator, bushings, a drive-shaft, rotates at a 100,000 rpm. It's high-tech and 'low-life' (?) and there are many other such machines in cells"

He doesn't seem to understand the difference between metaphor or analogy and literal description. Use the world's most powerful microscope and you'll fail to find any literal parts of a human designed engine, just organic mechanisms that behave in a superficially similar way.

But describing cell functions in such a way helps to reinforce the notion that design must have been involved; after all, you don't find engine components in nature do you?

lukegk

Oct 20, 2022

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stephen_33 wrote:

It's often informative to begin with a little background on the presenter of any 'lecture' ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Meyer

"Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958) 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 (DI), which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the DI and Director of the CSC"

That's just so we know where we're starting from! That doesn't necessarily mean he's imposing a certain bias on everything he says but I think his statements have to be treated with caution?

Pseudoscience?

TruthMuse

Oct 20, 2022

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SPickwick wrote:

stephen_33 wrote:

It's often informative to begin with a little background on the presenter of any 'lecture' ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Meyer

"Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958) 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 (DI), which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the DI and Director of the CSC"

That's just so we know where we're starting from! That doesn't necessarily mean he's imposing a certain bias on everything he says but I think his statements have to be treated with caution?

Pseudoscience?

One persons pseudoscience strikes me like misinformation, if you disagree it is pseudoscience or misinformation if you agree it’s science or information.