Metals & Life: A Finely Tuned Alliance

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Ball State University in Indiana. Dr. Hedin tells the fascinating story of the origin of metals, the finely tuned set of conditions that allow for our use of metals, and the crucial role metals play in our survival. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 next! Source

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0:00.0	I.
0:03.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today it's my pleasure to welcome
0:17.4	Dr Eric Heddine to begin a two-part discussion on the finely tuned origin and availability of metals for human use and how metals play an essential role in the cellular processes that keep us alive.
0:31.0	Dr. Hadeen is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at
0:34.9	Ball State University in Indiana. He is author of the recent book
0:38.9	Cancelled Science, what some atheists don't want you to see.
0:43.0	He speaks regularly at universities around the country
0:46.0	and writes on the evidence for intelligent design
0:49.0	at evolutionnews.org.
0:52.0	evolution news.
0:53.0	Dr. Hadeen, welcome.
0:55.0	Thank you, Andrew.
0:56.0	It's a pleasure to be with you again here and looking forward to our conversation today.
1:00.0	Absolutely, it's always fun to unpack the articles that you're writing at Evolution News.
1:06.3	You regularly contribute articles to our flagship news and commentary source, Evolution News.org. And earlier this year you wrote a series of three articles
1:15.5	on metals and life that I wanted to unpack a bit on the podcast. In your first article, from Stars to Cells, you write this.
1:24.0	The story of metals and their utilization by humans
1:28.0	reveals substantial fine-tuning,
1:30.0	involving features of planet Earth
1:32.0	that are complementary with human cognitive and physical abilities.
1:36.0	The significance of metal usage for humanity, it's such that eras of human history beyond the Stone Age are commonly demarcated by the prevailing usage of certain types of metals.
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