Dembski & Tour: Why Chance Doesn’t Have a Chance

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Astronomy, Life Sciences, Science

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are life and the universe products of chance, necessity, or design? In anticipation of a new updated second edition of his classic book The Design Inference, out this month, today’s ID the Future from the archive features Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour and intelligent design pioneer William Dembski concluding their discussion about the origin and role of information in living things. Here in Part 2, Dr. Dembski tackles questions from Dr. Tour's audience on topics like information theory, probability theory, the origin of life, evolution, the multiverse hypothesis, and Dembski’s contributions to the theory of intelligent design. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.

Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design. When your proposal starts having to overcome odds on the order of one in
0:17.2	10 to the billions power you know you've got some work to do on it.
0:21.8	Hello I'm Tom Gilson and today on ID the future,
0:26.0	we are going to hear the second part of a conversation
0:29.6	between Rice University synthetic chemist James Tour and Dr. William Dembski, an expert in
0:36.4	probability theory and intelligent design as they talk about probabilities and
0:41.6	in probabilities that naturalistic evolution talk about probabilities and improbabilities that
0:43.4	naturalistic evolution has to overcome
0:46.3	in order to be a viable theory.
0:48.9	This is the second part of a conversation
0:51.8	that originally aired on Dr. Tours a science and
0:56.4	faith podcast and is used here by his permission.
1:02.3	We're going to turn to some questions now from our YouTube audience.
1:07.0	And so, uh, so let's see if you can handle these, Bill.
1:12.1	You look like you're in shape, so we'll see if you can handle these.
1:15.1	The physical and the mental that they work together here okay.
1:21.6	Yeah in the protein synthesis, a sequence of nucleotides is red and transcribed, and the sequence is then
1:29.2	translated into an amino acid sequence, what chemical explanation exists for the writing of the sequence
1:37.7	into the DNA or RNA molecule in the first place? Given the age of our universe is chance and time sufficient.
1:45.6	Well, you know, I think if you're just trying to create DNA sequences or protein sequences in some sort of prebiotic conditions.
1:55.8	I think you spoke to it essentially, I mean, you know, you even if you have a chemical supply
2:02.4	company, you know company, then it may help you.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.