The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing

Episode 1250 September 09, 2019 00:14:06
The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing
Intelligent Design the Future
The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing

Sep 09 2019 | 00:14:06

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads an excerpt from Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design by Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt. It makes the case that modern neo-Darwinism is today’s “phlogiston,” a theory that explains everything but nothing, faces mounting contrary evidence, and survives only with ever more ancillary hypotheses.

In the excerpt Leisola and Witt also discuss the well-documented pattern of scientists defending an existing scientific paradigm even after fresh discoveries have turned against it, with the obsolete dominant paradigm dying only very slowly. An especially dramatic and tragic example gave the name to this all-too-human tendency — the Semmelweis reflex. Listen in to learn more.

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