No, Scientists Should Not Rule

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Would our world be a better place if scientists were in charge? On this ID the Future from the archive, author and philosopher Jay Richards hosts bioethicist Wesley J. Smith to discuss a tweet from Physics-Astronomy.org. The tweet read, “Imagine a world ruled by scientists, not politicians.” The pair discuss the consequences of such a form of governance, using the response to the coronavirus pandemic as a case in point.

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome, it's great to be with you. This is Jay Richards of the Discovery Institute and I'm happy to join you again and ID the future.
0:20.0	And I'm joined today by a longtime friend and colleague at the Discovery Institute, Wesley J Smith.
0:25.5	Wesley and I in some ways we sort of make up the East Coast contingent of Discovery Institute.
0:32.4	We're both in Washington, D.C.
0:34.8	And most of you listening will know exactly
0:37.0	who Wesley J. Smith is.
0:38.4	He is the chair and senior fellow
0:40.6	of the Center on Human Exceptionalism at Discovery Institute.
0:44.0	He's a very frequent contributor to National Review online.
0:49.0	And he has recently been publishing more regularly in Epoch Times and today I want to talk to
0:55.8	him about a great piece he had a few weeks ago in Epoch Times. It was responding
1:00.6	actually to a tweet from the website physics astronomy.org and the
1:06.6	twiz is what the tweet said it said imagine a world ruled by scientists not
1:12.2	by politicians.
1:14.0	Well, Wesley wrote a piece in the Epoch Times and he said,
1:16.7	no, science should not rule the world.
1:19.6	And I loved it so much.
1:21.2	I thought I just absolutely have to interview him for this podcast.
1:25.0	Wesley, thanks for joining me.
1:27.0	Jay, thank you very much.
1:28.0	Good to talk to you again.
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