alabasterjar
Sharpshooter
i can't think of a single academic presentation that he has given where he has argued his position from a Judeo-Christian worldview, and there are at least 3 or 4 dozen or more on YouTube and Vimeo.Meyer would get more positive attention if he wasn't working from the position how do we prove jesus.
He has valid criticisms of the current state of biological knowledge but his beliefs bias his view of what these outstanding questions in science mean.
It is a god of the gaps argument at its core. Which in and of itself isn't necessarily an issue, calling the unknown god. The issue is trying to connect this god of the gaps with the god of moses where there is no connection.
It's a philosophical argument masquerading as science, as a philosophical argument it's fun to engage with but what helpful bearing it might have on science I fail to see.
If at some point we have a full grasp on how life evolved from molecules to people then the argument will simply be pushed back to 'well god started the big bang/process toward life's
If someone was willing to state us attaining a firm grasp on how life evolved would dissuade them from belief in god then maybe this exercise is worth going through but I suspect any naturalistic explanations we come up with will fall under his umbrella of naturalistic according to Gods plan.
You state that this is a philosophical argument masquerading as science... That's really funny, since he is using the real scientific method to come to conclusions.
You don't like Dr. Meyer, ok, try this one:
[video=youtube_share;LuEaJDksxls]http://youtu.be/LuEaJDksxls[/video]