Alfred Russel Wallace and His Friendly Battle with Darwin

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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On this ID the Future episode out of the vault, science historian Michael Flannery concludes his conversation with host Michael Keas about his book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russel Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Wallace was co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by random variation and natural selection. Unlike Darwin, however, he saw teleology or purpose as essential to life’s history, and a teleological view as essential to the life sciences. According to Flannery, Wallace’s views on the nature of the cell, the special attributes of humans, the irreducible nature of life, and the fine tuning of the universe hold up well today. He and Darwin disagreed on much of this, yet they maintained a mutual Read More › Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design. evolution.
0:13.0	Welcome, I'm your host, Mike Keys.
0:17.0	In our last podcast, we were talking with Michael Flannery about his book,
0:21.4	Intelligent Evolution, how Alfred Russell Wallace's world of life challenged Darwinism.
0:27.0	And we're going to continue that conversation now.
0:30.0	In our last episode, we covered a little bit about Darwin's early life as a teenager at the University of Edinburgh and how he was guided by fellow materialists who were part of a little club they had going on campus.
0:45.5	And then this helps explain how Darwin's approach to evolution was very different than that of
0:51.4	Alfred Russell Wallace.
0:53.0	Michael Flannery has made available to us
0:56.0	really the world of Alfred Wallace
0:58.0	and how it was so so different from that of Charles Darwin
1:01.0	even though they were co-discoverers of natural selection.
1:04.1	So welcome back to the show, Michael Flannery.
1:07.8	Thank you, Mike.
1:08.8	Okay, so the last thing that we were covering in the last episode was what's new about this edition of your book, which is an
1:17.2	edited and Bridgement of Wallace's book, plus a lot of great introductory material and
1:22.0	also the foreword by William Dembski.
1:25.0	Yeah, if I might add real quickly, one of the new things that I would like to point out
1:30.4	to readers or potential readers of this book is that I've added an entirely new
1:36.1	appendix C which is called Wallace versus Darwin on religion and humanity what we now know about the kingdom of faith.
1:47.5	So what I'm saying here in, and I'm not going to go into the details, people can get the book
1:52.4	and read it for themselves. But in Appendix
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