Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.

Welcome to I.D. the future. I'm Emily Kurlinsky, your host for this episode and every summer.

The Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture brings together a diverse group of students to learn not only about intelligent design, but also about the cultural impact of Darwin's ideas.

These students come from all around the globe and many are already making contributions

and fields ranging from biology and physics to philosophy and film. They are the next generation

of scientists, journalists, educators, and thought leaders promoting the evidence for design and purpose.

There's so much more I could share about the Summer Seminar program, and you can find more information at discovery

or slash seminars but in this episode we're going to hear directly from one of the

attendees a PhD student in biochemistry and biophysics who attended the seminar during her graduate studies.

So what name would you like to use?

I would like to use Mary.

And why can't we use your real name?

Well, not everybody is open-minded. Some people might look down

on me if they knew that I had different views about the origin of life and

neodarwinism. What were you taught about the origin of life and neodarwinism?

In school, I was taught pretty typically random mutation,

natural selection, and those things give rise to the complexity that we see in nature.

How did you suspect that this was not the whole story?

I think there was, I don't know, just an intuition about it but I also remember like

learning from the privileged planet as well like I remember my first encounter with

the privileged planet I was like, wow, this is

fascinating and this like totally makes sense with kind of like my intuition.

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