How the Origin of Our Digits Points to Process of Foresight

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Let's talk about your digits. No, not your phone number - your fingers and toes, those dangling things on the ends of our hands and feet! Ever wondered how they form during embryonic development? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes back Dr. Jonathan McLatchie to discuss the incredible process of apoptosis that shapes our fingers and toes, and why the operation is better explained by intelligent design than a stepwise evolutionary process. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.6	Have you ever wondered how our fingers and toes form during embryonic development?
0:17.0	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid.
0:20.6	And today my guest is Dr. Jonathan McClatchy to continue our ongoing series unpacking the many examples of intelligently designed systems in biology.
0:30.1	Today we're talking about our digits. No, not our phone number, our fingers and toes, those dangly things on the ends of our arms and
0:38.8	legs that make life so much more livable. Dr. McClatchy is a fellow and resident biologist
0:45.2	at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He was previously an assistant
0:49.7	professor at Sadler College in Boston, where he lectured on biology for four years.
0:55.4	McClatchy holds a bachelor's degree in forensic biology, a master's in evolutionary biology,
1:00.7	a second master's in medical and molecular bio science, and a PhD in evolutionary biology.
1:07.4	His research interests include the scientific evidence of design and nature,
1:15.0	arguments for the existence of God, and New Testament scholarship.
1:19.5	Jonathan is also founder and director of talkabout doubts.com.
1:20.8	Welcome, Jonathan.
1:23.3	Great to be here. Thanks for having me on again.
1:31.3	So this interview is part of an ongoing series we're doing on ID the Future, unpacking numerous examples of design in biology.
1:41.7	We've had discussions about the intelligent design of muscles, hearing, the sexual reproductive system, and the spicy problems it produces for a Darwinian paradigm.
1:45.3	The blood clotting cascade that kicks in when we get injured.
1:49.8	We've talked about the irreducible complexity of bacterial cell division and the bacterial phlegelum.
1:51.0	We've looked at the properties of carbon and other non-mental elements that allow for complex
1:55.3	life to flourish.
1:56.9	And we've reviewed the life-giving qualities of water and sunlight. So we've talked about it quite a bit,
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