I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design. How does the design of nature facilitate morality? And do humans have freedom of choice or is it merely an illusion?

Welcome to I do the future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm concluding a conversation with Dr Eric

Hedeen, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University in Indiana.

In 2013, his boundaries of science course at Ball State University

came under attack by a national atheist organization

for allowing student discussions in class to consider evidence that nature might not be all there is

and that our lives might have eternal meaning and value within a universe

specifically fitted for beings like us.

Dr. Hadeen is author of the recent book,

Cancelled Science, what some atheists don't want you to see.

He speaks regularly at universities around the country and writes on the evidence for intelligent design at evolution news.org.

Dr. Hadeen, welcome back to the show.

Thank you Andrew. It's good to be with you again.

You've written two articles at evolution

news.org recently that have some interesting insights and they're also quite

timely with regard to events happening in the world right now. The problem of evil is an evergreen

topic of course as there are plenty of examples throughout recorded history of the

evil humans have done to each other. At this moment in history though we are dealing with the effects of the

Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the worst attack of the people of Israel since

the Holocaust. Now your first article is titled Thoughts Thoughts of Evil on a Designed World.

And in a previous episode, we discuss the two causes of suffering

and what that suffering might mean in a designed world

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