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Jonathan Witt: Brangelina Fever Gets Its Own Darwinian Just-So Story
Jonathan Witt
November 30, 2016
Episode 965
Guests Jonathan Witt
Duration 00:06:36
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Why do so many people follow the Hollywood soap opera that is Brangelina? Angela Chen of The Verge recently offered up Darwinism’s favorite go-to explanation: Evolution did it. Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellow Jonathan Witt explains why this explanation just isn’t very fit.
Jonathan Witt Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureJonathan Witt, PhD, is a senior fellow and senior project manager with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. His latest book is Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design (DI Press, 2018) written with Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola. Witt has also authored co-authored Intelligent Design Uncensored , A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature , and The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot . Witt is the lead writer and associate producer for Poverty, Inc., winner of the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award and recipient of over 50 international film festival honors.