{"id":40870,"date":"2022-11-04T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:00:41","slug":"1671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1671\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pearcey Explains the Surprising Early History of Darwinism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this ID the Future <\/strong>from the vault<\/strong>,<\/strong> Nancy Pearcey, author of numerous books, including The Soul of Science<\/a><\/em> (co-authored with Charles Thaxton) and\u00a0Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality<\/em><\/a>, challenges the common belief that Darwin\u2019s leading early supporters were convinced of the main pillars of his theory. Many in the nineteenth century were already primed to accept a theory of evolution, but not necessarily by natural selection. As Pearcey explains, some of Darwin\u2019s chief supporters had grave doubts about natural selection\u2019s role, and some of them believed that God or a \u201cvital force\u201d guided evolution. But Darwin would have none of it. And what do evolutionary scientists think today? The disagreements persist and, if anything, have intensified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this ID the Future from the vault, Nancy Pearcey, author of numerous books, including The Soul of Science (co-authored with Charles Thaxton) and\u00a0Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, challenges the common belief that Darwin\u2019s leading early supporters were convinced of the main pillars of his theory. Many in the nineteenth century were already primed to accept a theory of evolution, but not necessarily by natural selection. As Pearcey explains, some of Darwin\u2019s chief supporters had grave doubts about natural selection\u2019s role, and some of them believed that God or a \u201cvital force\u201d guided evolution. But Darwin would have none of it. And what do evolutionary scientists think today? The disagreements persist and, if anything, have Read More ›<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":38799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/f097fc3a-0cae-4ba6-a93c-b392e5880dd2-IDTF-1671-NancyPearcey-History-Darwinism.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"1124051","podmotor_episode_id":"1311977","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:18:12","filesize":"12.5 mb","filesize_raw":"13107624","date_recorded":"2022-11-04 14:01:01","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1671","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,1949,269,1950,1951,1952,945,964,1010,1068,6134,1954,1527,1542],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__repeat","tag-asa-gray","tag-charles-darwin","tag-george-w-f-hegel","tag-herbert-spencer","tag-lamarckianism","tag-macroevolution","tag-materialism","tag-microevolution","tag-natural-selection","tag-primary-causes","tag-secondary-cause","tag-theistic-evolution","tag-thomas-henry-huxley","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Nancy Pearcey"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/background-of-old-retro-photos-from-a-family-album-stockpack-adobe-stock-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/40870\/1671.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40870\/1671.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40870\/1671.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Nancy Pearcey Explains the Surprising Early History of Darwinism<\/a><\/blockquote>