ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Eric Anderson, and today I'm pleased to be joined again by Dr. Eric Hedin to continue our discussion of his new book,

Canceled Science, What Some Atheists Don't Want You to See.

Dr. Hedin earned his PhD in experimental plasma physics and has taught physics and astronomy

at Taylor University and Ball State University in Indiana and at Biola University in Southern

California. His research has focused on computational

nanoelectronics and higher dimensional physics. Eric, I'm glad we're able to have you back again.

Thank you so much. It's always great to be with you here. So we had a couple of conversations

previously, maybe a month or so ago, right when the book came out, and we were able to talk

through some of the

important issues raised in the first half of your book. And I'm really thrilled, Eric, that you've

agreed to share a little more with us today and take some time to talk through a couple of

fascinating topics in the later chapters of the book. Just because it's been a little while since our

last conversation, maybe you could take just one minute to set the stage for any

listeners who might be joining us for the first time. Why the title canceled science and what was the

impetus for writing this book? Well, I can give a brief description. When I was teaching at Ball State

University, I developed a course called The Boundaries of Science taught in the Honors College at Ball State

that was basically a cosmology astronomy course, and yet it gave room for looking at the

implications of scientific evidence. For example, science tells us the universe had a beginning.

They call it the Big Bang. So we talked

about the implications of that beginning. And it came about that outside atheists and atheist

organizations who had nothing to do with the university. And by the way, none of these people who

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