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Every book Stephen C Meyer recommended on podcasts
Stephen C. Meyer appears on podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience, where he discusses science, philosophy, the origins of life, and the relationship between scientific inquiry and theology. While he engages heavily in complex theoretical debates rather than offering a standard reading list, Meyer has recommended Jeffrey Schwartz's book You Are Not Your Brain, praising the UCLA psychiatrist's work while discussing free will and determinism. In his broader discussions, Meyer frequently references foundational texts to build his historical and scientific arguments. He highlighted Isaac Newton's The Principia and its theological epilogue, The General Scholium, to illustrate Newton's explicit religious motivations for his scientific work. Meyer also discussed Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and Origin of Species as examples of scientific works structured as extended arguments. Furthermore, he referenced N.T. Wright's comprehensive study The Resurrection of the Son of God alongside biblical books such as Kings, Chronicles, and Exodus to examine historical corroborations and the concept of miracles.
Books recommended by Stephen C Meyer
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You Are Not Your Brain
You Are Not Your Brain is a self help and neuroscience book that offers a four step method for overcoming bad habits and compulsive thoughts by changing brain chemistry.
Recommended“I'm a big fan of the work of uh Jeffrey Schwarz the uh uh UCLA psychiatrist has written the book um you are not your brain and um he shows that those those um um psychotherapeutic drugs can be helpful in stabilizing uh people”
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Exodus
Discussed“The Exodus Miracle it says and the Lord caused an East Wind to blow It represents God as an actor within the Matrix of natural law which he otherwise sustains and upholds”
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Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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Search in the Desert
Discussed“And John Mar Marco algro wrote this book called The Sacred Mushroom in the cross it's a very interesting book book”
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The Book of Kings
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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The Magician's Nephew Color Gift Edition
The Magician's Nephew Color Gift Edition by C.
Discussed“CS Lewis the great Christian apologist wrote that wonderful space Trilogy in which he speculates about other planets with with um with other forms of life with other forms of higher conscious life”
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The Principia
Discussed“and he later writes a theological epilogue to the book called The General scholium where he makes the the religious motivation for his scientific work completely explicit and ends up making design arguments right in the in the context of that work”
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide by Isaac Newton and Julia Budenz presents the foundational mathematical and physical principles of modern science.
Discussed“Newton started the principia with um the theory of vortices is beset by difficulties on many sides And then he argued against this the standard theory of gravity in presenting a case for a better view of how gravitation works”
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The Resurrection of the Son of God
Discussed“one is William Lane Craig one is NT Wright with his maerial Tome the resurrection of the Son of God and the other is Gary habas”
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is the celebrated natural history and journal account of the author's epic scientific expedition around the world.
Discussed“Darwin's Origin of Species was he presented as one long argument Newton started the principia with um the theory of vortices is beset by difficulties on many sides”
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Books Stephen C Meyer wrote
- Darwin's Doubt
- The Return of the God Hypothesis
- Signature in the Cell
- Does the New Scientific Evidence about the Origin of Life Put an End to Darwinian Evolution?
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #2008 - Stephen C Meyer | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 10 |
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and I I developed these in a lot of detail in my book Darwin's doubt um uh if we we uh we now know thanks to the genetic Revolution ution the the molecular biological Revolution that if you want to build a new form of life you have at least you have to have new code”
“and when I tell in the in the the new book Return of the god hypothesis it starts there are basically three different lines of evidence”
“First was signatures in the cell about the origin of Life Second was about the question of the origin of the first animals called Darwin's doubt”
“subtitle And the first book was signature in the cell DNA and the evidence for intelligence Do you have a website as well”