Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Got a smartphone? As complicated a machine as it is, it doesn't compare to the incredible sophistication found in biological life. On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, we hear from two contributors to the Crossway anthology, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, Molecular biologist Douglas Axe and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer explain how Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley, and shouts intelligent design. They compare some of today’s technological marvels to living technology, and show how even “simple cells” far exceed even the best silicon valley has to offer. As Meyer says: "Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a genuine biological process. What we do doubt is that those mechanisms have the power to generate fundamentally new forms of life." For more from Dr. Axe and Dr. Meyer, watch their short documentary film The Information Enigma. Also catch this article about the nanotechnology inside us, co-written by Meyer and Andrew McDiarmid. Search by the title: The Coolest Tech on the Planet (Hint: It's Inside You!)

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:14.0	I'm Tom Gilson.
0:15.0	Today's episode, Carbon Valley Trump Silicon Valley and Shouts intelligent design.
0:21.0	Recently, Crossway Books published a weighty tome critiquing
0:25.3	theistic evolution, appropriately titled Theistic Evolution, a scientific,
0:30.1	philosophical, and theological critique.
0:33.0	Because it's in anthology, it's easy to dip into just those articles and authors that interest you.
0:39.0	Crossway also puts some of the authors behind the camera and asked them to boil down key
0:44.0	takeaways from the book. Today I'm pleased to bring you segments from two of
0:47.9	those interviews. The two authors, Engineer turned Molecular Bi Douglas Axe, and Cambridge trained philosopher of science Stephen Meyer.
0:58.0	First up, Doug Axe talks about how relatively simple biological forms fastly outstrip the human technological
1:05.5	wonders we find around us.
1:08.0	Okay, we look at something like an iPhone and it is a marvel right a technological marvel it's far beyond
1:14.8	things of yesteryear that were technological marvel so you look at a steam engine
1:19.6	it's complex but you look at an iPhone and it's like mind-bogglingly complex no one could pick up an iPhone, and it's like mind-bogglingly complex.
1:24.2	No one could pick up an iPhone or a smartphone of any kind and think that it was an accident, right?
1:29.4	We know that thousands of people spent probably millions of hours on the different aspects of this, the
1:36.1	different components that go into something like this. It doesn't happen by accident. It might not
1:41.1	be quite as obvious to a non-biologist how much more complex even a simple organism,
1:48.2	a worm, a firefly, is then a smartphone.
1:52.1	But it's true.
1:53.2	If you look at the inner workings of something
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