A PhD Evolutionary Biologist on Why He Embraces Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this episode, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie takes us on a deep dive into two classic examples of irreducibly complex systems - the bacterial flagellar motor and the process of DNA replication in cell division. He explains the intricacies of each process and shows why each stands up to scrutiny as a true example of irreducible complexity. Along the way, he explains why the RNA world scenario isn't likely to be the answer to irreducible complexity that materialists are looking for. And near the end, be sure to listen to McLatchie explain the "likelihood ratio"of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. In a previous episode of ID The Future, we brought you into a meeting of the Cincinnati Dayton Apologetic Fellowship, which I co-lead, where I hosted a podcast recording with
0:26.4	Jonathan McClatchi. Dr. McClatchi speaks and writes on intelligent design and a broad range of other topics related to the
0:35.0	truth of Christianity and he holds a PhD in evolutionary biology and is
0:40.5	assistant professor of microbiology at Sattler College.
0:45.0	Dr. McClatchy stayed with the Apologetics Fellowship for a Q&A after that session via Zoom.
0:51.0	And that Q&A session is today's episode.
0:54.0	Two of the audience questions turned out to be difficult to hear on the
0:58.0	recording, so I'll jump in at those points to summarize them.
1:06.0	How long you have to hang out with this year? Do you want to hang around for a while?
1:08.0	Sure, I can go for as long as you want.
1:10.0	Okay.
1:11.0	This is time to talk, yeah.
1:14.0	The first question came from someone who was seated too far from the mic to be heard.
1:19.0	She asked about protein folds.
1:22.0	They're so complex and it's a very complex question about the nature of complexity and protein folds.
1:29.0	And if a protein doesn't fold correctly, you have an interruption or a failure in the folding.
1:36.8	What causes it to not get the right signals?
1:40.9	Wondering if you could expand on that. And then again later she asked about the
1:46.6	nature of complexity. Sure so there has been a number of papers published on the
1:52.2	rarity of protein structures within
1:55.0	commentarial space. So there's 20 different amino acids that form biological
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