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Daniel Reeves

Date
June 1, 2020

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__edited, Alfred Russell Wallace, cells, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwinism, DNA, explanatory deficits, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Gerd Müller, Günter Bechly, Homology, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Isaac Newton, macroevolution, Microevolution, modern synthesis, molecular machinery, nanomachines, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, protoplasm, Robert Boyle, Royal Society of London, speciation, survival of the fittest, teleology}

Of Natural Selection, Explanatory Deficits, and Bunnies Dark and Light

_{Daniel Reeves

June 1, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future we hear the first part of Discovery Institute Education Outreach Associate Daniel Reeves’ talk at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Reeves outlines the meaning of natural selection, and traces its history, starting from Darwin’s early understanding, in the days when cells were viewed as just blobs of protoplasm. Reeves carries the story from there through the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis and into the extended evolutionary synthesis, culminating in a 2016 meeting of the Royal Society on the theory’s continuing — and still unresolved — explanatory deficits.

Virus protection. Vaccine search. Antibodies and viral infection. Immune defense of the body. Attack on antigens 3D illustration

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Michael Egnor

Date
May 13, 2020

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__edited, Aristotle, chance, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, design inference, Evolution, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, mutations, Natural Selection, P.Z. Myers, pandemic, Proteins, random mutations, randomness, RNA, specified complexity, virus}

Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Michael Egnor

May 13, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of random mutations in viruses and draws upon Aristotle to argue that these and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design — in this case, the designed systems — the bodies — that viruses invade.

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John G. West

Date
April 29, 2020

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__edited, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Manes, Darwinism, David Attenborough, Earth First, embryonic recapitulation, Eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, German colonialism, Green Rage, human dignity, human zoos, James Lee, John Derbyshire, Peter Singer, racial differences, scientific Materialism, scientific racism, survival of the fittest, the Second Reich, Thomas Malthus}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 1

_{John G. West

April 29, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, catch the first half of talk political scientist John West recently gave on how Darwinism has poisoned Western culture. In the lecture, delivered at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, West explores how Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism in the twentieth century.

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 22, 2020

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__edited, ancient Greeks, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Discovery U, Dover Trial, Evolution, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Plato, Richard Sternberg, Robert Boyle, scientific revolution, Signature in the Cell, Teach the Controversy}

Stephen Meyer Introduces His New Course on Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 22, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, bestselling author and Center for Science and Culture director Stephen Meyer introduces an exciting and informative new Discovery U video course, “Stephen Meyer Investigates Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design.” Here he sets the stage by recalling a few times when ID made national news headlines, sometimes with Meyer right in the middle of the controversy. He also addresses some of the questions generated by these dustups: Is ID faith-based or science-based? Did the earliest scientists follow ID principles or did they avoid them, as one state education commissioner claimed. And why did two highly regarded research scientists get expelled from their museum positions, and were the expulsions justified?

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Jonathan Wells

Date
April 13, 2020

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__edited, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, macroevolution, Microevolution, pandemic, SARS, SARS CoV-2, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Vaccinations}

Evolution, ID, and the Coronavirus: Jonathan Wells Explains

_{Jonathan Wells

April 13, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, biologist and Discovery Institute senior fellow Jonathan Wells tackles questions of evolution and intelligent design as they relate to the novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2. Is it the product of evolution, in the sense of Darwin’s Origin of Species? Wells argues to the contrary: It’s not a new species; in fact viruses aren’t even considered living species. Does modern evolutionary theory guide medicine’s response? Not when you consider that most of the major treatments being used and pursued actually preceded Darwin. Is intelligent design involved? Yes and no, Wells says. Listen in to get his take on this and more.

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
March 25, 2020

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__edited, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christopher Cousins, craniotomy, Descent of Man, Eugenics, functionalist evolution, human exceptionalism, Joseph Bernard Davis, Materialism, morphology, Paul Brokaw, race, Richard Owen, scientific racism, Structural evolution, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transcendental evolution}

Charles Darwin vs. Richard Owen on Race

_{Michael Newton Keas

March 25, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Mike Keas interviews science historian and bioethicist Michael Flannery about his recent article on Charles Darwin and archrival Richard Owen. Owen was an evolutionist, too, but of a different stripe. Unlike Darwin, he believed that evolution was guided by teleology or purpose, and he saw humans as different from animals not only in degree but in kind. This led him to reject Darwin’s conclusion of a “hierarchy of races,” as well as Darwin’s expectation that the supposedly “less fit” races of humankind ultimately would be exterminated by the so-called “superior” white race. Most Darwinists today aren’t racist, but Darwinism did grease the skids into a dubious scientific racism that became widespread, encouraging racist eugenics campaigns in both Europe and the United States.

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 17, 2020

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__edited, biology, Charles Darwin, cormorants, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, flightless cormorants, Galapagos Islands, Intelligent Design, macroevolution, marine iguanas, Microevolution, natural history, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, tameness, The Natural Limits to Biological Change, The Origin of the Species, Voyage of the Beagle, William Paley}

Paul Nelson Visits the Galapagos Islands, Pt. 2

_{Paul Nelson

February 17, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson continues his discussion with host Andrew McDiarmid about Nelson’s recent visit to the Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin. Nelson explains how Darwin was right — partly. Darwin urged biologists to consider the history of a plant or animal, an idea that was much neglected in the work of his predecessors. As Darwin’s experience on the Galapagos showed, and as Nelson’s experience there echoed, history must be part of our explanation for how species and populations have become the way they are today. At the same time, there are demonstrated limits to evolutionary change, Nelson argues, and so natural history alone cannot be the entire explanation for the origin of biological form.

Flightless cormorant aka Galapagos cormorants - animals and wildlife of Galapagos by sea on Fernandina island, Espinoza Point, Galapagos Islands.

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Paul Nelson

Date
February 12, 2020

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__edited, biogeography, blue-footed boobies, Charles Darwin, cormorants, Darwin Day, Ecuador, Evolution, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos tortoise, Jim Fowler, Lynn Fowler, marine iguanas, National Geographic, penguins}

Paul Nelson Visits Darwin’s Galapagos Islands, Pt. 1

_{Paul Nelson

February 12, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and philosopher of biology Paul Nelson tells about his surprise 60th birthday gift from his wife, a trip to the “scientific Mecca,” the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin, whose own birthday lands today, devoted a big portion of his notes and field books from his Beagle voyage to these amazing islands, where species can be found that exist nowhere else on earth, and where from Darwin’s day until now, the creatures have no fear of humans. These unusual creatures have history, Nelson reminds us, and that history needs explaining. This is the first of three podcasts; there will be more to come.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 10, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting cascade, burden of proof, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, gradualism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Lehigh University, Phillip Johnson, Richard Lewontin, Roger Olsen, The Edge of Evolution, vision, Walter Bradley}

Michael Behe on the Design Idea That Won’t Go Away (and Shouldn’t)

_{Michael Behe

February 10, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Witt caught up with Darwin’s Black Box author and biochemist Michael Behe at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith conference, where the two discuss an idea that many wish would just go away, but hasn’t. Charles Darwin himself told us how his evolutionary theory could be overturned: identify a biological system that couldn’t possibly have evolved by “numerous success successive slight modifications.” It’s to Darwin’s credit that he put his theory in “empirical harm’s way,” to quote philosopher Del Ratzsch, but as Witt and Behe note, Darwin also cleverly placed the burden of proof on his opponents, an arguably dubious maneuver given that his proposed evolutionary mechanism has never once been observed to generate a fundamentally new biological form or molecular machine. Still, Behe has taken up the challenge. Listen in as he discusses how his “irreducible complexity” arguments against Darwinism have fared, and for a teaser about an upcoming anthology where Behe directly engages his critics.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
January 27, 2020

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bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, degradative evolution, Evolution, Galápagos finches, Galen, history of intelligent design, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, modern evolutionary theory, molecular machinery, Neo-Darwinism, protoplasm, William Paley}

Honoring Phillip Johnson, Pt. 3: Michael Behe

_{Michael Behe

January 27, 2020

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On this ID the Future we continue a series of messages from a November 2019 symposium in Berkeley, California, presented in honor of the late Phillip Johnson, who played a crucial role in the flowering of the intelligent design movement. Read More ›