Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important, but many of us aren't sure exactly why. Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the processes of sleep emerge in living things? Could a gradual Darwinian process be responsible, or are the systems involved another instance of intelligent design? On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin about the origin and intelligent design of sleep. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 next! Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.1	welcome to ID the future I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I'm
0:16.5	welcoming back Dr Eric Hiddein to discuss his recent articles at
0:20.7	Evolution News on the intelligent design of sleep. Dr. Hadeen is Professor
0:26.1	Emeritus of physics and astronomy at Ball State University in Indiana. He's author of the
0:31.9	recent book,
0:32.7	Cancelled Science, what some atheists don't want you to see.
0:37.2	He speaks regularly at universities around the country
0:40.1	and writes on the evidence for intelligent design very eloquently at evolution news.org.
0:46.0	Dr. Hadeen, welcome back to ID the future.
0:49.0	Well, thank you very much, Andrew.
0:51.0	I really appreciate the opportunity to be talking with you again.
0:55.0	Looking forward to our conversation today about sleep.
0:58.0	Yeah, well you regularly contribute articles to our flagship news and commentary source evolution
1:04.4	news.org. You've written too recently on the subject of sleep that I wanted to
1:09.6	unpack a little bit here on the show. The articles are well written and they stand for themselves
1:14.4	obviously, but it's nice to be able to have a back and forth discussion about some of the
1:18.7	points you make in real time and that exactly what we can do on a podcast like this. Now first let me start with this.
1:27.2	Why do we even sleep in the first place? It's easy to take for granted the significance of
1:32.0	those hours we pass and sleep every day. It's the significance of those hours we pass and sleep every day. It's the activity we spend the most time doing in our lives.
1:38.0	That's astounding, really. We're asleep almost 26 years of our life on average, based on the average lifespan of 79 years.
1:46.4	That's 9,500 days or 228,000 hours.
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