Sex: Engineered for Success

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. But can we really credit a gradual evolutionary process for this remarkable system? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory and why instead it bears the hallmarks of a system governed by forethought and engineering. Dr. McLatchie covers two more components and explains why they are beyond the reach of a Darwinian process. This is Part 2 of 3.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design welcome to I d the future I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm speaking again with Dr.
0:17.7	Jonathan McClatchy, fellow and resident biologist at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:24.0	Jonathan was previously an assistant professor at Sadler College in Boston,
0:28.0	where he lectured biology for four years.
0:30.0	He holds a bachelor's degree in forensic biology, a master's degree in
0:34.6	evolutionary biology, a second master's degree in medical and molecular
0:38.6	bioscience, and a PhD in evolutionary biology. His research interests include the scientific
0:45.0	evidence of design and nature, arguments for the existence of God, and New Testament
0:49.7	scholarship. Jonathan is also founder and director of Talk About Doubts.com.
0:55.0	Jonathan, welcome back to the podcast.
0:57.0	Great to be here.
0:58.0	In a previous episode we discussed an article you wrote for evolution news.org
1:02.0	some years ago that explained why
1:04.7	sex sexual reproduction is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. The
1:10.4	origin and maintenance of sex and recombination is not easily explainable by evolutionary processes.
1:16.0	Popular science writer Carl Zimmer has written that sex is not only unnecessary,
1:21.0	but it ought to be a recipe for evolutionary disaster. And yet
1:24.6	sex rains despite the short-term disadvantages. This is a problem when it comes to
1:30.1	attempts to explain sexual reproduction in evolutionary terms. We also talked last time about the design
1:36.6	and complexity of sperm cells and how they challenge evolution and provide evidence of intelligent
1:42.1	design.
1:43.0	In this episode we're going to continue discussing this topic with a look at two more
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