Testing the Truth: Nancy Pearcey on Worldview and Reality
Intelligent Design the Future
Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A worldview is not supposed to try to say, well, it's not really real. |
| 0:05.0 | A worldview is supposed to explain those things that are so central to human experience that we all |
| 0:10.0 | live them, whether our philosophy accounts for it or not, this is how we live. |
| 0:15.0 | And the way to test a worldview is taken into real life, just like you test a scientific |
| 0:20.0 | theory by doing an experiment in the lab and seeing |
| 0:23.8 | if it turns out the way the theory says it should, you take a worldview into the world |
| 0:28.3 | and say, does it explain how humans experience the world? |
| 0:33.2 | ID, the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid. |
| 0:43.6 | Today, we're sharing a special conversation with author, speaker, and professor, Nancy |
| 0:48.5 | Piercy that originally aired on the ex-skeptic podcast. Before Piercy became one of the leading Christian voices engaging |
| 0:56.0 | questions about worldview, intelligent design, evolution, and scientific materialism, |
| 1:02.0 | she walked away from Christianity altogether. In this candid interview, Piercy reflects on her |
| 1:07.5 | journey through atheism, relativism, and Eastern spirituality before ultimately |
| 1:12.6 | rediscovering Christianity as a worldview that was capable of explaining both reality |
| 1:17.7 | and human dignity. Over the years, Percy has contributed significantly to discussions |
| 1:23.3 | surrounding Darwinism, Scientism, Morality, family, and culture |
| 1:28.1 | through influential books |
| 1:29.7 | like Total Truth, |
| 1:31.2 | Love Thy Body, |
| 1:32.3 | and the toxic war on masculinity. |
| 1:35.1 | We'll link to those |
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