Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing "one-sided, divisive political narratives." But American history isn’t the only domain in which the Smithsonian is advancing misinformation. The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, seeking to convince visitors that there’s nothing special about us as human beings. On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid talks to attorney and geologist Dr. Casey Luskin to dissect his explosive new editorial in the New York Post calling on the Smithsonian Museum to stop "miseducating the public" on the history of human beings. Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.2	Well, no doubt you've heard the popular claim that humans and chimps are only 1% different genetically,
0:17.8	suggesting we must be evolutionary cousins with them, just slightly modified chimps.
0:23.1	Well, this statistic has been widely circulated in science journalism, popular science,
0:28.1	public discussions for a lot of years now. But a groundbreaking new study in nature earlier
0:33.6	this year reported significantly higher genetic differences between humans and apes than
0:39.2	previously claimed.
0:40.7	Welcome to ID the Future.
0:42.1	I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:43.8	And today I get to talk with Dr. Casey Luskin about a new article he's written in the New York
0:48.9	Post, calling on the nation's largest science museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.,
0:56.2	to correct and update their exhibits, which are miseducating the public on the history of human beings.
1:02.8	Luskin is Associate Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:07.6	He holds a PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg, as well as graduate degrees
1:12.7	in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and the legal dimensions of the
1:18.5	debate over evolution. Dr. Luskin has been a California licensed attorney since 2005,
1:24.1	practicing primarily in the area of evolution education in public schools, as well as defending
1:29.2	academic freedom for scientists who face discrimination because of their support for intelligent
1:34.4	design. Casey, welcome. Great to be with you, Andrew. Thanks for having me. Well, Casey, congratulations
1:40.9	are in order. You just published an article in the New York Post, where you
1:45.0	talk about a number of things that the Smithsonian Institution gets wrong on human origins in their
1:51.2	museum in Washington, D.C. So that's awesome. You've had this article come out. Let's review what you
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