abiogenesis,
Adolf Hitler,
agnosticism,
Atheism,
Brian Miller,
Charles Thaxton,
Darwin's Doubt,
Douglas Axe,
Eric Metaxas,
Evolution,
Günter Bechly,
Intelligent Design,
James Tour,
Jews,
materialism,
Nazi Germany,
origin of life,
Petra Moser,
Richard Sternberg,
Roger Olsen,
Stanford University,
Stephen Meyer,
The Mystery of Life’s Origin,
United States,
Ur-text,
Walter Bradley
Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany “revolutionized U.S. science and innovation,” as Stanford University historian Petra Moser and others have pointed out. Hitler’s loss was our gain. Something not entirely dissimilar is the case in the history of the intelligent design movement and its own revolution. On his radio show today, Eric Metaxas talked with Darwin’s Doubt author Stephen Meyer about the reissue of the expanded version of the Ur-text of intelligent design, a 35th anniversary edition of The Mystery of Life’s Origin. Dr. Meyer contributed a new chapter, as did James Tour, Brian Miller, and other scientists who have come to doubt purely materialist accounts of how the first life arose. Steve points out to Eric that “Some of our very best scientists are refugees from top-level institutions in the mainstream science establishment.”…