I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Hello I'm your host today Jonathan Witt and I'm pleased to have on the show our newest Discovery Institute press author Neil Thomas.

Welcome, Neil.

Hello.

I want to begin just by giving you a little background on Neil Thomas.

He is a Reader Emeritus in the University of Durham, England. A reader in British academic speak is equivalent to a research

professor here in the United States. He's a longtime member of the British Rationalist Association and is the author of the newly released. long time

agnostic,

discovers the case for design.

He studied classical studies and European languages at the universities of Oxford, Munich, and Cardiff,

before taking up his post in the German section of the School of European Languages and Literature at Durham University in 1976.

There is teaching involved a broad spectrum of specialisms, including Germanic philosophy,

medieval literature, the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment,

and modern German history and literature.

He also taught modules on the propaganda use of the German language

used by both the Nazis and by functionaries

of the old German Democratic Republic.

We will see as we go a little bit further

how that training, that background knowledge

actually played an interesting role

as he began to study Darwinism.

He's published over 40 articles in various refereed journals and

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