Stephen C. Meyer Philosopher and Historian of Science

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Spanning three decades, Steve Meyer has spoken at hundreds of universities, classrooms, churches, and public fora. Stay tuned for upcoming lectures, debates, and online webinars. Or, browse past events and view videos of recorded events. To request that Stephen Meyer speak at your event, submit a speaker request.

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November
11
Nov
21
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2020

Official Launch of Michael Behe's Latest Book — A Mousetrap for Darwin

Global Webinar Featuring an Interview and Q&A with the Author
Daniel Reeves
Date
November
11
Nov
21
21
2020
Online Event
Darwin’s Black Box thrust Michael Behe to the forefront of the intelligent design movement. The Lehigh University biochemist has haunted the dreams of Darwinists ever since. Each of his three books sparked a firestorm of criticism, in everything from the New York Times and the journal Science to the private blogs of professional atheists. Over the years, Behe has had a delightful time rebutting each attack, and now his responses are collected in a single volume entitled A Mousetrap for Darwin. The book’s title alludes to Behe’s homey illustration for his idea of irreducible complexity. A mousetrap with a missing part doesn’t work just a little worse. It doesn’t work at all. The same goes for the bacterial flagellum pictured on the cover of the new collection. Ditto for an …
Date
October
10
Oct
21
21
2020

Official Launch of "The Miracle of the Cell" by Michael Denton

Global Webinar Featuring an Interview and Q&A with the Author
Daniel Reeves
Date
October
10
Oct
21
21
2020
n/a
Online Event

The Miracle of the Cell will explore yet another set of narrowly fine-tuned parameters that make human life — and all life — possible in an otherwise inhospitable universe. Dr. Denton will be interviewed on the subject of his new book and will answer audience questions submitted by readers like yourself.

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September
09
Sep
12
12
2020

The Promise of Design Triangulation

A Webinar Featuring Dr. Paul Nelson and Hosted by the Science & Culture Network
Daniel Reeves
Date
September
09
Sep
12
12
2020
Online Event
The Science & Culture Network Chapter in Colorado, with support from Chapters in Houston and Southern California, invites you to join this upcoming webinar and Q&A with Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Paul Nelson. Dr. Nelson will explain the concept of design triangulation and explore its promising application to biological discovery. Here’s a thought to whet your appetite. Have you ever successfully figured out how something complicated worked by observing the system carefully and then inferring from what you can see to what you haven’t yet seen? If so, you have used a method of reasoning we can call design triangulation. Design triangulation is widely employed in biology (in practice, if not in name) to predict the functional features of cells or …
Date
July
07
Jul
30
30
2020

Beauty, Coherence, Semiotics and Coronavirus

UK Centre for Intelligent Design Webinars on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Editor
Date
July
07
Jul
30
30
2020

We are pleased to announce that the UK Centre for Intelligent Design will present a series of live-streamed webinars entitled ‘Design in Virology?’

Date
July
07
Jul
23
23
2020

The Molecular Biology of Coronaviruses

UK Centre for Intelligent Design Webinars on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Editor
Date
July
07
Jul
23
23
2020
Second in a series of webinars seeking to explain and explore the details and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic We are pleased to announce that the UK Centre for Intelligent Design will present a series of  live-streamed webinars entitled ‘Design in Virology?’  This series will explore some of the biological and biochemical dimensions of COVID-19 and discuss their implications. Webinar presenters include Michael Behe (Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, Professor at Lehigh University, and author of Darwin’s Black Box, The Edge of Evolution, and Darwin Devolves), Jonathan McLatchie (Assistant Professor at Sattler College), and Hugo van Woerden (Director of Public Health at Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland). Each presenter will offer some time …
Date
July
07
Jul
17
17
2020

The Biochemical Basis of COVID-19

UK Centre for Intelligent Design Webinars on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Editor
Date
July
07
Jul
17
17
2020
First in a series of webinars seeking to explain and explore the details and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic We are pleased to announce that the UK Centre for Intelligent Design will present a series of  live-streamed webinars entitled ‘Design in Virology?’  This series will explore some of the biological and biochemical dimensions of COVID-19 and discuss their implications. Webinar presenters include Michael Behe (Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, Professor at Lehigh University, and author of Darwin’s Black Box, The Edge of Evolution, and Darwin Devolves), Jonathan McLatchie (Assistant Professor at Sattler College), and Hugo van Woerden (Director of Public Health at Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland). Each presenter will offer some time …
Date
July
07
Jul
10
10
2020

C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

The Center for Science and Culture
Date
July
07
Jul
10
10
2020
Seattle, WA
The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during  the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …
Date
July
07
Jul
10
10
2020

The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

The Center for Science and Culture
Date
July
07
Jul
10
10
2020
Seattle, WA

The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare students to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Date
June
06
Jun
13
13
2020

Michael Behe on Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution

The Center for Science and Culture
Date
June
06
Jun
13
13
2020
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Online Event
In this online Zoom webinar, Dr. Behe will review the biochemistry of viruses in general and COVID-19 in particular. He will use these topical examples to illustrate a fundamental principle: Darwinian and other unintelligent evolutionary mechanisms can change life marginally, in ways that are medically important, yet they cannot explain life’s complex structure. Rather, the elegant molecular structures of life required purposeful intelligent design. The Colorado, Houston, and Southern California Chapters of Discovery Institute’s Science & Culture Network are pleased to host this upcoming event. To stay in touch with the Chapters, or to donate towards this and other events, please visit their website at https://scienceandculture.network Event …
Date
May
05
May
16
16
2020

ISI Webinar on Science, Scientism, and Society

John G. West
Date
May
05
May
16
16
2020
Online Event

From artificial intelligence to mandatory stay-at-home orders and everything in-between, what role should scientists — and their modern approach to scientific investigation — play in the critical decisions that we must make on such controversial issues?

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