(Non-)material(istic) shifts in science and philosophy

Richard Dawkins, one of the prominent leaders of the ‘no purpose, no design’ hypothesis, views the cosmos acting with “blind, pitiless indifference.”

Enters Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, philosopher of science and author of books like “Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design”, who proposes a radical counter position to the materialists:

“What is striking to me is that the big discoveries that we’ve made about where the universe came from, the structure of the universe, the fine-tuning of the universe, the fact that the universe had a beginning, the complexity of life, the information stored in life, the information processing systems in life, all of these things have turned out to be deeply surprising and unexpected from that perspective of the 19th scientific materialism that we inherited and that was popularized. No materialist expected the universe to have a beginning.”

New beginnings abound!?

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