ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.

Today, I'm reading for you an essay by Yale University Professor of Computer Science, David Galerenter, published in the spring

2019 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. It's titled, Giving Up Darwin, a fond farewell to a brilliant

and beautiful theory. Galerinter's essay raised many an eyebrow when it was published five years ago,

and for good reason. Here's an published five years ago, and for good

reason. Here's an accomplished writer, artist, and thinker, famed both for his specific scientific

expertise and for his cultural, political, and historical reflections, publicly declaring that

Darwin's brilliant and beautiful scientific theory has now been overtaken by science.

Galerntor credits reading Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt as the primary cause of his rejecting

neo-Darwinian evolution, calling Darwin's Doubt one of the most important books in a generation.

Few open-minded people will finish it with their faith in

Darwin intact. Galenther is no creationist, nor is he a proponent of intelligent design,

but he is one of a growing number of scientists and thinkers, bold enough to look beyond a

Darwinian paradigm to explain the development of life on earth.

I'm reading Galerinter's essay to mark the five-year anniversary of its publication.

If you've read it, this will likely be a good refresher on Galerntor's arguments.

If you haven't read it yet, by all means enjoy.

We'll also post a link to the article in the show notes for this

episode at IDith Future.com. Giving up Darwin, a fond farewell to a brilliant and beautiful

theory by David Galerenter. Darwinian evolution is a brilliant and beautiful scientific theory.

Once, it was a daring guess. Today, it is basic to the credo that defines the modern worldview.

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