Podcast: Intelligent Design and Evolution in a Nutshell
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
For more than a century and a half, evolution has been the center of a naturalistic account on how everything -- the universe, the earth, you and I -- came into existence. But for the last generation or so, a group of thoughtful experts in a variety of fields has challenged the dominance of evolutionary thought.
From a scientific and philosophical perspective, the Intelligent design movement has produced a wealth of books critiquing every aspect of the naturalistic account of origins for the laws of nature to the cell to the fossil records, DNA age, the origins of life itself.
Fortunately, there's a new resource that puts all of this in a brilliant little summary, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. Co-author Eric Anderson joins Shane Morris on today’s BreakPoint Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Shane Morris. Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. The debate over the origins of life and of our universe is one of the most intense and long-lasting in the scientific world. Evolution has for over a century and a half now been the center of a naturalistic account of how everything, the universe, the life on earth, and even you and I came into existence. |
| 0:22.6 | This debate is often painted as one between science and religious fundamentalism. |
| 0:27.6 | But for the last generation or so, a group of really thoughtful experts in a variety of fields |
| 0:32.2 | have challenged the dominance of evolutionary thought from a scientific and a philosophical perspective. |
| 0:38.8 | The Intelligent Design Movement has produced a wealth of books critiquing every aspect of the naturalistic account of origins, from the laws of nature to the cell, to the fossil record, to DNA, to the origins of life itself. |
| 0:52.2 | And that's a lot of books. |
| 0:53.5 | Fortunately, there's a new resource that puts all of this in a nifty little summary, |
| 0:58.3 | and I can't recommend it enough. |
| 0:59.8 | It's called Evolution and Intelligent Design in a nutshell, |
| 1:02.3 | evolution and intelligent design in a nutshell, rather, is the title. |
| 1:05.4 | And it's just what it sounds like, a succinct explanation of the basic arguments |
| 1:09.3 | that our universe and the life on our earth are the |
| 1:12.3 | product of design, not unguided processes. I'm joined today by Eric Anderson, one of the main |
| 1:18.1 | contributors to this book. He holds a jurist doctorate from Ruben Clark Law School, but has made |
| 1:24.3 | his name as an engineering executive and design theorist and also writes on intelligent |
| 1:28.7 | design at the website Uncommon Descent. Eric contributes to two of the fascinating chapters in this book, |
| 1:35.8 | one on information and the origin of life and one on self-replicating molecules. Trust me, |
| 1:41.3 | it's much more interesting than it sounds. Eric, welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. |
| 1:45.9 | Thanks, Shane. Glad to be here. |
| 1:47.6 | Well, let's start at the beginning. |
| 1:48.8 | What is intelligent design, and why is it that this gaggle of scientists and engineers and philosophers are challenging the naturalistic account of origins? |
| 1:59.8 | Sure. |
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