Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, Your Designed Body co-author and systems engineer Steve Laufmann continues his conversation with host and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor. In this episode, Laufmann reviews four causal factors involved in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and explains why they lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. To dive deeper into his argument, check out Laufmann’s new book co-authored with physician Howard Glicksman.

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I.D. the Future. This is Dr Michael Eggner. My guest today is Steve
0:17.4	Lofman. Steve and his colleague Howard Glixman have written a wonderful book
0:22.3	called Your Designed Body. It is an application of the
0:26.0	theory of intelligent design to understanding human physiology. It's a fascinating book and
0:32.4	Steve is an engineer who has a very deep background in engineering design.
0:38.0	I wanted to talk to Steve today about whether or not the Neo-Darwinian way of understanding evolution can
0:46.5	account for the design that we see in the human body.
0:50.6	So welcome Steve.
0:51.6	That's good to be here.
0:53.0	Thanks.
0:54.0	So do you feel that the Darwinian mechanisms of random heritable variation and natural selection
1:01.0	offer a plausible explanation for the apparent design in.
1:07.0	Well, so given that I'm here talking to you, the answer is probably going to be no it was a bit of a setup yet.
1:17.0	Yeah so let's just step back a little
1:23.0	factors that Darwin's theory contains.
1:26.0	From an engineering perspective, we can evaluate these.
1:29.7	So what we'll do is we'll take just a little engineering detour and that will involve looking at three
1:37.4	characteristics of each of Darwin's causal factors.
1:41.2	The first is the preconditions, what has to be true before this
1:45.2	causal factor can do anything. Okay, that's number one. The second thing is the
1:49.6	capabilities. What kinds of actions can this causal factor do? What kinds of outcomes can it bring about?
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