{"id":36651,"date":"2008-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.net\/podcast\/intelligent-design-goes-to-vegas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:57:26","slug":"250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/250\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design Goes to Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This episode of <b>ID the Future<\/b> features remarks by Stephen Meyer at Freedomfest conference in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do intelligent design, evolution, information and purple people eaters all have in common? Well, they all took front stage at Freedomfest in Las Vegas last week when ID proponents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/p\/meyer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/p\/meyer\">Stephen Meyer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/p\/gilder\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/p\/gilder\">George Gilder<\/a> squared off against Darwinists Michael Shermer and Ronald Bailey in debating whether there is scientific evidence for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120419021137\/http:\/\/www.intelligentdesign.org\/whatisid.php\">intelligent design<\/a> in nature. Listen in as Stephen Meyer shares his opening remarks for the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This episode of ID the Future features remarks by Stephen Meyer at Freedomfest conference in Las Vegas. What do intelligent design, evolution, information and purple people eaters all have in common? 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