Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future out of the archive, biologist Ann Gauger walks listeners through the triumphs, flaws, and tragedies of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist whose scientific breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and whose work on microbes sounded the death knell of the idea of spontaneous generation. Dr. Gauger also discusses his pioneering and life-saving work on vaccines, the Christian faith that saw him through the death of his three of his children, and more. Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.8	Next time you pour yourself some cereal or scoop a bowl of ice cream,
0:16.6	take a close look at the label on the milk carton or the tub of ice cream.
0:20.2	You'll likely notice the word pasteurized.
0:22.9	Two centuries ago this year, on December 27th, a poor Tanner family in Dole, France, gave birth to a son.
0:29.4	Mr. and Mrs. Pasteur decided to name their son, Louis.
0:32.6	Hello, I'm Eric Anderson, and I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Anne Gager to our show today
0:37.2	as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great French scientist Louis Pasteur.
0:41.7	Gager is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and has published papers on the waiting time problem and testing the limits of protein evolution.
0:50.8	She holds a degree in biology from MIT, a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington,
0:56.5	and carried out postdoc work at Harvard in molecular biology, where she cloned the gene for Kinesin light chain.
1:02.2	Welcome, Anne.
1:03.0	Hello, Eric. It's good to be here.
1:05.7	So, Anne, let's say I know nothing about this prominent scientist, and I ask you, who was Louis Pasteur? What would you say?
1:12.2	Well, that would depend on what you know, what your field is, because he did so many things.
1:19.2	He's just a remarkable scientist. He contributed to bacteriology. He contributed to medicine,
1:26.5	immunology, chemistry, just a ton of different new ideas.
1:33.5	The things that he showed in those various fields.
1:36.2	Yeah.
1:37.0	He started out, actually, he wasn't a very good student.
1:40.1	He was interested in art at first.
1:42.1	I liked to sketch portraits, and his family really thought they were very good.
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