ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid.

Today, David Klinghofer reads to us from his new book, Plato's Revenge,

the new signs of the immaterial genome, now available from Discovery Institute Press.

This is a compact book, but it's the story of a very big idea,

and one that has the potential to usher in the next great revolution in biology.

You may be familiar with David's work as editor of our flagship news and commentary site,

Evolution News and Science Today.

He's a Discovery Institute senior fellow and former senior editor at National Review.

His books include The Discovery of God, The Lord Will Gather Me In, and as editor, Debating Darwin's Doubt.

He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

In a few moments, you'll hear David read the introduction to his new book.

First, a few words on what it's about, and I'll share some advanced praise that's been given to the book.

First, there was the genetic revolution, the discovery that physical structures in the cell,

including DNA and RNA, shape every organism.

Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution.

Recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the

rich dynamism of life, not even close. Some other informational source is required. The idea was

anticipated 2400 years ago in Plato's Temaeus, and periodically

revisited in the ensuing centuries. Sidelined by scientific materialism, it's now

reasserting itself on the strength of cutting-edge molecular biology, higher mathematics, and common-sense

reasoning.

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