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Defenders Podcast

Defenders: Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 32)

Defenders Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Defenders: Excursus on Creation of Life and Biological Diversity (Part 32)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

0:06.0

Today, the creation of life and biological diversity, part 32.

0:11.0

For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org.

0:17.0

During our last session, we examined the evidence for the doctrine of common ancestry,

0:24.6

and we saw that the evidence for that thesis is mixed.

0:28.6

I think the genetic evidence provides significant support for it,

0:34.6

but the fossil evidence seems to tend against it.

0:39.3

The absence of transitional forms in the fossil record, combined with the evidence of genetics,

0:47.3

suggests that if the thesis of common ancestry is true, then there's something wrong with the explanatory mechanisms

0:57.0

of Neo-Darwinism. The Neodarwinian explanatory mechanisms need to be able to give us a good

1:04.0

account of both the genetic and the fossil evidence if they are to commend themselves to us.

1:13.6

Now before we look more closely at those Neo-Darwinian mechanisms, I want to say a word

1:18.6

about a couple of questions that were asked last week that I had to beg off on.

1:25.6

One of them was if I could think of any transitional forms.

1:30.3

You remember we distinguish between a transitional form, which is a sort of evolutionary

1:37.3

bridge from an ancestral organism to a later organism, and an intermediate form, which is a kind of blend of two different types of organisms.

1:50.9

And the intermediate forms are not necessarily ancestral to each other.

1:57.3

So someone asked, well, what would be an example of a transitional form?

2:01.6

Well, on the way home, I thought of two possible examples.

2:06.6

One is an organism called a Ticktaleet.

2:11.6

This was a fish that lived about 375 million years ago in the so-called Devonian period.

2:21.3

And like the modern lungfish, it was a fish that had the ability to raise itself up out of the water

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