Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe’s central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin’s Black Box, Behe has argued that certain features in biology are irreducibly complex. That is, they require numerous essential parts, each carefully fitted to its task and integrated with the other parts, in order for the molecular machine or system to function at all. Two examples are the bacterial flagellum motor and the blood clotting cascade. Such systems are, in Behe’s words, irreducibly complex and could not have arisen through any blind and gradual evolution process. The better explanation for their Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello I'm Tom Gilson. Today on ID the future, we take one of the closer looks you'll ever
0:18.1	read or hear into the question of irreducible complexity. What kind of argument is it really and what
0:26.0	is its place in the design argument? Naturally the one doing the explaining is Michael
0:32.0	Behe, the Lehi University biochemist who originated
0:36.4	the idea of irreducible complexity in his 1995 book Darwin's Black Box. He's here answering a series of questions from
0:45.9	host Pat Flynn on Flynn's Philosophy for the People Podcast. This is the first in a series of three podcasts from B. He and Flynn on the
0:56.4	topic answering the best objections to irreducible complexity and intelligent
1:02.1	design.
1:04.0	Okay everybody we are back once again with Dr Michael Bihy
1:08.0	a man who really needs no introduction on this show anymore.
1:10.0	This is probably the fourth or fifth appearance and we're going to talk about his
1:14.1	theory of irreducible, complexity and intelligent design and this will be a special episode and this will be an episode for
1:19.8	those of you who've been following along with Dr. Behi's work in the previous
1:23.5	conversations and debates we've had because we're going to be building upon a lot
1:28.2	of those conversations in the work that Dr. Behi has done. I was kind of joking around with Dr. Behe
1:35.8	backstage that we must have done a fairly good job with addressing some of the
1:40.3	common objections to intelligent design and irreducible complexity because I kind of get the of the reading
1:43.7	common objections to intelligent design and irreducible complexity because I kind of get these
1:45.1	they're called like the reading list objections right what's like oh you guys
1:48.5	might have refuted Miller and these other guys but what about what about this guy what about the other guy and then they just throw the whole reading the reading list to you and hey you know fair enough and we have to be realistic here is that you can do what you can do you know both on a podcast and in print and
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