Tom Woodward on the Impact of Icons of Evolution

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Tom Woodward to the podcast to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. In Part 1, Dr. Woodward tells the story of Jonathan’s efforts to fight the battle over textbook misinformation with his 2000 book Icons of Evolution. When the book first came out, National Center for Science Education director Eugenie Scott said that Icons of Evolution would be a “royal pain in the fanny” for the evolutionist community. She was not wrong! Woodward talks about the reverberations caused by the book's release and the waves of textbook reform it has brought about. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.2	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:15.1	Today, I'm welcoming Dr. Tom Woodward to the podcast to share some of his memories of our
0:20.7	longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, to the podcast to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan
0:22.6	Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows at Discovery
0:29.2	Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and his contributions over the last quarter century
0:34.2	to the intelligent design Movement have been formidable.
0:43.1	Now, in case you're not familiar with Dr. Woodward, he is a professor at Trinity College of Florida,
0:47.6	where he teaches the history of science, communication, and systematic theology.
0:53.4	He is founder and director of the CS Lewis Society, now known as Apologetics, Inc., and he lectures in universities on
0:55.7	scientific, apologetic, and religious topics. He is author of the award-winning book, Douts
1:01.8	About Darwin, A History of Intelligent Design. Tom, it's a pleasure to have you with me today.
1:08.1	It's a great pleasure for me, too, Andrew. Thanks for inviting me.
1:12.4	Yeah, and I really like the way that Bill Dembski described you in the forward to Darwin Strikes
1:18.1	Back, your book that you wrote covering the, or really defending the science of intelligent
1:24.7	design and looking at what happened in those key years, 2005 and
1:30.3	six, and even before, this is what Bill Dembski says about you. He says, like a spy in a John
1:37.2	Le Car novel, who has attended every crucial event in the Cold War, Tom Woodward has been
1:42.7	ubiquitous in the unfolding culture war over
1:45.7	intelligent design. He is the insider's insider. With doubts about Darwin, he established himself
1:52.0	as the historian of the Intelligent Design Movement. And now, with Darwin strikes back, he also
1:57.9	assumes the role of a gifted war correspondent, moving up and down the lines of
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