I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I. D. the Future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Let me start off today's show with a pro-tip. We regularly call this podcast ID the Future, but when we launched it on the major podcast platforms, like Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

and Amazon Music, we actually gave it the name, Intelligent Design the Future, to help people

who search the term intelligent design to find it.

So that's an easy way to tell a friend about the podcast.

Tell them just to search the term intelligent design

into any podcast platform of their choice and it'll be one of the first things to pop up.

Now on with today's episode.

A few months back I interviewed a historian and author Dr Richard Whitehart to discuss his latest book Unnatural Death, Medicine's

Descent from Healing to Killing.

At that time we also ran an episode featuring Dr. Weichart reading an excerpt from his book.

Now in case you missed all that good stuff, go back and find it.

But here for now is another discussion about Dr. Whitecart's newest offering hosted by veteran radio and podcast host Jerry Newcomb.

You know, the urge to help people kill themselves has intensified in recent decades, even

to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death.

How did we reach this place?

Well, in his book, Dr. Weikar traces the complex and fascinating history of ideas,

attitudes, and legal wranglings stretching from Socrates to Peter Singer and beyond.

He demonstrates that the Judeo-Christian tradition has encouraged a culture of life, but the secular

Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a very different direction.

Enjoy this chat with Dr. Weicart, exploring some of the major arguments of his book.

This is Jerry Newcomb with Dr. Richard Weicart.

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