Phillip Johnson: Remembering Will Provine (1942-2015)

Episode 883 October 02, 2015 00:24:42
Phillip Johnson: Remembering Will Provine (1942-2015)
Intelligent Design the Future
Phillip Johnson: Remembering Will Provine (1942-2015)

Oct 02 2015 | 00:24:42

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Phillip Johnson, the godfather of the modern intelligent design movement and author of Darwin on Trial, shares memories of the late Will Provine. An historian of science and evolutionary biologist at Cornell University, Provine was a longtime interlocutor and friend of Johnson. Listen in as Johnson shares about guest lecturing in Provine's evolutionary biology classes, remembers Provine's unusual candidness about the atheistic implications of Darwinism, and recounts their 1994 public debate.

Read Phillip Johnson’s reflections on Will Provine's life on Evolution News and Views.

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