Episode Transcript: #2008 - Stephen C. Meyer
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First of all, thank you for being here. Appreciate it.
It is great to be here, Joe. Thanks for having me.
I've really enjoyed watching some of your videos online and listening to these arguments.
This idea of intelligent design, my question to you right off the bat was,
did you have a notion in your mind already that you were trying to prove,
or was this something that you sort of started to believe upon the preponderance of evidence?
It was more the latter, but I had, by the time I first encountered it,
a philosophical framework that made me open to it.
I had a long, protracted religious conversion from late high school all the way through college.
It was the last thing from a Damascus Road experience.
How did it happen?
It was a process of philosophical deliberation. It was not really based on science initially.
I started having weird existential questions when I was 14 years old after I'd broken my leg in a skiing accident.
Questions like, well, what's it going to matter in 100 years?
There's this great quote from Bertrand Russell where he says,
all the noonday genius of human achievement is destined for extinction in the vast heat death of the solar system.
I had never encountered Bertrand Russell as a 14-year-old, but I later encountered that quote and I thought,