Stephen Meyer
Stephen Meyer
Stephen C. Meyeris an advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design. He helped found the Center for Science and Cultureof the Discovery Institute, which is the main organization behind the intelligent design movement. Before joining the DI, Meyer was a professor at Whitworth College. Meyer is currently a Senior Fellow of the DI and Director of its Center for Science and Culture...
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The Cambrian explosion occurred within an exceedingly narrow window of geologic time, lasting no more than 5 million years,
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None of these people, including Scott, intended to gain a dishonest advantage.
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Imagine you're an archaeologist and you're looking at an inscription, and you say, 'Well, sorry, that looks like it's intelligent, but we can't invoke an intelligent cause because, as a matter of method, we have to limit ourselves to materialistic processes,
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Now the guy who tried to fix the system is sitting here with a target on his back.
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The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.
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It's the mark of honesty when a person takes the witness stand.
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We're mostly trying to stop people from doing dumb things.
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In other words, ... were seeing something that, in any other realm of experience, would trigger an awareness of design. And therefore, we think the best inference is that things were actually designed.
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I really don't care about what these other people do.
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Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life.
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If you've got 13 felonies, and negotiations are, you have to plead to at least one, which one do you plead to? ... The one the Supreme Court can't even agree is a crime.
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Every witness knew their life depends on pleasing the state.
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He tried to separate what is inseparable ? the tie between campaigns and the legislator. You're to search for the truth. I welcome that.
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Well, ... many people have different interpretations of that.