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Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Do humans project mathematical order onto nature? Or was it there all along? On this classic ID The Future from the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his three-part conversation with Dr. Melissa Cain Travis about her book Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility. In Part 3, we look at how Kepler's ideas and work can inform the scientific enterprise today. This is Part 3 of a 3-part discussion.

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.1	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:16.0	Today, I conclude my discussion with Dr. Melissa Kane-Travs about her recent book, Thinking God's Thoughts,
0:22.4	Johannes Kepler, and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility. Dr. Travis serves as affiliate faculty
0:28.0	at Colorado Christian University's Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics,
0:33.9	where she teaches courses in the history and philosophy of science.
0:43.0	She earned a PhD in humanities with a philosophy concentration from Faulkner University's Great Books program.
0:44.5	A fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, she currently serves
0:48.5	as instructor at discoveryu.org, where she offers adult education courses on science and Christianity. Melissa,
0:56.2	welcome back to the podcast. Hey, Andrew, I'm glad to be here. This is our third conversation about
1:01.6	your book, Thinking God's Thoughts. In part one, you introduced us to the concept of cosmic
1:06.6	comprehensibility, and you reviewed with us a lineage of great thinkers, as you put it, that
1:12.5	influenced Kepler's thinking, from the ancient Greek philosophers right through to astronomer
1:17.0	Nicholas Copernicus. In part two, we focused on Kepler himself, his university years, his
1:23.1	major works, his importance as a natural philosopher, and his natural theology. Now this time
1:29.3	we're exploring the last part of your book, the last third, where you put Kepler in conversation
1:34.5	with scientists and philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries. We're also taking a closer look at
1:40.8	Kepler's tripartite harmony and how it can be applied to signs today.
1:45.5	So let's jump right in. Chapter 9 and 10, as you admit, get a little technical, but I thought
1:51.2	you could maybe give us a short summary in simplified terms of the content of those chapters.
1:57.1	Sure. I think that's a good idea. So in our previous episode, I explained what I called the tripartite harmony of Kepler's natural theology.
2:05.3	The archetype, copy, and image that taken together explain cosmic comprehensibility.
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