Casey Luskin Debunks One Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, geologist Casey Luskin continues to unpack his recently published essay against the view that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors via blind Darwinian processes. In this episode he shares his experience of walking into the fossil hall at South Africa’s famous Maropeng Museum and immediately being confronted by a piece of shameless materialist propaganda, a Richard Dawkins quotation prominently displayed as part of a floor-to-ceiling display. The quotation insisted that humans are essentially just DNA survival machines. Luskin says, not so fast, and points out the various ways such a view fails to explain important aspects of human behavior, including altruistic behavior toward non-kin. Luskin and host Eric Anderson also call evolutionary theory to task for being Read More ›

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. D. the Future.
0:13.7	I'm Eric Anderson and joining us again today is Dr. Casey Luskin to continue our discussion
0:18.5	about a brand new book he contributed to, Science and Faith in Dialogue, part of the Reformed Theology Africa series.
0:25.0	Dr Luskin is Associate Director at the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute.
0:30.0	He holds a law degree from the University of San Diego,
0:33.0	bachelors and Masters degrees in Earth Sciences,
0:35.0	and a PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg.
0:38.0	Thanks for joining us again, Casey.
0:40.0	Well, it's great to be back with you, Eric.
0:42.0	So this chapter has been really awesome to read.
0:44.4	The last two times we spoke, we talked about the details of the fossil record, and we talked
0:49.4	about the claim that humans and chimps share 99% of their DNA which proves that we have a common ancestor and we talked
0:56.4	about some of the issues around that claim.
0:59.4	And today what I wanted to talk about a little bit is something that makes us particularly unique as humans.
1:05.6	And you have a section titled Evolutionary Psychology and Human Morality. I was blown away by this initial part where you said in the Maripang Museum as you
1:16.6	walk in to the main fossil hall at the museum there's a quote from Richard
1:21.6	Dawkins which says,
1:23.0	we are survival machines.
1:25.0	Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
1:32.0	And there's a display stretching from the floor to the ceiling
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