Charles Thaxton on The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now

Episode 1305 March 23, 2020 00:19:37
Charles Thaxton on The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now
Intelligent Design the Future
Charles Thaxton on The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now

Mar 23 2020 | 00:19:37

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Robert J. Marks interviews chemist Charles Thaxton about a seminal 1984 book he co-authored, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, foundational to the intelligent design movement, and a later project, Of Pandas and People. The main body of Mystery was generally praised, Thaxton explains. It was the epilogue that proved controversial. There the three authors reviewed five proposed explanations for life’s origins and suggested that the best explanation was that the first life originated through an act of creative intelligence. The Mystery of Life’s Origin is now being re-released in an updated and greatly expanded version, with new contributions by Stephen Meyer, James Tour, and others.

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