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Today\u2019s ID the Future<\/strong> kicks off a three-part series featuring Taking Leave of Darwin<\/a><\/em> author Neil Thomas interviewed by radio host Hank Hanegraaff. In this first part, Hanegraaff begins by lauding Thomas\u2019s book and underscoring how influential Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution has been on Western culture. Then Thomas sketches the cultural milieu and individual motivations that he\u2019s convinced drew Darwin toward his formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Here the focus is not on the various evidential weaknesses of Darwin\u2019s theory (which Thomas does cover in his book) but on a question that puzzled Thomas once he became convinced of just how evidentially weak the case for Darwinism was: How was it that a theory so poorly supported by the evidence (such that even some of its most ardent supporters found themselves rejecting key aspects of it) nevertheless came to dominate the academy? Tune in to find out what Thomas ultimately concluded from his autopsy of the theory and its early reception, and stay tuned for episodes two and three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neil Thomas and Hank Hanegraaff: An Autopsy for Darwinism<\/a><\/blockquote>