Protein Evolution, The Waiting Times Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this ID The Future, host Eric Anderson gets an update on the recent work of Dr. Ann Gauger, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Gauger explains her continuing research into the limits of protein evolution, efforts that are challenging the prevailing assumptions of the role of proteins and mutations in a Darwinian account of life. She also discusses her work on the related waiting times problem, demonstrating the difficulty of Darwinian processes to account for the diversity we see in biology. In addition, Ann shares her journey into researching human origins. After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann dove into population genetics to see if monogenesis - the hypothesis that all humans are descended from two first parents - was even a possibility. What she discovered may surprise you. Don't miss this review of Dr. Gauger's fascinating and important research.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design in the debate over evolution and intelligent design, we often talk a lot about Charles Darwin or
0:17.1	Jacques Manode or the Huxley's or other key figures of the past.
0:20.7	But what is going on right now? Actual research relating to evolution and
0:24.4	intelligent design. Hello, I'm Eric Anderson and today on our show we have Dr.
0:28.6	Ann Gager to talk about some of her recent and current work. Gager is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture
0:36.0	and has published papers on the waiting time problem and the limits of protein evolution.
0:40.0	She holds degrees in biology, zoology, and is carried out post-doc work in molecular biology at Harvard.
0:46.2	Welcome, Anne.
0:47.2	Hi Eric, it's good to be here.
0:48.9	So Anne, we had you on the show not too long ago to talk about your background and experiences and why it matters to
0:54.6	you to keep following the evidence where it leads even in the face of challenges.
0:58.1	Again, appreciate you sharing those experiences. It was both interesting and
1:02.2	inspiring to me and I certainly encourage
1:04.6	any listeners who didn't get to hear that conversation to check it out.
1:07.3	Yeah I appreciated being on the show and I'm glad that I get to share what work has been done.
1:13.7	Thanks.
1:14.6	So today I'd like to piggyback on your experiences,
1:17.8	but have you talk about your recent and current scientific work
1:20.7	you're pursuing.
1:21.4	First, tell us about your work with proteins. So Doug Axe published a famous paper in 2004 where he demonstrated that the rarity of a specific protein pulled in sequence space was on the order of one in 10 to the
1:37.4	77th, which is one with 77 zeros after it.
1:42.0	Now that's a huge rarity.
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