The Imploding of an Atheist Professor’s Worldview

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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For 25 years, Dr. John D. Wise considered Darwinian evolution the most plausible explanation for life's origin and development. But as he studied the latest evidence in molecular biology, genetics, astronomy, and other fields, he began to realize that modern science was confirming many of the predictions and arguments of intelligent design. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid talks with professor and author Dr. John D. Wise about his surprising journey from atheism to Christianity. Source

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.1	Welcome to I.D. the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I'm joined by Dr. John D. Wise to discuss his journey from atheism to Christianity and in particular the part that Michael Bihy and other
0:24.9	intelligent design scholars had on that transformation.
0:28.1	Dr. Wise received his BS from Lancaster Bible College in 1990 and his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of California Irvine.
0:40.0	He has taught philosophy at the University of California Irvine, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania,
0:46.0	Grand Canyon University, and American Intercontinental University.
0:50.5	He currently teaches for the University of Arizona Global Campus.
0:54.0	He's the author of two books, Through the Looking Glass, The Imploding of an atheist professor's
0:59.7	worldview, and Paradise Lost, The Machinery of Evil.
1:04.3	Dr. Wise and his wife Jennifer produced two podcasts,
1:07.7	The Christian Atheist and Simple Gifts.
1:11.0	Dr. Wise, welcome to ID the Future. Oh, thank you, Andrew. Dr. Wise, welcome to ID the future.
1:13.0	Oh, thank you, Andrew.
1:15.0	It's great to be here.
1:16.0	I appreciate your having me on.
1:18.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:20.0	Well, I first learned about you by discovering your podcast the Christian atheist.
1:24.0	Can you tell us how that got started and what you're working to accomplish in that?
1:28.0	Sure. I became an atheist after a Christian upbringing in 1996 when I was a graduate school at the University of California Irvine and taught philosophy after getting my PhD for the next several years.
1:44.0	And then I had in 2019 what I tend to call
1:47.0	borrowing from Albert Einstein my Alice Mirabulus
1:52.0	because in 2019 my world turned upside down.
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