Episodios

  • Emily Reeves on Intersection of Biology and Engineering

    Emily Reeves on Intersection of Biology and Engineering
    Jul 8 2024
    The biochemical revolution of the last century has revealed powerful evidence of design in living things. Now, scientists are beginning to realize the benefits of studying designed systems through an engineering lens. On today's episode, Dr. Emily Reeves discusses the intersection of biology and engineering with Fred Williams and Doug McBurney, hosts of the Real Science Radio podcast. In this 45-minute chat, Dr. Reeves explains the importance of using engineering principles to understand biological systems. This interview originally aired on Real Science Radio. Source
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    43 m
  • Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness

    Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness
    Jul 8 2024
    On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, radio host Michael Medved sits down with bestselling science author Stephen Meyer to discuss the Marvel movie Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Medved isn’t wild about the film, but he uses it as a springboard to dive into what he calls “the madness of the multiverse”—namely, the proposals in physics and cosmology for the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Meyer explains some of the early motivations among twentieth-century physicists and cosmologists for proposing such an exotic theory. Then he turns to what he says is the main driver for interest in the multiverse in our day—a desire to explain away something that is deeply puzzling on the grounds of atheism: that the laws and constants of physics and chemistry are exquisitely fine tuned for life. Source
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    18 m
  • Dr. Jonathan Loose on Personal Identity and the Life Scientific

    Dr. Jonathan Loose on Personal Identity and the Life Scientific
    Jul 5 2024
    49 m
  • The Irreducible Complexity Found in Bacterial Cell Division

    The Irreducible Complexity Found in Bacterial Cell Division
    Jul 3 2024
    Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back, this time to discuss with host Andrew McDiarmid the engineering elegance and irreducible complexity of the process of bacterial cell division. You may wonder why we should care about something so minuscule as bacterial cells. After all, something so insignificant and unseen has little bearing on our daily lives. But if we've learned anything in the biological revolution of the 20th century, it's that consequential things often come in very small packages. And if even the simplest forms of life exhibit stunning complexity and engineering prowess, all the more do we! And that complexity and design demands an adequate explanation. Here, McLatchie describes the remarkable process of cell wall breakage and re-synthesis that allows cell division to take place and explains why it's a big problem for Darwinian evolution. Source
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    21 m
  • Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

    Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?
    Jul 2 2024
    33 m
  • Biochemist Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

    Biochemist Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life
    Jul 2 2024
    19 m
  • Trail Life: An Antidote for Digital Addiction in Boys

    Trail Life: An Antidote for Digital Addiction in Boys
    Jun 27 2024
    1 h y 4 m
  • The Engineered Adaptability of the Humble Guppy

    The Engineered Adaptability of the Humble Guppy
    Jun 26 2024
    Do living things evolve right before our eyes? Perhaps the most common evidence put forward to support evolutionary theory is the observation that organisms can adapt. But is this adaptability really a hallmark of a gradual Darwinian process? Or is it evidence of intelligent design? On this ID The Future, host Eric Anderson speaks with Dr. Emily Reeves about the adaptability of the humble guppy fish, a new icon of evolution heralded by biologists as proof positive of Darwinian evolutionary processes at work. In this episode, Dr. Reeves uses guppies to discuss why the adaptability of organisms is actually powerful evidence of design. She also explains how biologists can improve their abilities as scientists by learning more about engineering. Source
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    39 m