Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On this ID The Future, host Casey Luskin talks with Eric Anderson on location at this year's Conference on Engineering and Living Systems (CELS). The two discuss an intriguing new engineering-based model of bounded adaptation that could dramatically change how we view small-scale evolutionary changes within populations of organisms. In presenting his argument for natural selection, Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Many have adopted this perspective, quick to grant the Darwinian mechanism credit for micro, if not macro, evolution. But Anderson and other attendees of the CELS conference are starting to promote a different view. "We need to stop saying organisms are partly designed," says Anderson. "We need to view them as deeply designed and purposeful, active and engaged in their environments, and capable of adapting within their operating parameters." Tune in to get a fascinating glimpse of this novel approach to biology.

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0:00.0	I.
0:14.6	The Future.
0:15.6	We're broadcasting today from Denton, Texas at our second conference on
0:19.8	engineering and living systems.
0:21.8	I have with me a person whose voice is very familiar to
0:24.8	ID the future listeners Eric Anderson who is co organizer of the conference and
0:29.5	also co organizer on the engineering research group which helped to put on this conference.
0:34.3	So Eric, it's great to have you on the show as a guest and not as a host this time.
0:38.7	Yeah, thank you, Casey.
0:39.7	It's an honor to be here.
0:40.7	Pretty great to be on the other side of the microphone today.
0:43.0	Well, you more than deserve it.
0:45.0	You guys did a fantastic job organizing this conference.
0:47.0	We had what, 60 attendees or how many attendees?
0:50.0	And it close to 80.
0:52.0	80. 80.
0:53.0	80, okay, I'm way under, including biologists and engineers who together are trying to understand
0:58.0	how we can study biology through an engineering lens.
1:01.4	We had lots of fascinating talks about you know how we can
1:05.1	from from biologists about the complexity of biology from engineers about how we can
1:11.0	use engineering to understand biological systems, signaling, genetic switches,
1:17.0	circuits, just all kinds of fascinating topics.
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