I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I.D. the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I'd like to profile for you English naturalist and author Margaret Gatti.

I'll share about the basics of her life, the books she wrote, and how she

responded to the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Original Species.

If you've been listening to ID the future for a while or reading

our news and commentary at evolutionnews.org, you'll likely be familiar with the growing evidence

of design and nature. As Biochemist Michael B he has put it, we're

living through a revolution in molecular biology brought about by advances in the

last century of technology that has allowed us to see inside the cell, that black box that Charles Darwin and his 19th century contemporaries were not yet able to comprehend.

Today we know the living cell contains layer upon layer of complexity and design

veritable factories full of precision-engineered protein machines that perform the

life-giving functions of life.

B, he says, that in order to appreciate the complexity behind life,

we have to experience it.

Well, for the last half century and more, that's exactly what we've been able to do.

And in the face of this evidence of complexity and design, more and more biologists are finding

it untenable to maintain that gradual evolutionary processes like natural selection could be responsible

for such remarkable feats.

And so some are calling for a new theory of evolution. Some are jumping ship and shifting to a design

perspective in their work, opening up new questions and avenues for research, even

as they may suffer professionally for their boldness.

And some, afraid to go against the grain, simply continue to put their faith in a dying theory.

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