On the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future out of the vault, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about his book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University in Scotland where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.
0:16.8	Welcome, I'm your host Mike Keys.
0:22.0	Today I'm going to be having a conversation with another Mike, Mike Flannery, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
0:26.0	He's written quite a bit about the co-discoverer of natural selection,
0:31.0	along with Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace. And besides a series of
0:37.2	great books about Wallace and his relationship to Darwin, Mike has come out with a
0:41.8	new edited volume that makes available with editorial oversight and
0:47.2	insight a book that Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that is still of great relevance and as I read through Mike's
0:55.5	introduction to the book I could see how his book is very relevant to the current
1:01.4	debate about evolution and intelligent design.
1:03.7	So welcome Michael Flannery.
1:06.4	Hi Mike.
1:07.8	All right.
1:08.5	So your book is entitled,
1:10.3	Intelligent Evolution, how Alfred Russell Wallace's world of life challenged
1:16.4	Darwinism. And of course world of life is the title of Wallace's original book
1:21.4	and it's integrated into your title.
1:23.2	And we have a forward by William Dembski as well.
1:26.0	So we've got lots to look forward to here.
1:28.6	So our listeners I know will be especially interested in how you relate the world of Wallace to the world of
1:34.7	Darwin. In fact in the introduction to your book you talk about how Charles Darwin's experience
1:42.0	in med school at Edinburgh is actually important to
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