Astrophysicist Bijan Nemati on Why Intelligent Design Matters

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, astrophysicist and intelligent design proponent Bijan Nemati shares the first part of his story of science and faith. Those who follow Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture may know Nemati from his appearance in the popular ID documentary The Privileged Planet. Born and raised in Iran, he moved to the United States shortly before the Iranian revolution, became an atheist in college, but eventually found his way to a strong religious faith, in part through his exposure to the scientific evidence for intelligent design, first in biology and then in cosmology. Along the way he landed a high-level job with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and became a leading expert in space interferometer telescopes Read More ›

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Eric Anderson and I'm continuing our series talking
0:16.7	with members of the intelligent design community about their stories.
0:19.8	Their backgrounds and experiences, why they're involved with intelligent design,
0:24.1	the challenges they've faced,
0:25.4	and the importance of following the evidence where it leads.
0:28.0	In short, why it matters.
0:30.1	I'm pleased to be joined today by Dr. Bijon-Namari, president and chief scientist at Tell
0:34.8	Us One Scientific. Welcome, Bichon.
0:37.1	Hi, good to be with you.
0:39.1	So Bichon, normally when we begin a podcast, we our guests degrees and you know impressive
0:44.6	accomplishments and qualifications but we'll talk about all those during our
0:48.0	time together today so I'd like to just go ahead and jump right in if that's okay
0:51.1	sure sounds good so Bijon a lot of our listeners will remember seeing
0:55.6	you in the privileged planet. Yeah that was a great opportunity and in some ways it's it was a very memorable time.
1:04.0	I really enjoyed being part of that.
1:05.7	Great, let's talk about that a little bit later.
1:07.6	But tell me a little bit about your story.
1:09.0	Where were you born?
1:10.0	Where did you spend your early years?
1:11.8	Yeah, I was born in Iran in the 60s,
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