Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.

Greetings, I'm Andrew McDermott. Many of us were taught that life and the universe are a mindless accident,

the blind outworking of laws governing cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution.

But how does this official story compare to what the science actually says?

Today I'm back with Robert Walter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at

Bellhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. He served as co-chair of the History and Philosophy

of Science section at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, and received

his PhD in anatomy with a focus on neuroanatomy from Ohio State University.

Walter is co-author of a new book published by Discovery Institute

Press called Evolution and Intelligent Design in a nutshell. Rob, welcome back.

It's good to be here, Andrew. We left off in a previous episode talking about

how irreducible complexity could cause real problems for Darwin's theory. Let's pick up from there.

Why is this idea such a problem for Darwinian evolution?

And can you also remind our listeners

the challenge in Darwin's own words

that he mentioned in his writing?

Sure.

So the challenge, that is the test that Darwin presented that claimed that his theory would break down

was that if it could be found that any complex organ existed

which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight

modifications then his theory would absolutely break down.

Okay, so tell us about irreducible complexity and how that ties into it.

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