Dr. Daniel Shechtman: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Dared to Question the Consensus

Episode 544 February 24, 2012 00:09:59
Dr. Daniel Shechtman: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Dared to Question the Consensus
Intelligent Design the Future
Dr. Daniel Shechtman: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Dared to Question the Consensus

Feb 24 2012 | 00:09:59

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, host David Boze examines the plight of Dr. Daniel Shechtman, recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, who had previously suffered much rejection and ridicule for threatening the consensus of the scientific establishment. Listen in and consider the parallels between Shechtman's once-heretical science and the modern-day rejection and scorn of the ID movement.

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