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

Is intelligent design a viable scientific theory?

Why do some in the scientific community still consider it pseudoscience?

Maybe you're wondering these things yourself,

or you have a friend, family member, or co-worker who has these types of questions.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid. Today, these questions and more

will be answered by Dr. Casey Luskin and his wife, Kristen Murray.

This is the first half of a recent conversation the pair had on the Apologetics Profile podcast with host Daniel Ray.

Kristen teaches an online high school chemistry class for Discovery Institute Academy.

Casey is a scientist and attorney, an associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. In part one, they offer a broad overview of intelligent design

as a viable scientific theory. They also discuss why it isn't considered mainstream science

by its critics. And they review the state of how science is communicated to the

general public today. As the conversation begins, Kristen explains how she became interested in

science and how she gets her students interested and motivated to explore the wonders of chemistry.

Here's Casey and Kristen now.

It's not hard to get teens interested in a subject that you're already fairly enthusiastic about yourself.

Casey will be the first to attest that I'm somewhat obsessive about the subject matter of chemistry.

And it goes back to a young age.

So I think starting, I was just sharing this actually in another podcast I did recently.

Going back to my high school days, Daniel, I absolutely loved chemistry at an early age and devoured it and actually have shared the story

that I actually got in trouble in my chemistry class because comically, I did not pay attention

in class.

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