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^{Michael Newton Keas
August 9, 2024

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The Gollum Effect: When Guarding Research Impedes Progress

_{Michael Newton Keas
August 9, 2024

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On this ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with historian and philosopher of science Michael Keas to discuss a recent article at Times Higher Education, “My Precious! How Academia’s Gollums Guard Their Research Fields.” The article looks at how scientific progress is being impeded by a culture in which scientists jealously guard their research instead of sharing it. Keas says the problem seems to have gotten worse in recent years but isn’t a new one. He illustrates with the story of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Read More ›

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^{Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024

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How to Rise Above Addictive Technologies to Find Real Freedom

_{Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024

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^{Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024

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Richard Weikart Reads From His New Book Unnatural Death

_{Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024

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On this episode, Dr. Richard Weikart reads selections from his new book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. Dr. Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Stanislaus and a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. He is author of From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion and The Death of Humanity. Dr. Weikart begins with a portion from the book’s Introduction, which sets the stage and defines some key terms used in the book. Weikart concludes with an excerpt from Chapter 3: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics, where he gets into the influence of Darwinism on eugenics ideology and how it shaped attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024

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Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

_{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024

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If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine's Descent From Healing to Killing, now available from Discovery Institute Press. The book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from Ancient Greece to today. How did we get to the point we are at today, and how do we turn the tide to promote the sanctity of human life? Tune in to find out. Read More ›

^{Kirk Durston
August 2, 2024

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Three Types of Science, pt. 3: Fantasy Science

_{Kirk Durston
August 2, 2024

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On this episode of ID the Future out of our vault, biophysicist Kirk Durston completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy science makes inferential leaps so huge that virtually none of it is testable, either by the standards of experimental science or by those of the historical sciences, which reason to the best explanation by process of elimination. This is Part 3 of a three-part interview. Read More ›

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^{Doug Smith
August 1, 2024

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Doug Smith on The Pitfalls of Virtual Reality (VR)

_{Doug Smith
August 1, 2024

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^{Melissa Cain Travis
July 31, 2024

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Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

_{Melissa Cain Travis
July 31, 2024

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Materialist philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote that "only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation…be safely built.” But is this worldview of scientific materialism in line with what science has revealed to us in the last century? On this episode of ID The Future, we’re pleased to share a recent conversation between Dr. Melissa Cain Travis and author and teacher Dr. Ken Boa on the Explorers Podcast. The topic is beauty, harmony, and truth in the sciences. We are grateful to the producers of the Explorers Podcast for permission to re-broadcast this conversation. Read More ›

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^{Guillermo Gonzalez
July 29, 2024

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Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
July 29, 2024

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On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez back to the program to read and discuss his poem "Totality: A Celestial Theater," written to commemorate the total solar eclipse that occurred in April 2024. You may already be familiar with Gonzalez's popular book The Privileged Planet, co-authored with Dr. Jay Richards, unpacking the arguments for our privileged place in the cosmos. You might also have heard about his new young adult novel The Farm at the Center of the Universe, co-written with Dr. Jonathan Witt. But you likely didn't know this accomplished scientist and author is also a poet! Listen as Gonzalez discusses and then reads his poem aloud. Read More ›