I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Are evolution and design compatible? I'm Casey Luskin, welcome to I.D. the future.

As you might guess, the question of whether evolution and design are compatible probably depends upon how you define

evolution and what you mean by design. Well a very respectable though we would

say ultimately unsuccessful attempt at merging intelligent design and evolution has been proposed

by a theologian at the University of Helsinki named E. V. Rope Kajonin.

In 2021 he published a thoughtful and serious book titled The Compatibility of Evolution

and Design, published by Paul Great McMillan and Springer Nature.

In the book, Kajonin basically argues that Evolution and Design can be harmonizedized but not just in sort of the very

general sense of change over time or common ancestry. He is actually contending at a

very deep and fundamental level. Evolution evolutionary biology in the mainstream is fully

compatible with design. Well some of my most valuable members of our team here at Discovery

Institute, I'm thinking of Dr. Emily Reeves who we have with us today on

the podcast along with some other great folks we've interviewed as well on this

topic. Steve Dilly and Brian Miller did a book club over the last year and a half

or so reading Kajonin's book and then last year in

2023 we co-authored a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Religions titled

On the relationship between design and evolution,

which is a critical analysis of Professor Kajonan's model.

And we each contribute to different parts of the paper,

and it covers a lot of ground, so we're

doing a series of podcasts with each of the co-authors to discuss their role in the paper and also their take on Professor Gajonan's attempt to harmonize design evolution.

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