I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Is modern science a search for truth or a search for power? How can we restore public trust in the scientific enterprise?

Welcome to ID the future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Today we're pleased to share a recent conversation

between bioethicist Wesley J Smith and philosopher of science Dr Stephen Meyer about the crisis of trust in science today.

This interview originally aired on Humanize, a production of the Discovery Institute's

centre on human exceptionalism.

In an exchange that lasts just over an hour, Smith and Meyer touch on a variety of topics

relevant to the public's view and confidence in the scientific enterprise. Meyer explains why he helped found the Discovery Institute's

Center for Science and Culture in the 1990s and how scientific materialism came to dominate modern signs after Darwin.

Meyer shows that the argument for intelligent design comes from open inquiry

and a careful evaluation of all the possibilities.

He explains why openness and competition are essential to scientific progress.

Then the conversation turns to how recent developments have eroded public trust in science.

Meyer explains the potential pitfalls of both consensus science and peer review,

as well as the need for quality control in science that is fair and balanced.

We have two different concepts of science in play today, says Meyer.

Science as consensus, science is settled, Science is Settled, Science is a Consensus view of a particularly privileged group of elites,

versus Science has open inquiry, as a dynamic enterprise that is openly evaluating the best evidence that we have.

That version of science is what we need to be supporting.

Here now is Humanized Host Wesley J. Smith and Dr. Stephen Seymire.

Welcome to Humanized from Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism,

where human rights meet human responsibilities.

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