Paul Nelson on Listening to Nature for Her Answers

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this ID the Future from the vault, philosopher of science Paul Nelson concludes his talk with host Andrew McDiarmid on what it takes to converse effectively with scientists who are trapped in a naturalistic framework — that is, researchers who draw their conclusions from naturalism’s authority rather than following the evidence wherever it leads. Nelson urges us to keep the third party in the conversation: nature herself. Dr. Nelson explains how. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.
0:16.0	Greetings, I'm Andrew McDermott. Can an intelligent design theorist work effectively in a naturalistic culture?
0:21.0	Today I'm with Paul Nelson, a senior fellow of the
0:24.2	Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and Adject faculty in the
0:28.8	Master of Arts program in Science and Religion at Biol University.
0:32.4	Nelson is a philosopher of biology. in Science and Religion at Biologna University.
0:33.0	Nelson is a philosopher of biology who has been involved in the intelligent design debate internationally for three decades.
0:40.0	Paul, welcome.
0:42.0	Thanks again for having me.
0:43.0	No problem.
0:44.0	Well, just a recap for our listeners who may not have heard parts one and two of this series
0:48.6	yet.
0:49.6	You first shared some remembrances and lessons learned from one of your academic mentors, philosopher of science
0:55.4	Adolf Grunbaum. From there in part two you talked about what it means to be trapped in a naturalistic
1:01.5	parabola, that axis of Darwinist reasoning that seems to extend
1:06.1	infinitely.
1:07.1	What would you like to say about those two episodes?
1:09.7	Just a quick summary.
1:11.9	Well, over the past decade, I've thought more and more about how an intelligent design
1:17.8	thinker can best use his or her time.
1:22.1	And it occurred to me that we shouldn't attempt the impossible. If the person we're talking to has a fundamental
1:30.0	commitment to naturalism, which I take to mean the view that what's really real out there in
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