Ruminants, Moon Watchers Bedevil Darwin

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future host Andrew McDiarmid brings listeners a couple of fascinating recent articles from Evolution News & Science Today by David Coppedge. The first is “Animals Tune Behavior by Lunar Cycle; but How?” The second article is “Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved.” In the first, some ingenious molecular engineering crops up in widely divergent creatures, giving them some impressive abilities to read lunar cycles. The evolutionists’ go-to explanation is “convergent evolution,” an incantation that fails to explain how something like this could have evolved even once, much less multiple separate times. And in the second, a much-beloved story of ruminant tooth evolution gets a kick in the teeth from a series Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future,
0:05.0	future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:10.0	Greetings, and thanks for joining me today. I'm Andrew McDermott. On this
0:16.8	episode I'm sharing with you a couple of posts by David Coppich published at
0:21.4	evolution news.org.
0:23.3	In case you're not familiar, evolution news is the flagship news and commentary website of Discovery
0:28.7	Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:31.8	It's a wealth of information and wisdom on the debate over
0:34.2	intelligent design and evolution, as well as a host of related topics. The first post by
0:40.0	coppage is called Animals Toon behavior by a lunar cycle, but how?
0:46.6	Many unrelated animals tune their behavior by the lunar cycle.
0:50.4	How do they do it, given that sunlight overpowers moonlight?
0:54.0	Researchers in Austria think they've found a clue.
0:57.0	A cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle.
1:02.0	Cryptochrome proteins are also implicated in the geomagnetic sense and birds.
1:07.0	Whatever they found, it surely must represent only a piece of a biological puzzle.
1:12.0	Let them explain in this press release from the University of Veen.
1:16.0	Many marine organisms, including brown algae, fish, corals, turtles, and bristleworms synchronize their behavior and reproduction with the lunar cycle.
1:27.0	For some species, such as the bristle worm platinaries dumerally,
1:32.0	lab experiments have shown that moonlight exerts its timing function
1:36.1	by entraining an inner monthly calendar, also called a Circulunar Clock.
1:41.6	Under these laboratory conditions, mimicking the duration of the full moon is
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