I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I. D. the Future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Today Dr. Emily Reeves discusses the

intersection of biology and engineering with Fred Williams and Doug McBurney, hosts of the Real Science Radio Podcast.

Dr Reeves explains the importance of using engineering principles to understand biological systems. She shares her journey from being an intern at MIT to studying bacteria in

graduate school at Texas A&M and how our faith in God was strengthened through her studies.

During the conversation, Dr Reeves shares her experiences and reactions to promoting the design

perspective and biology, and emphasizes the predictive and creative potential

of a top-down design framework in biology.

Along the way, she also recommends books and papers

that explore the connection between engineering and biology.

Let's listen in to Dr. Emily Reeves as she explores this intriguing new perspective and

science.

Greetings to the brightest audience in the country. This is Real Science Radio. I'm

Fred Williams. And I'm Doug McBurney, Bible student, Science Geek, Amateur Comedian,

Fred. It is great to be with you again talking about real science on Friday.

So Doug we had a listener email us in about an article that they saw on Discovery Institute and it was titled

Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for biology and as you can

imagine that really peaked my interest.

And I noticed it was written by a Dr. Emily Reeves.

She has a PhD in biochemistry and biophysics from Texas A&M, pretty impressive.

And then I noticed some other well-written and interesting articles that have titles that just really hit me, and they just compelled me to go read them.

One of them, for example, the cell as an embedded computing system.

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