Paul Nelson on Freeing Minds Trapped in a Framework of Naturalism

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How often do we get to have a respectful conversation with someone who disagrees with us? On this ID the Future out of the archive, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson continues sharing with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a science culture committed to naturalism. "In the bouncing of opinions off each other and the exchange of views," says Nelson, "truth should emerge." But how do you communicate with scientists and thinkers trapped in a framework of naturalism? Dr. Nelson explains. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution. Hi, I'm Andrew McDermott.
0:16.0	How does an intelligent design theorist work effectively in a naturalistic culture?
0:21.0	Today I'm speaking again with Paul Nelson, a senior fellow of the Discovery
0:25.4	Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an adjunct faculty in the Master of Arts Program
0:30.8	in Science and Religion at Biola University.
0:34.0	Nelson is a philosopher of biology who has been involved in the intelligent design debate
0:38.4	internationally for three decades.
0:40.8	Paul, welcome back to ID the future.
0:42.8	Thanks for having me.
0:44.8	In a previous episode you shared remembrances and lessons you learned
0:48.8	from philosopher of science Adolf Grumbaugh,
0:51.6	who passed away in 2018 at the age of 95.
0:55.0	Why was our discussion of Grumbam in Part 1 a good place to start a series on working as
1:02.0	an ID theorist in a naturalistic culture?
1:04.0	That's an excellent question. You know I trained academically as a philosopher of
1:10.3	science and part of my training was classical philosophy,
1:15.0	reading for instance platonic dialogues.
1:19.0	And the model of philosophy that I find most appealing,
1:25.0	and I think is borne out by history, is dialogue,
1:28.4	dialectic, conversation where you have opposing viewpoints and in the bouncing of opinions off each other and the exchange of views,
1:42.0	truth emerges or it should emerge. You know it's very hard to have a
1:46.4	dialectical exchange with somebody who agrees with everything you say, right? So you say Proposition a and they say yeah proposition a I agree
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