Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Journey into the Intelligent Design Movement

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, biologist and intelligent design researcher Ann Gauger tells host Eric Anderson the rest of her story about how she was drawn into the intelligent design movement. The two discuss everything from the challenges she faced making it in a male-dominated field to the evidential power of beauty in the natural world. But how did she end up in the ID movement? After stepping out of a promising career as a research scientist to focus on her family and meeting the needs of an autistic child, she assumed that her life as a scientist was behind her. But then several years later she began reading the work of Darwin skeptics and intelligent design trailblazers—Phillip Johnson, Jonathan Read More ›

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:10.0	Welcome to I. I'm Eric Anderson and today I'm
0:15.4	I'm Eric Anderson and today I'm pleased to bring you the second half of my
0:17.1	conversation with Dr. Ann Gager about her personal journey to becoming one of the
0:21.2	well-known figures in the debate over evolution and
0:23.5	intelligent design. Previously Dr. Gager shared her experiences growing up and her
0:28.2	schooling earning a degree in biology from MIT, a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington, and post-doc work
0:35.9	in molecular biology at Harvard.
0:38.4	In the next part of our conversation, she shares a personal and family challenge that took her out
0:42.1	of active research for many years, and how she later became acquainted with intelligent design and returned to active work in her love of biology.
0:50.0	Dr Gager shares what it has meant to her to continue pursuing the evidence where it leads, even in the face of challenges.
0:56.0	We now rejoin the conversation with Dr Gager explaining what happened toward the end of her postdoc research at Harvard.
1:02.0	At the end of the postdoc phase, which was 1992,
1:07.0	I discovered that my eldest, my daughter,
1:11.2	was developmentally delayed.
1:13.6	Okay.
1:14.6	She was significantly delayed and we now know she has a form of autism.
1:20.4	So I decided I needed to stay home with the kids, take care of them.
1:24.5	They were my priority.
1:26.5	So I said goodbye to science yet again.
1:29.5	Wow.
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