How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How much do you know about intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to defend intelligent design to friends, family, or associates who may be critical of the theory? On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin brings to bear decades of experience as an attorney and ID theorist on the front lines of the evolution debate to give you the basics you’ll need to confidently discuss and defend intelligent design with others. Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. D the future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. How much do you know about
0:17.4	intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to
0:21.9	defend intelligent design to friends, family or associates who may be critical of the idea or just don't know much about it?
0:30.0	Today Dr Casey Luskin provides the basics you'll need to confidently discuss and defend intelligent design with others.
0:38.0	Dr Luskin is an attorney as well as Associate Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery
0:45.2	Institute.
0:46.8	In this recent talk, Luskin shares with us the fruits of decades of experience communicating
0:51.9	about and arguing for intelligent design.
0:56.1	He explains why the commonly heard definition of intelligent design fails to adequately
1:00.8	describe the theory.
1:02.3	He reviews all the ways intelligent design reasoning is
1:05.2	already being used in science. And then he shows us how to refute the common assertion that
1:10.9	intelligent design isn't science by explaining how
1:14.2	intelligent design uses the scientific method to detect design. Take
1:19.2	notes if you can and feel free to listen to this brief lecture more than once.
1:24.0	Now here's Dr. Casey Luskin.
1:27.0	This talk is going to talk about how we can defend
1:31.0	the theory of intelligent design.
1:32.0	What are some common objections that you might encounter
1:35.4	and how to handle objections when they come up that maybe you don't know how to
1:38.8	answer.
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