John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future takes us to a conference in Turin, Italy, where scholar John West speaks about the roots of intelligent design, roots that stretch back to ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. In his talk, West also makes the case that design thinking was crucial to the rise of modern science, and he traces how Darwinism has eroded design thinking, fueled scientific racism, and undermined belief in human exceptionalism. West celebrates some of Italy’s contributions to Western civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas undergirded by Darwinian thinking, disturbing work that West learned more about when he visited the Cesare Lombroso Museum in Turin. On the bright side, there has been Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Hello I'm Tom Gilson. Today on ID the future we have opportunity to sit in on a key
0:17.9	moment in the growth of intelligent design. It's a launch event for the
0:22.0	Intelligent Design Center of, which took place in June
0:25.4	2022 in Turin, Italy.
0:28.2	It's an historic moment in many ways, another sign of increasing interest in design theory around the globe.
0:35.0	We'll be listening in here as John West, Managing Director of Discovery Institute's Center
0:40.7	for Science and Culture, puts it in context of the long sweep of history, the design
0:46.1	controversy, past and present, including key moments it took place right where they were
0:51.2	meeting in Turin. I think you'll find it encouraging.
0:55.0	I am honored to be able to join you today for this inaugural event of the Italian Center for Intelligent Design. This is the first occasion my wife
1:06.9	Sonia and myself have been able to be in Italy yet as members of the wider Western civilization, I think anyone who lives in the West cannot but feel connected to Italy.
1:21.0	It is a joy to be in the country of Dante,
1:24.1	da Vinci, Michelangelo, Clementi, Cicero, and so many others who helped form
1:30.8	our civilization. And so it's actually humbling to be here.
1:35.0	I'm going to be speaking about the importance of intelligent design
1:40.0	to both science and society, but first I'd like to share to something briefly about who we are at Discovery Institute
1:47.7	and about the growing network of scientists and other scholars who see evidence of purpose in nature.
1:55.0	Discovery Institute is a non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on research and education.
2:03.2	It's based in the city of Seattle in the United States,
2:07.2	as Mark already described.
2:09.5	It was founded in 1991, and its Center for Science and Culture was founded in 1996 by
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