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

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John G. West

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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 University.

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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.

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Richard Weikart

Date
September 16, 2019

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__edited, Augustine, Daniel Gasman, Darwin, Darwinism and war, Darwinism as religion, Evolution, From Darwin to Hitler, history of science, Hitler, just war theory, Metascience, Michael Ruse, might makes right, Mike Hawkins, nature red in tooth and claw, Nazism, philosophy of science, progress, Second Reich, Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest, Third Reich}

Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse and the Darwinian Religion

_{Richard Weikart

September 16, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, From Darwin to Hitler author and historian Richard Weikart speaks with Mike Keas about a recent book on Darwinism, Christianity, and war by Michael Ruse. Weikart says that in the course of the book Ruse appears to shift from warning others about treating Darwinism as a secular religion to himself embracing it as such.

New Book Unbelievable: No Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

_{Michael Newton Keas

January 16, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future host Andrew McDiarmid continues his series with science historian Michael Keas about Mike’s new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Here they focus on the myth that a vast cosmos renders humanity insignificant, and in the process, discredits the Judeo-Christian worldview. As Keas notes, science popularizer Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Keas also discusses C.S. Lewis’s take on the matter. Lewis pointed out that atheists have argued that a universe where earth is the lone habitable planet argues against God. And they have argued that a universe filled with many habitable planets argues against God. Heads the atheists win; tails the theists lose. As Lewis and Keas suggest, we are rightly skeptical of such rigged games. Listen in to learn more about this complex and fascinating issue touching on philosophy, theology, and the history of science. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Michael Newton Keas

Date
January 9, 2019

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__edited, Atheism, Carl Sagan, Copernicus, Dark Ages, ET, extraterrestrial life, Flat Earth, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, heliocentrism, history of science, ISI Books, Michael Keas, Michael Newton Keas, Middle Ages, myth, myths, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, science and religion, science history, Unbelievable, warfare thesis, worldview}

New Book Debunks Atheist Myths about the History of Faith and Science

_{Michael Newton Keas

January 9, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with science historian Michael Keas about Keas’ revealing new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Read More ›

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Nancy Pearcey

Date
December 24, 2018

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__edited, Charles Darwin, evidence, history of science, Materialism, philosophical naturalism, Philosophy, speciation, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Pearcey on Darwin and Huxley: Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Them to Their Conclusions

_{Nancy Pearcey

December 24, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, Nancy Pearcey returns to explain what historians know, but few of the rest of us do: If anything, Charles Darwin’s science grew out of his naturalistic philosophy, not the other way around. One historian said Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” His “bulldog”, T.H. Huxley, liked Darwinism more for its philosophy than its science. And even Darwin admitted the evidence wasn’t all it could or should be. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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JP Moreland

Date
November 26, 2018

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__edited, culture, History, history of science, J.P. Moreland, Mike Keas, Philosophy, philosophy of science, Scientism, secularism}

J.P. Moreland: Scientism Fuels Our Culture’s Turmoil

_{JP Moreland

November 26, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Mike Keas and philosopher J. P. Moreland continue their conversation on Moreland’s new book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology. Scientism is the view that science trumps all other knowledge, but Moreland and Keas reveal in this podcast just how much science depends on both philosophy and history. Scientism is, thus, self-defeating. Nevertheless, and as Moreland goes on to argue, it remains “at the bottom of the turmoil that is facing our culture,” and many young people are being sucked into its errors.

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: Darwin’s Pattern for Scientific Dialogue that Darwinists Could Stand to Follow

_{Michael Flannery

August 20, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future host Mike Keas talks a third time with Michael Flannery about Flannery’s new book Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. The surprising word come out of this conversation is how open Darwin was to Wallace’s opposing viewpoint — unlike many Darwinists today. Some of Flannery’s recent experience with historians of science, though, shows there is at least hope in some quarters for increasing academic openness today.