10 episodes

News comes and news goes, but there are some questions that never go away. On Great Minds with Michael Medved, Discovery Institute brings conversations about perennial, ultimate issues that go to the core of our shared values. Each show features a particularly deep and original thinker, a great mind to help us explore great ideas.

Great Minds with Michael Medved Discovery Institute

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 95 Ratings

News comes and news goes, but there are some questions that never go away. On Great Minds with Michael Medved, Discovery Institute brings conversations about perennial, ultimate issues that go to the core of our shared values. Each show features a particularly deep and original thinker, a great mind to help us explore great ideas.

    Thinking Outside the Materialist Box | Robert J. Marks II

    Thinking Outside the Materialist Box | Robert J. Marks II

    The presumption of materialism lies at the root of much of today's journalism and speculation about the future of artificial intelligence. Indeed, it has generated volumes and volumes of hype. A materialistic understanding of human abilities like consciousness, creativity, love, and freedom produce two corollary errors: an overestimation of the potential of algorithms and a downgrading of those qualities in humans. In this episode of Great Minds, Michael Medved discusses these inherent limitations of artificial intelligence and the prospects that AI will evolve into something like ourselves.

    • 21 min
    Conserving Great Ideas | David Gelernter

    Conserving Great Ideas | David Gelernter

    To be a conservative, says Yale polymath David Gelernter, is to “give due credit to the ideas that created the civilization we live within.” A simple and beautiful summary. In a new podcast episode of Great Mind with Michael Medved, Dr. Gelernter talks with our host Mr. Medved about the shocking irresponsibility in the failure to introduce young people to the best achievements in thought. They also, however, discuss evidence that our civilization is due for a healthy correction as we “snap out” of the torpor that suppresses consideration of great ideas. If Gelernter is right, there’s reason for optimism.

    • 21 min
    Animals, Computers, and Distinctly Human Intelligence | Robert J. Marks II

    Animals, Computers, and Distinctly Human Intelligence | Robert J. Marks II

    Human intelligence sits between fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side: animal and artificial intelligence. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robert Marks and Michael Medved tackle questions like what it means for something to be not just unknown but “unknowable.”

    • 22 min
    Israel Tour with Michael Medved, Stephen Meyer, and George Gilder

    Israel Tour with Michael Medved, Stephen Meyer, and George Gilder

    Join Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and nationally-recognized talk show host Michael Medved for a once-in-a-lifetime experience in Israel from September 8-17, 2019. Visit the sites of both modern and ancient Israel as you explore the relationship between faith and science, discover the archeological evidence for Biblical history, investigate the role of entrepreneurship in the development of new technologies, and learn the amazing behind-the-scenes story of how modern Israel has survived against all odds.

    • 1 min
    Seeing Purpose in the Lives of Washington and Lincoln | Michael Medved with Stephen Meyer

    Seeing Purpose in the Lives of Washington and Lincoln | Michael Medved with Stephen Meyer

    The focus in this episode of Great Minds with Michael Medved is on a pair of giants, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who dazzle the student of our country’s history with evidence of a special guidance at work at numerous key junctures in their lives. The outcome of two great conflicts, the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, seem to have turned, in remarkable ways, upon bizarre providential twists. The consequences have been profound not just for the United States but for the world.

    • 21 min
    Providence in American History | Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer

    Providence in American History | Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer

    ID is a scientific theory competing with neo-Darwinian evolution, but it’s more than that: a paradigm for understanding human history, especially the history of the United States. In a new podcast episode of Great Minds with Michael Medved, Michael switches places with ID theorist Stephen Meyer to discuss his latest book, The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic.

    • 20 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
95 Ratings

95 Ratings

Dede Vic ,

NOTHING CURRENT ON MY APP

I really like this podcast but last date was January, 2019.
Please post new episodes or show me how I can get them.

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Phony

Listening to him try to doge all the double standards of Kamala and joe , tip toe around the leftist fascist policies. All to justify his pathetic vote and betrayal to the greatest nation on God’s green earth is nauseating!

Matt Fed ,

Big conversations about big ideas

Love this series....fill your mind with the good, the true, and the beautiful.

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