Luskin and Miller Share Highlights of Recent African Speaking Tour

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Is there interest and support for intelligent design in other countries besides the United States? As today's interview will show, the answer to that question is a resounding yes! On this ID The Future, geologist and attorney Casey Luskin and physicist Brian Miller talk with host Andrew McDiarmid about their recent speaking trip to South Africa and Kenya. Accompanied by historian Richard Weikart for portions of it, the trio gave a total of 65 lectures to over 4,000 people on 7 university campuses and other locations. The response was inspiring. As Luskin puts it in his blog post detailing the trip, support for intelligent design is burning brightly across the continent of Africa. Tune in to learn more about this remarkable experience.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	welcome to I. The. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. In late August and early September of
0:18.1	2023, three scientists and scholars from Discovery Institute, physicist Brian Miller, historian Richard
0:24.9	Weicart, and geologist and attorney Casey Luskin, went on a speaking tour in South Africa and
0:30.9	Kenya.
0:31.9	Here with me today to share their experiences of that
0:34.2	trip are Casey Luskin and Brian Miller. Jents, welcome back to the show.
0:38.7	Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, thanks for organizing this Andrew.
0:42.4	Absolutely. Well, Casey, you
0:45.0	recently published a post at evolutionnews.org that shared highlights and a few
0:49.9	awesome photos from this trip. First, can you start by telling us what inspired such a
0:54.6	trip? Yeah and let me also say that I think it's really important to let people know
0:58.9	about international interest for intelligent design.
1:02.8	Just last week I got an email from a young person who had a lot of questions about ID, kind of
1:08.0	working through the issues struggling with it, and they really wanted to know, well, is intelligent design support just here in America?
1:14.1	And I said, actually, not at all.
1:15.8	In fact, we just got back from this fantastic trip to South Africa and Kenya, where Brian Miller
1:20.9	and Richard Weichart and I gave a ton of lectures. We'll get into that and we saw a huge amount of support for ID internationally.
1:27.5	So what inspired this trip was actually when I lived in South Africa, there were obviously quite a few folks who I met there who were friendly to intelligent design.
1:36.0	I guess for folks who aren't aware, I lived in South Africa from 2016 to 2020 while I was doing a PhD there at the University of Johannesburg and during that time got to know a lot of folks and so
1:46.9	after I came back to the US I was having some of my old friends and colleagues saying hey Casey
1:51.7	someday we'd love for you to come back to South Africa and give some lectures give some talks and you know be able to spread the message of
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