Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.

Hello, I'm Andrew McDermott. Are life in the universe a mindless accident,

the blind outworking of laws governing

cosmic, chemical and biological evolution?

That's the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way.

But what does the science actually say?

Today I'm speaking with Robert Walter, professor and chair of the Department of

Biology at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. He also served as co-chair of the History

and Philosophy of Science section at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences,

and received his PhD in anatomy with a focus on neuroanatomy from Ohio State University.

Walter is co-author of a new book published by Discovery Institute press called Evolution

and Intelligent Design in a Nut shell.

Rob, welcome to the show.

It's good to be here, Andrew.

So tell us about the chapter you wrote for this book.

It's called Irreducible Complexity and Evolution.

And what role does it play in the larger theme of the book?

Sure. When I began writing this chapter, my task was to kind of lay out evolution and some of the issues related to biology.

The previous three chapters dealt with some larger issues such as the origin of the

universe and the origin of life. But now once we have living forms then

evolution is a relevant topic and as it stands evolution kind of is in

opposition to intelligent design in many ways because the features

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