A Better Explanation for Human Origins

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What is wrong with the standard evolutionary story of human origins? On today’s ID the Future from the archive, host Eric Anderson begins a two-part conversation with geologist Dr. Casey Luskin to discuss why evolutionary models of paleo-anthropology, genetics, and evolutionary psychology fail to account for human origins. Dr. Luskin contributed a chapter on the topic in the 2023 book Science and Faith in Dialogue, which also features chapters from Stephen Meyer, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Marcos Eberlin, and others. In Part 1, Luskin describes his experiences in South Africa while earning a PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg. During his time there, Luskin had many opportunities to study various hominid fossils. Here he explains why he is Read More › Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.9	Welcome to ID the Future.
0:13.9	I'm Eric Anderson, and joining us on the show today is Dr. Casey Luskin to discuss a brand new book he contributed to,
0:20.2	Science and Faith in Dialogue,
0:22.2	part of the Reformed Theology in Africa series. Dr. Luskin is Associate Director at Discovery Institute's
0:27.8	Center for Science and Culture. He holds a law degree from the University of San Diego and has
0:32.8	bachelor's and master's degrees in earth sciences, as well as a PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg.
0:39.1	He has spoken and written extensively on evolution and intelligent design and has contributed to
0:44.1	or edited more books than I think I can list, so I won't do that. But I could say Casey is uniquely
0:49.2	qualified to help us understand our topic today. Welcome, Casey. Thanks so much, Eric. It's a lot of fun to be here.
0:56.0	So tell us about this new anthology. How did it come about? Who are the contributing authors?
1:01.4	Yeah, so the book is titled Science and Faith and Dialogue, and I think it's a great book. It's actually
1:07.6	free online. Hopefully you can post a link to it with the podcast, available
1:11.9	as a free PDF download. And it came about because of some relationships that were built by both
1:17.5	myself and Brian Miller with folks in South Africa. As many ID of the future listeners probably
1:22.4	may recall, I lived in South Africa from 2016 until partway through 2020 and obviously got to meet a number
1:29.9	of people while I was there. And Discovery Institute has actually been building relationships with
1:34.7	folks in South Africa for even before I went there for my PhD. And Brian Miller came out and spoke there.
1:40.2	I think it was in 2018. And we met a professor at Northwest University of Pottestrum,
1:45.8	which is a public university.
1:47.7	He, I believe, is a physics and engineering professor there named Frederick Van Neekirk,
1:52.7	or he goes by Fricky for short.
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