A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this ID The Future, we bring you excerpts from a recent gathering to celebrate the life of biologist Dr. Jonathan Wells, who passed away in September 2024 at the age of 82. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. In 2000, Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution, a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence — icons of evolution like Ernst Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree trunks. Dr. Wells's achievements in the field of biology are notable. In this episode you’ll get a glimpse into Dr. Wells’s life and character as well as his relentless search for scientific truth. This episode includes eulogies from Dr. John West, Dr. Paul Nelson, Dr. Richard Sternberg, and Dr. Casey Luskin. Learn more about Jonathan Wells at www.jonathanwells.org. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.8	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Andrew McDermott.
0:15.4	Today we're bringing you excerpts from a recent gathering to celebrate the life of Dr. Jonathan Wells,
0:22.6	who passed away in September 2024 celebrate the life of Dr. Jonathan Wells, who passed away in September 2024 at the age of 82. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows of the Discovery Institute's
0:29.6	Center for Science and Culture. As a biologist, he worked as a post-doctoral research biologist
0:35.6	at the University of California at Berkeley, and as
0:39.4	the supervisor of a medical laboratory in Fairfield, California. He also taught biology at California
0:46.2	State University in Hayward. In 2000, Wells took the science world by storm, with icons of evolution,
0:53.9	a book showing how biology textbooks
0:56.6	routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence, icons of evolution like Ernst Heckel's
1:03.3	faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree trunks. Wells' achievements in the field of biology
1:10.8	are notable. Today you'll get a glimpse into Dr. Wells' achievements in the field of biology are notable. Today you'll get a glimpse
1:13.4	into Dr. Wells' life and character, as well as his relentless search for scientific truth.
1:20.7	In a few moments, you'll hear comments first from Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Discovery
1:26.9	Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:30.0	Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant and understandable. No easy task.
1:37.1	Following that, you'll hear from philosopher of biology Dr. Paul Nelson, who reminds us of the importance of wisdom and how Dr. Wells espoused it.
1:46.2	Second only to God himself is wisdom, notes Nelson. She is the queen of the physical world,
1:52.3	and therefore the queen of science itself. After that, Dr. Richard Sternberg takes the stage
1:58.5	to share details of how his friendship with Wells
2:01.2	impacted him personally and professionally.
2:04.8	And then Dr. Casey Luskin wraps up these eulogies by giving the perspective of a humble student,
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