Tag: history of science

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Paul Nelson

Date
January 25, 2023

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Albert Einstein, Barry Marshall, Challenger disaster, consensus science, conservative behavior, consolidating science, Cornel University, courage, decline of science, Delta function, disruption, disruptive science, federal science funding, follow the science, Gregor Mendel, groundbreaking science, herd effect, history of science, incremental science, Intelligent Design, John Horgan, Michael Park, Paul Nelson, peptic ulcers, Peter Thiel, Richard Feynman, risk, risky behavior, Robert Crowther, scientific consensus, scientific creativity, scientific dogma, scientific progress, scientific specialization, scientific trailblazers, self-citation, The End of Science, The Paradox of Consensus, Thomas Gold, Watson and Crick}

Nature Paper: Groundbreaking Science on the Decline

_{Paul Nelson

January 25, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future philosopher of science Paul Nelson discusses a new paper in Nature making waves in the scientific community, “Papers and Patents are Becoming Less Disruptive over Time.” According to Michael Park and his fellow researchers, the rate of groundbreaking scientific discoveries is declining while the percentage of consolidating (or incremental) science is coming to dominate. Is the spirit of groundbreaking scientific discovery withering, and if so, why? Nelson notes a 1997 book by John Horgan, The End of Science. Nelson credits Horgan for seeing the trend a generation ahead of the Park paper, but Nelson breaks with Horgan on the diagnosis. Horgan posits that groundbreaking science is declining because we have already made most of the Read More ›

01.10.2022, Paris France: illustrated Portrait of Louis Pasteur. High quality illustration

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 21, 2022

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Ann Gauger, anthrax, antiseptic conditions, Bacteria, beer making, chemistry, cholera, Creation, experimentation, fermentation, germ theory, history of science, Ignaz Semmelweis, immunization, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Louis Pasteur 200th birthday, Louis Pasteur anniversary, microbiology, microorganisms, Napoleon III, origin of life, paralysis, pasteurization, rabies, Robert Koch, Science and faith, silk, silkworm disease, silkworms, spontaneous generation, stroke, sugar making, typhoid, vaccine, virus, wine making, wishful thinking}

The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

_{Ann Gauger

December 21, 2022

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December 27, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist whose scientific breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and whose work on microbes sounded the death knell of the idea of spontaneous generation. On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger walks listeners through the triumphs, flaws, and tragedies in the life of this extraordinary individual. In the nineteenth century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable, since it was thought that spontaneous generation of worms, mold, and other life forms occurred all the time in rotting meat and dirty rags. Pasteur constructed an experiment demonstrating that these “spontaneously” arising worms and such Read More ›

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
March 14, 2022

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anti-design, apologetics, Atheism, biological complexity argument, Casey Luskin, Christian apologetics, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Cosmological Argument, Darwinian Evolution, demarcation argument, design argument, design argument from human reason, Evolution, fine tuning of physics, history of science, Human Reason, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, natural science, origin of life argument, origin of the universe Kalam cosmological argument, philosophical materialism, philosophy of science, Privileged Planet argument, public evidence scientism, purpose, teleology, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel}

Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

_{Jay Richards

March 14, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards offers advices on engaging with evolutionists over the issues of origins, evolution, and intelligent design. In his conversation with host Casey Luskin, he says that if someone tells you he’s a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. The latter term, in particular, can have widely varying meanings, and the average lay persons who see themselves as theistic evolutionists likely see God as actively and creatively working in the history of life to steer evolutionary outcomes, including the origin of humanity. What they may not realize is that such a view takes them well outside the bounds of what academic theistic evolutionists generally mean by the term Read More ›

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John Bloom

Date
January 31, 2022

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apologetics, astrology, astronomy, Babylonian astrology, birth of science, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Christianity, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, fall of man, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, gnosticism, history of science, imago dei, Johannes Kepler, John Bloom, Judeo-Christian, laws of nature, monotheism, near eastern studies, Nicolaus Copernicus, paganism, physics, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Theism}

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

_{John Bloom

January 31, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future Biola University physicist John Bloom discusses his chapter in the recent anthology The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by host Casey Luskin. Bloom’s focus in his contributed chapter is the pivotal role of Christianity in the rise of science. Bloom, the academic director of Biola’s master’s program in science and religion, draws on his PhD training in physics but also on his PhD in ancient Near Eastern studies and his study of the history of science. Here he argues that while the Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science, science did not take off, was not born, until a cluster of crucial ideas Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 22, 2021

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Adolf Hitler, Bioethics, biological determinism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Davenport, colonialism, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, embryonic gene editing, Ernst Haeckel, Ernst Rüdin, Eugen Fischer, Eugenics, Euthanasia, evolutionary science, Francis Galton, From Darwin to Hitler, history of science, human-animal chimeras, imago dei, immoral experimentation, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, miscegenation, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, nihilism, No-True-Scotsman fallacy, Nordic racism, pseudoscience, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Death of Humanity, The Origin of Species, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Universal Human Rights, Yuval Noah Harari}

Richard Weikart on Scientific Racism and the War on Humanity

_{Richard Weikart

November 22, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future again spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Historian Richard Weikart and host Casey Luskin discuss Weikart’s contribution to the new anthology, his essay “How Evil Has Been Done in the Name of Science.” As Weikart explains, over the past century and a half, science has been misused to fuel racist policies and undermine human rights. Darwinian ideas helped lay the groundwork for Nazi ideology in Germany. And we shouldn’t imagine the problem was restricted to Nazi Germany. Scientific racism also reared its head in the United States, including in the long-running and infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment. More broadly, a marriage of scientism and evolutionary thinking continues to undermine the idea of inherent human worth Read More ›

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 9, 2021

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agnosticism, Atheism, education, extraterrestrials, faith, history of science, Intelligent Design, loss of faith, Marc Bernier, medicine, Nazi, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, scientific revolution}

Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 9, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, listen to host Marc Bernier ask Stephen Meyer perceptive and wide-ranging questions about everything from the possibility of extraterrestrials, to the role of intelligent design in medicine and education, to meaning and the reliability of the mind. The discussion also turns to Meyer’s bestselling new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and the reconciliation of science and faith. At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects,” and in reply Meyer talks about his personal experience grappling with the relationship between science and faith, and tells about a warning he used to give college students in a class he taught. This interview originally appeared on The Marc Bernier Read More ›

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John Lennox

Date
October 30, 2020

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Against the Tide, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Cambridge University, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Christianity, communism, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Georges LeMaitre, history of science, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Atheism

_{John Lennox

October 30, 2020

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On this ID the Future, John Lennox tells about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seeing what it does to rationality itself. In his continuing conversation with host and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, Lennox relates how in his interactions with famous religiously skeptical scientists, he emphasizes that the Judeo-Christian worldview did much to give us science. When skeptical scientists ask the Oxford mathematician and philosopher how Christianity could have anything to say to science, Lennox is ready with an answer. This is the second part of a three-part conversation in which Lennox discusses his new documentary, Against the Tide, filmed with actor and host Read More ›

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Michael Newton Keas

Date
July 15, 2020

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__edited, Carl Sagan, Copernican Principle, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, dehumanization, design for discovery, fifth element, Fontenelle, Galileo, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentrism, history of science, Johannes Kepler, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Privileged Planet, quintessence}

Cosmos: Possible Worlds and the Copernican Demotion Myth

_{Michael Newton Keas

July 15, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Jay Richards interviews historian of science Michael Keas about a new documentary claiming that Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the solar system “demoted” humans from the place of honor at the center of everything. Neil deGrasse Tyson champions this persistent myth in episode 8 of the new National Geographic series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. The reality is quite different. As Keas explains, in Copernicus’s day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected, while the starry heavens were considered the place of honor. Keas and Richards trace the history of the demotion myth and discuss how Copernicus, Kepler, and other luminaries of the Read More ›

The lion Aslan from C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 13, 2020

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__edited, Academic Freedom, Angus Menuge, Antony Flew, apologetics, argument from design, argument from functional complexity, argument from joy, argument from natural beauty, argument from reason, argument from suboptimal design, C.S. Lewis, history of science, Intelligent Design, natural law, open inquiry, Oxford Socratic Club, problem of pain, Theism, Victor Reppert}

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West

July 13, 2020

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On the episode of ID the Future we bring you a production by Discovery Institute about C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design. With contributions by Discovery Institute’s John West and philosophers Victor Reppert and Angus Menuge, we hear about Lewis’s early doubts about God based in part on an argument from undesign or “bad design” in nature, and how he moved from this position to developing multiple arguments for intelligent design. Another contribution he made to the intelligent design project wasn’t a specific argument but the example he set. As John West explains near the end of the episode, one of his greatest contributions was a commitment to free inquiry and open debate, one he modeled while a professor at Oxford Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
May 6, 2020

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__edited, abiogenesis, Biological Information, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Sagan, Cassini, Christianity and Science, cosmos, Enceladus, Evolution, history of science, hydrothermal vents, Johann Gregor Mendel, John Sutherland, Miller-Urey experiment, Mystery of Life’s Origin, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, origin of life, Saturn, scientific Materialism, Stephen C. Meyer, Unbelievable, William Herschel}

Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ ‘Most Plausible’ Creation Myths

_{Michael Newton Keas

May 6, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards hosts science historian Michael Keas in another conversation about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. They talk this time about what the show itself calls its “most plausible creation myth… for the origin of life,” involving hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean floor — with no mention at all of the equally deep scientific problems with the idea. Tyson’s imagination wanders from there to a moon of Saturn to the Cambrian explosion, everywhere supposing that just because one or two necessary conditions exist for life, that’s all the explanation that’s needed. Richards and Keas ably explore why this is untrue.