Get to Know This Mathematician’s Simple, Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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No amount of small, blind, and gradual changes to the steam engine could ever have produced the internal combustion engine. To get to that fundamentally new type of engine, an infusion of new information was required. That analogy can be applied to the origin of biological life too. The spectacular order, complexity, and design we see in life could not have been achieved gradually by a process that lacked foresight. On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes mathematician Granville Sewell to the podcast to share some of his compelling arguments for intelligent design. We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, way above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. But as Sewell points out, mathematicians are trained to value simplicity, and complex problems can often be solved in simple ways. Sewell's straightforward, yet profound arguments for intelligent design are worth memorizing and sharing with your friends, family, and associates. Source

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0:00.0	In fact, this is, in my opinion, also the strongest argument for intelligent design,
0:04.4	because if you don't believe there was intelligence involved in the creation of life
0:07.8	or the evolution of human intelligence,
0:10.7	you essentially believe that the fundamental unintelligent forces of physics alone
0:14.4	could have rearranged the basic particles of physics into computers, jet airplanes, and smartphones.
0:20.1	ID, the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:27.1	What does a mathematician have to say about the effectiveness of Darwinian evolution?
0:32.4	And in what ways does the development of life on Earth mirror the development of human technology?
0:38.0	And how does this lend support to the case for intelligent design and biology?
0:42.7	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:46.4	Today, my guest is mathematician and author Granville Sewell to discuss some of his
0:51.3	intriguing arguments for intelligent design as detailed in recent articles, videos, and books.
0:58.2	Sewell is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso.
1:03.5	He has also been employed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Purdue University, Universidad Simone Bolivar in Caracas, Texas A&M University, and elsewhere.
1:15.2	Sewell has written four advanced mathematics books, a widely used finite element program,
1:21.3	PDE2D, and the book in the beginning and other essays on intelligent design.
1:27.4	Welcome to the podcast, Granville. Thanks for the invitation. Absolutely. the book in the beginning and other essays on intelligent design.
1:29.0	Welcome to the podcast, Granville.
1:30.3	Thanks for the invitation.
1:31.6	Absolutely.
1:33.1	It's good to have you back.
1:35.8	I know it's been a little while since we heard your voice on the podcast.
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