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Uncommon Knowledge · 2026-04-20 · 62 min · 10,030 words

Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Did the universe come into existence by accident? Or did something intend it, or intend us? A mathematician, John Lennox, a historian of science, Stephen Meyer, and a scientist, James Tour. Uncommon knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, recording today in Salzburg, Austria.

I'm Peter Robinson. The director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Stephen Meyer started his professional life as a geophysicist. Then he went back to school and earned a doctorate from Cambridge in the history and philosophy of science. Stephen Meyer's most recent book, The Return of the God Hypothesis. John Lennox is the professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford Emeritus.

He serves as president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. John Lennox's most recent book, God, AI, and the End of History. James Tour is the W. F. Chow Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, where he also teaches materials science and nanoengineering.

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