Upcoming: Episode 63 – Meet John Egan
June 23rd, 2009 by ShaneThe Dime ventures into controversy this week, welcoming historian John Egan to the show. The topic of this week’s show is whether the swine flu pandemic was intentional, and if so, does it arise from a modern eugenic movement? While not directly a libertarian topic, the Dime wanted to confront a fringe aspect of the libertarian/conservative movement. This show could go many ways, all of them interesting!
Short bio:
John Egan grew up in Levittown, Long Island. He studied History at Hofstra University with a Bachelor’s degree. He studied German language at the Goethe Institute in Munich and also graduated from the Heartwood Institute for the Natural Healing Arts in Garberville, California.
Be sure to listen, live, on Wednesday, June 24th at 8:30PM CDT:
http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/20976
June 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I was a tad disappointed in the interview, mainly because the interviewer argued against the idea of intelligent design without clearly defining it’s principles.
Just saying “it’s creation”, listening to the guest, then saying, “it’s creation” again doesn’t mark the interviewer as brightest “dime” in the bag.
Listen to yourself. were you even agreed to the foundation before you built upon it? Poor form indeed.
It’s obvious that the interviewer was unclear on the contents of i.d. theory.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Gregory,
The show’s length and format didn’t really allow me to go into depths of why ID is just warmed over creationism. I would point you to the document I mentioned in the show, where “Creation Science” was simply replaced with “Intelligent Design”, complete with search and replace mistakes artifacts.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
How many hours would be necessary for you to regurgitate the basic principle you disagree with? 3? 5? The podcast was nearly 2 hours long. If One person says ID is creation, and the other says it’s not, then doesn’t the most rudimentary reasoning ability point to defining the terms of disagreement? Otherwise, You end up with two supposedly educated men, who only appear to be discussing the same thing. The interviewer is convinced that the guest is proposing creation as science, and the guest is moving on assuming that you actually understand what Intelligent design advocates. Like I said before, it’s bad form, and unfair to everyone involved.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Greg,
I’ll be doing a small segment on tonigh’s show if you’re interested. Still, I would point out that I did mention on the show about the founding document of ID simply being search and replaced. I’ll have more details tonight.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I am playing catch-up and this is the first LD podcast episode I listened to, so I apologize if a few of these questions are obvious to those that are familiar with you. The bulk of my curiosity has to do with understanding libertarian mindset more.
What does evolution have to do with biology? I never took biology but had the understanding/expectation that it had to do with physiology or “how things are”, not about origin of species?
What does evolution have to do with libertarian or the LD perspective? Can you point me to what was meant by libertarian academic mandates?
One of the responses on this episode seemed dismissive of micro-evolution. Why? And why was Intelligent Design part of the conversation with biology? I am not defending Intelligent Design but I.D. has more to do with “origin” than Darwinism does and has more chance to explain origin. Darwin’s theories cannot scientifically PROVE origin, so if the extrapolation validates evolution origin to ‘science’, then I.D. is JUST as much science in that aspect, right?
I read a book (I’ll look up the title later if it matters) that talked about different types of evolutional theory, creationism and I.D, plus Bios Logos (which I actually thought was more of a cop out to get Evolution and Creationism to play nice together). Have you broadcast thoughts on that?
That’s just a brain dump to start my curiosity about you guys. Thanks.