Design or Chance? Casey Luskin on The Andrew Klavan Show

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On this ID The Future, we're pleased to share Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan's recent interview with Dr. Casey Luskin. Klavan loves science, but he smells a rat when famous scientists like Richard Dawkins use their displaced authority to make proclamations about science's relationship with religion. So after reading Luskin's recent Daily Wire article about progressives and their long history of banning intelligent design from the classroom, Klavan invited Luskin on his show to help his viewers better understand the theory of intelligent design and the reality of the evolutionary paradigm. Luskin starts with the meanings of evolution and the questions that guide intelligent design researchers. He cites plenty of examples of design from biology and cosmology. Klavan then asks how badly people get censored for considering design perspectives in their work. Luskin explains, using the case of physicist Eric Hedin and his treatment at Ball State University as an example. Luskin rounds out the conversation by explaining how intelligent design uses the scientific method to detect the hallmarks of design in both living systems and the universe at large. "Science never gives us, under any conditions, absolute certainty," Luskin notes. "What it can allow us to do, though, is we can use the methods of historical sciences to infer the best explanation for a given situation given what we know about how the world works."

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:18.0	Hello everyone welcome to another episode of ID the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today we're sharing with you Casey Luskin's recent interview with Daily Wire host Andrew Clavin on the Andrew
0:25.3	Clavin show.
0:27.3	Luskin is Associate Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:32.4	He holds graduate degrees in science and law and a PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg.
0:39.0	As many of you know, Luskin is a long time and much loved voice on ID the future, both as a host and a guest.
0:47.4	In this conversation, Andrew Clavin asks Luskin to unpack the debate over evolution and intelligent design for his viewers.
0:55.4	Luscan reviews the basics of intelligent design and gives lots of examples of design from
1:00.5	biology and cosmology. He talks about the scientists and scholars who have been censored for considering design perspectives in their work.
1:09.0	And he gives us a good reminder of the limits of science and the ways in which science can guide us on a quest to understand events that occurred in the natural world in the remote past.
1:20.0	Here now is Casey Aluskin and Andrew Cleven. Hey, it's Andrew Clavin, with this week's
1:34.0	a...
1:37.0	Hey, it's Andrew Clavin with this week's interview.
1:42.0	The other night I watched an interview, a really
1:44.0	interesting interview with Richard Dawkins over at my friends at
1:47.4	Trigonometry, Constantine Keeson and Francis Foster. What always
1:51.7	interests me about Dawkins is there's so much I agree with him about and I certainly
1:56.4	love science and there's so much I disagree with him about that he doesn't seem to know anything
2:01.6	about. When he talks about religion it's not that I think he doesn't seem to know anything about when he talks about religion it's not that I
2:04.4	think he doesn't have a right to his opinion it's a thing he knows anything about
2:08.4	religion his basic argument is that Darwinian evolution explains why things look as if they were created by a
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