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Intelligent Design the Future

Jonathan Wells Discusses His Classic Book Icons of Evolution

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4993 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Dr. Jonathan Wells, a true giant of the intelligent design research community. As we mourn his passing, we are also celebrating anew his considerable contributions to the argument for intelligent design and the debate over evolution. On this episode of ID the Future out of the vault, Dr. Wells begins a conversation on The Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward to talk about his popular book Icons of Evolution. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Source

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0:00.0

Today on ID the Future, we're happy to bring you another interview withSC scientists and

0:12.7

host of the universe next door syndicated radio broadcast.

0:16.6

In conjunction with Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture,

0:20.1

Dr Wordward regularly interviews CSC scientists and scholars on various aspects of the debate over Darwinian evolution and intelligent design.

0:30.0

Welcome to the universe next door, a program that tackles really tough questions about worldview.

0:36.0

Is there a real God out there who rules the universe who created us for a purpose, who undergirds our existence with something of a bigger picture.

0:46.4

The universe idea that we're dealing with has both a physical aspect and that worldview that I just mentioned.

0:53.5

The universe next door is a name of very important book written by Jim Sire, but we've chosen

0:58.4

that name to symbolize our search for the truth.

1:01.9

Well, how do you detect design? How do you detect the possibility

1:05.6

of intelligent causation and how do you figure out whether the Darwinian answer really

1:10.7

holds water any longer or not? Well, we have with us today on the phone from his office out in

1:16.3

Washington State one of the leading scientists who has devoted years of his life

1:22.0

Really decades of his life to searching for the answers to those big questions,

1:27.0

of scientific fingerprints of design in nature and a fair and honest evaluation of the Darwinian answer.

1:36.0

His name is well known, of course, in the world of science.

1:39.1

It's Jonathan Wells.

1:40.3

He holds two earned PhDs, one from Yale University, and one from the University of California at Berkeley.

1:46.4

Those are two pretty heavyweight institutions.

1:49.0

One in cell and developmental biology from Berkeley, and of course he also studied the

1:54.0

history the background of the Darwinian story the kind of the both

1:58.5

theological and scientific story there at Yale University. Welcome back to the universe next door program, Dr. Jonathan Wills.

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