{"id":40319,"date":"2022-02-11T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/?p=40319"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:01:08","slug":"1563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1563\/","title":{"rendered":"A Darwin Day Exhibit Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this classic\u00a0<strong>ID the Future<\/strong>, hear the story of how leading German paleo-entomologist and Darwinist G\u00fcnter Bechly became convinced of intelligent design. Host Ray Bohlin shares the clip from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/revolutionarybehe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the documentary Revolutionary<\/a>, and sits down with the star of the film, Lehigh University biologist and <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0743290313\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin\u2019s Black Box<\/a><\/em> author Michael Behe, to discuss some possible lessons to glean from Bechly\u2019s dramatic story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time since the documentary was filmed, Bechly was forced to resign from his position as curator at the prestigious State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. Then his English language Wikipedia page disappeared in an apparent attempt to shove this distinguished scientist down a memory hole. Bechly, meanwhile, is standing by his convictions and continuing his research on evolution and intelligent design. You can find many of his popular essays <a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/author\/gbechly\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this classic\u00a0ID the Future, hear the story of how leading German paleo-entomologist and Darwinist G\u00fcnter Bechly became convinced of intelligent design. Host Ray Bohlin shares the clip from the documentary Revolutionary, and sits down with the star of the film, Lehigh University biologist and Darwin\u2019s Black Box author Michael Behe, to discuss some possible lessons to glean from Bechly\u2019s dramatic story. In the time since the documentary was filmed, Bechly was forced to resign from his position as curator at the prestigious State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. Then his English language Wikipedia page disappeared in an apparent attempt to shove this distinguished scientist down a memory hole. 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