Hitting the Brakes on ‘Rapid Evolution’

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson concludes his Why It Matters interview with microbiologist Dr. Scott Minnich. In Part 2, Dr. Minnich critiques Lenski's famous Long Term Evolutionary Experiments. Through experiments of his own, Minnich has shown how the practical results of Lenski's project on E. coli are easily repeatable under different conditions, and how some key changes to E. coli are even reversible, both of which speak more to an organism's pre-existing capabilities than to a Darwinian explanation. This is the conclusion to a two-part interview.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. The Future I'm your host Eric Anderson and today I'm continuing our
0:16.5	Why It Matters series with the second half of my conversation with Dr Scott Minnick.
0:20.7	Previously Dr Minick shared his personal journey to intelligent design and why it matters to him to continue
0:26.6	sharing the evidence for designing the world.
0:28.9	As we taught, Dr. Minick shares how he became involved in reviewing the results of the famous long-term evolutionary
0:34.2	experiment of Richard Lensky, and how he and his colleagues conclusively demonstrated that the
0:38.3	implications of this important experiment were not, as the supporters of Darwinian evolution had claimed.
0:43.7	We now join the conversation as I asked Dr Minnick what advice he would give someone who is sitting
0:48.1	on the fence about intelligent design.
0:50.8	What advice would you give to someone who maybe is sitting on the fence about intelligent design or has heard about it not sure what to make of this?
0:57.0	Read, read both sides, you know, go deep, I think, you know, there's always a new challenge and you have to keep an open mind.
1:07.0	I remember an instance in 2004, you know, somebody slipped a nature article under my door. I came into work in a lab about 10 o'clock and there was this paper on a floor of my office and it was from Lenski's lab, you know, where they had this program,
1:23.7	Avita, to show how information could be generated naturally.
1:29.6	And, you know, I read it.
1:32.4	I read it carefully. I thought, okay, you know, maybe they've done it.
1:35.1	And but then you could, you know, and their arguments against it that are good. But I started
1:41.0	following that work and following this long-term evolution experiments.
1:46.2	And when he got a mutant that was growing on citrate, I thought, no way, you know, I mean, I wasn't questioning that he got it but it wasn't, you know, it wasn't some
1:56.5	contingent mutation dependent upon all these neutral or mutations to begin with, you know, that couldn't be repeated.
2:06.0	Trained by the person that discovered that E. coli could grow on a sitrate anaerobically.
2:11.0	You know, there was two cokeops, stokes that came out of Van Neel's group in in
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