Center for Science & Culture

Stephen Meyer, geophysicist with Atlantic Richfield, now of Discovery Institute, spoke on intelligent design (ID) this morning at PCPC. For more information, visit www.intelligentdesign.org

1. Loss of belief in God - fashionable atheism (Richard Dawkins (Oxford), Daniel Dennett (Tufts), Christopher Hichens
2. Devaluation of human life - "eliminate 90% of earth's population" (Erik Pianki, UT-Austin), Peter Singer (Princeton), Steven Pinker (MIT), William Provine (Cornell)
3. Loss of morals - no objective standards of morality (Steven Weinberg, Univ Texas, Physics)

blasphemy challenge
existential funk
materialism (def.) - particles evolved, particles became aware, awareness conceived God
evolution - based on chance variation and natural selection

Proverbs 23:7 As a man thinketh, so is he.

19th century bad science (Freud, Darwin, Marx)
21st century good science - "lay an axe to the Darwinian root"

Signs of design: e.g., Crick & Watson (1957) DNA 4 letter code.

Jesus is returning for his Bride not a harem.