Meyer begins with the Russian dissident, Nobel laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008), and his statement "… I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: 'Men have forgotten God.' The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century." May 1983: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-men-have-forgotten-god-speech/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Meyer lists modern America's "Godless" indicators including: teen suicide epidemic, mass shootings, family breakdown/out of wedlock births (i.e., denial of the marriage covenant), gender confusion/medical mutilation, promiscuity/illegitimacy/abortion, crime waves/fentynal deaths (pharmakeia). And then he presents recent poll data showing a sudden decline in the belief in GOD among the young. Follow-up research revealed: "…the findings of science make the existence of GOD less probable", "science undermines the belief in GOD", and "the unguided evolution of life", all rooted in Darwinianism, i.e., the macroevolution worldview.
To illustrate, recalling the weeping camera operator incident during a 2020 interview with Eric Metaxas: After her college "re-education" by atheistic professors, she was hearing the scientific evidence that supports Christian faith. Meyer then shows five "new (scientific) atheists" and their wildly popular books by: Dawkins, Krauss, Hawking, Nye, Weinberg, and Gould, and their atheistic nihilism with it's pointless meaning. Thus the "prime reality question", i.e., the process which everything else came. The two worldviews, naturalism/materialism (determinism) or a personal Creator revealed in Scripture, are in opposition.
Next he explains a graphic of naturalism/materialism and seven tenets that result from it. He presents a worldview principle described in Proverbs 23:7, "As one thinks so is he (so he acts)", thus ideas have consequences.
[Ref: R.C. Sproul's 35-part video lectures, https://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/consequences-of-ideas ] Then the 2008 film Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed vividly shows the war against the two competing worldviews: https://www.discovery.org/v/expelled-no-intelligence-allowed-supertrailer/ a 7 min trailer. He relates the suicide of young Jesse Kilgore proselytized in college by atheists, the progression from doubt to anger to loss of faith then hope.
Earlier Meyer (born 1958) discussed "cognitive dissonance" of the camera operator, now describes his own "metaphysical anxiety" as a 14-year old, and the "god is dead" movement (circa 1960-70's), leading to a causal factor in the 1999 Columbine High School murders. Colleagues John West and Nancy Pearcey at Discovery Institute and the effects of atheistic philosophies from Darwin (life origins), Marx (utopian vision) and Freud (guilt).
Next, Dr. Meyer brings the good news science offers in support of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs about a personal Creator as revealed in Scripture. He reviews three major discoveries: galaxies and the expanding universe had a beginning (Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953), Allan Sandage (1926 - 2010), et al), the universe is "fine tuned" for life (Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes, 2016), and molecular revolution, the infusion of digital information (DNA code) within the cell (J.D. Watson (born 1928 ) and Francis Crick (1916 - 2004), Michael Behe (born 1952), et al). The best explanation, of competing hypothesis of these, is the GOD of the Bible (John Lennox (born 1943), Meyer et al).
Previously Provided Links: 1 hr 6 min: https://stephencmeyer.org/books/return-of-the-god-hypothesis/ and his book: https://www.difa3iat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Meyer-Signature-in-the-Cell-DNA-Evidence-for-Intelligent-Design-2009.pdf
Sola DEO Gloria, May 2023 by
Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958), in the video "Does Science Point to GOD?" lecture at Denton Bible Church and his book reviews the history of scientific thinkers and the contemporary "new atheist" elites who deny GOD. He explains that early modern scientists sought to study the natural world believing in the Creator GOD.
https://www.discovery.org/p/meyer/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C._Meyer
The Bible asserts nature is GOD's handiwork (Genesis 1, Psalm 8, 19, Romans 1, etc.) revealing GOD's attributes. Over time, the sociologist Rodney William Stark (1934-2022) became a believer and documented the history of "science" by Christian thinkers. The metaphors such as two books: Nature & Scripture, Clock mechanism, Laws of Nature from an "intelligent and powerful being". Then Meyer notes early in the 19th century, illustrated by LaPlace in 1802, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace the origins of "scientific materialism", the "worldview" excluding supernaturalism which quickly caught on in many disciplines. But early in the 20th century, a lawyer turned astronomer, Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953), using the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California and photographic technology, demonstrated a revolutionary description of the universe. He and others settled the controversy showing galaxies outside our own, leading later to awareness of an expanding universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe [At best, Hubble was probably agnostic. Interestingly, Meyer fails to mention the obvious parallel with his opening story of the camera operator and Hubble's early church schooling. This author is aware of how "modernism" and the war against the Bible was raging during Hubble's career. https://theaquilareport.com/the-auburn-heresy/ {by Gordon Clark (1902 - 1985)} ]
Meyer describes the elite astronomers resistance to this new view of the universe implying the universe had a beginning [denial, hinting toward elitism] https://www.icr.org/article/lifting-curtain-on-scientific-elitism Meyer introduces Hubble's student, Allan Sandage (1926 - 2010), and his developing awareness of GOD's "Book of Nature". https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/personal-observations-on-allan-sandages-spiritual-journey Appears "Science" is re-discovering Bible origins (Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 45; Titus 1:2; 2 Peter 3:3, etc.).
Next, Dr. Meyer leads from "fine tuning" of parameters in the universe that enables life-sustaining conditions to the "molecular biological revolution" led in 1958 by the atheist Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916 - 2004), and later the "genetic code" of living creatures. Meyer brings the authors of a paper pointing to "intelligent cause" https://www.cogmessenger.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Mystery_of_Life_Origin.pdf and mentored by one of the authors, Charles Thaxton (born 1939) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thaxton
Referring back to Darwin's analytical method by his mentor, Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875), Meyer explains "competing hypothesis" in analyzing intelligent design hypothesis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iDsPExD0Js
Information, such as words in a sentence, computer software code, require an intelligent source, a mind.
Finally, Meyer explains the 3 sources of life: infusion of sequential information over time, a beginning of the universe and its fine-tuning. True objective science rejects materialism. Only Biblical Theism can explain all 3. Meyer compares and concludes why only a transcendent Being has revealed the Creation, the Book of Nature, as revealed in the Book of Scripture. https://www.discovery.org/a/fine-tuning-parameters/
Many scientists are now abandoning the deceit of weak minds imagining a vain thing.
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"J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick, 'Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid [DNA]' Nature, April 25, 1953. It revolutionized biology." Meyer, Signature in the Cell, pg. 70
Illustrative Cell Animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkdQhNdzHU&ab_channel=HarperOne%28animprintofHarperCollins%29
…more cell science by Michael Behe:
Cellular "machines": https://www.discovery.org/v/sotc6-bacteria/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw94qm4qdn8
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Changing the subject to the Creator GOD, the theologian and Protestant pastor, the late R.C. Sproul (1939 - 2017) teaches fundamental facts concerning GOD's eternal "Being" in this 2004 lecture, 48 mins:
Dr. Sproul established his ministry organization, Ligonier Ministries, Orlando, Florida. In the next video, he teaches the 3 distinct Bible-belief systems and their origins in Christian church history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fafICBts8&ab_channel=LigonierMinistries
A Reformed theologian, he was pastor of St. Andrews Episcopal church in Sanford, FL. His focus is GOD’s Holiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Sproul
“Renewing Your Mind” is on many Christian radio programs, i.e., Joy620 AM daily at 10:30am and 6:30pm. https://renewingyourmind.org/
.. .. .. ..For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the Lord, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:18 NASB https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45&version=NASB1995
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For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you professyour faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!... Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Romans 10:10-15, 17 (NIV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10&version=NIV