Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxis.

Folks, this is the Eric Metaxis show.

You know how much I love the subject of science and I've become enamored of the Discovery Institute because they seem to publish books that I find fascinating.

Recently I got one in the mail from the Discovery Institute. The title is taking leave of Darwin.

The author is Neil Thomas.

And I was particularly enjoying the book

when I got the idea that what if I could have Neil Thomas

on this program and we could at all enjoy a conversation with him.

I have him now from Mary Old England, actually from Reading, England near London.

Neil Thomas, welcome to this program.

Thanks for having me.

I loved your book.

I love the way you write.

I love the subject, of course. I'm fascinated with natural selection, the idea of it, and what science is revealing more and more, and what

we're hearing about very little, but more and more through folks like you in the Discovery Institute.

So if you don't mind, tell my audience, before you came to the subject.

What is it that you do?

You're really an eclectic thinker.

You've written on Wagner's operas.

What do you do when you're not thinking about the subject of Darwin?

Well, I am a retired academic, and my subject was German language, literature, and European

literature in a wider context.

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