The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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December 27, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist whose scientific breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and whose work on microbes sounded the death knell of the idea of spontaneous generation. On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger walks listeners through the triumphs, flaws, and tragedies in the life of this extraordinary individual. In the nineteenth century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable, since it was thought that spontaneous generation of worms, mold, and other life forms occurred all the time in rotting meat and dirty rags. Pasteur constructed an experiment demonstrating that these “spontaneously” arising worms and such Read More ›

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1:00.9	A podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
1:06.5	Next time you pour yourself some cereal or scoop a bowl of ice cream,
1:10.1	take a close look at the label on the milk carton or the tub of ice cream.
1:13.6	You'll likely notice the word pasteurized. Two centuries ago this year on December 27th,
1:19.2	a poor Tanner family in Dole France gave birth to a son. Mr and Mrs. Pasture decided to name their son Louis.
1:26.1	Hello, I'm Eric Anderson and I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Ann Gager to our show today
1:30.9	as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great French
1:33.5	scientist Louis Pasteur. Gager is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's
1:37.6	Center for Science and Culture and has published papers on the waiting time
1:41.2	problem and testing the limits of protein evolution.
1:44.0	She holds a degree in biology from MIT, a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington,
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