Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource

Episode 1128 June 11, 2018 00:12:49
Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource
Intelligent Design the Future
Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource

Jun 11 2018 | 00:12:49

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Crowther talks with Rachel Adams, special projects coordinator at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, about Thanos, the arch-villain from the Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, and a couple of real-life thinkers, Eric Pianka and Paul Ehrlich, who share the villain’s view that the world would be a better place with far fewer humans. Thanos, Pianka, and Ehrlich appear to share a materialistic view of the human person, one that ignores the inherent dignity and worth of every person as well as humanity’s capacity to create solutions and new resources, growing the resource pie. Thanks to this, life is not a zero-sum game. The human species is, as Julian Simon put it, the ultimate resource.

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