Humility and Humor: Richard Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues a series of interviews celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Jonathan Wells, our close colleague and friend who passed away in 2024 at the age of 82 years old. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and made significant contributions to science and to the arguments for intelligent design. Today, evolutionary biologist Dr. Richard Sternberg shares personal anecdotes and insights into Dr. Wells's character, his contributions to biology and epigenetics, and the profound impact he had on those around him. 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 your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:15.8	My guest today is Dr. Richard Sternberg to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan
0:21.8	Wells, who passed away in 2024 at 82 years old. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows at Discovery
0:29.1	Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and his contributions over the last quarter
0:33.6	century to the intelligent design movement have been significant.
0:43.3	Dr. Sternberg is an evolutionary biologist with interests in the relation between genes and morphological homologies and the nature of genomic information.
0:49.0	He holds two PhDs, one in biology, molecular evolution, from Florida International University, and another in system
0:56.7	science, theoretical biology, from Binghamton University.
1:01.3	From 2001 to 2007, he served as a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology
1:07.7	Information, and from 2001 to 2007 also was a research associate at the Smithsonian's National Museum
1:15.3	of Natural History.
1:17.5	Dr. Sternberg is presently a senior fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:23.5	Rick, welcome to the podcast.
1:25.5	Thank you.
1:27.2	Well, there's a lot to talk about that I could talk about
1:29.9	with you. I know you're busy working on an intriguing book project at the moment, and we
1:34.9	could also discuss a host of other topics from your previous research. But today I wanted to ask you
1:40.1	to share some of your memories of Dr. Wells. Now first, you've known Jonathan for decades.
1:46.6	Tell us when and how the two of you first meant.
1:49.8	Well, I first heard of Jonathan in 1999.
1:54.3	I contacted Dr. Paul Nelson out of the blue
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