Metals: The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. Can a Darwinian process take the credit? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Ball State University in Indiana. Dr. Hedin describes the conditions within ourselves and the conditions within our environment that were finely tuned to allow for our successful utilization of metals. He also speaks to what our use of metals reveals about the moral character of human nature, and why metals remain vital to us today. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Don't miss Part 1! Source

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. D. the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm
0:16.2	excited to continue my conversation with Dr Eric Heddin on the
0:20.1	finally tuned origin and availability of metals for human use and how metals play an essential
0:26.0	role in the cellular processes that keep us alive.
0:30.0	Dr. Heddin is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University in Indiana.
0:36.2	He is author of the book, Cancelled Science, what some atheists don't want you to see.
0:41.9	He speaks regularly at universities around the country and writes
0:45.2	on the evidence for intelligent design at evolution news.org.
0:50.4	Dr. Hadeen, welcome back. Thank you very much, Andrew.
0:54.0	It's great to be with you here again.
0:56.0	Well, we're discussing a series of three articles you wrote earlier this year for Evolution
1:00.8	News.org.
1:02.4	And in the first half of the conversation,
1:04.0	we discuss the cosmic origins of metals
1:07.0	and the confluence of conditions required
1:10.0	to make metals accessible to us.
1:12.0	We also discuss the crucial role of metals in life's
1:15.2	cellular processes. Today I thought we'd go a little deeper into the history of our use of metals
1:21.5	and what it reveals to everybody that studies this about the moral character
1:26.2	of human nature.
1:28.2	Now first let's briefly review some of the points we made in part one.
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