Lee Spetner Critiques Convergent Evolution

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future out of the vault, we bring you the last of three short interviews with MIT-trained physicist Dr. Lee Spetner. We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Dr. Spetner at 91 years old, and we’re sharing these conversations in tribute to his significant contributions to the evolution debate. Host Ira Berkowitz interviews Dr. Spetner in Jerusalem. Together they explore key arguments from Spetner’s books Not by Chance and The Evolution Revolution. Here, Spetner challenges the idea of convergent evolution and explains his non-random evolutionary hypothesis. This is Part 3 of a three-part interview. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2. Dig Deeper Source

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0:13.0	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your guest host today. I'm a teacher and Ira Verquit speaking to you from Jerusalem, Israel. I'm a teacher and writer with a long time interest in evolution,
0:16.0	but I think I've learned the most about the subject for my guest today, Dr. Lee Spetner.
0:20.0	His two books, Not By Chance, and the Evolution Revolution demonstrate adroitly that Darwinian
0:26.1	evolution should finally be retired.
0:29.1	As well, Dr. Spetner makes a strong case for his own hypothesis about how evolution really works. Mr. at Johns Hopkins University and worked for decades in Military Electronics R&D.
0:45.6	He's written dozens of papers and holds a few patents to boot.
0:48.7	It's a privilege to be speaking with him today.
0:50.8	I want to kick off today's conversation by talking about the problem of convergence.
0:54.8	Dr. Spentner, for those new to the concept and as a refresher for everyone else, what is convergence?
1:01.6	Convergence or convergent evolution
1:03.2	is the concept that was really made up by the evolutionists
1:08.0	to overcome the difficulty in their construction of phylogenetic trees.
1:15.7	According to them, all life stemmed
1:19.2	from some simple beginning
1:21.3	and through random mutations and natural selection evolved into all the many faceted versions of life that we find with us today.
1:31.0	And they tried to construct a tree that works and shows that one
1:37.0	thing evolved from another, which means that they are looking for a tree
1:42.4	structure in which organisms that are far apart on a tree are
1:49.8	distance from each other genetically and organisms that are very close are close to one
1:57.0	another on the tree. To turn it around, organisms that are very close genetically should be close to each other on the tree
2:06.4	and organisms that are far apart genetically should be far apart of the tree and
2:11.9	they found that it didn't work because they found
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