Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Are we to credit an unguided evolutionary process for the gift of sleeping and waking? Or are these intricate systems further evidence of design? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin on the intelligent design of sleep. In Part 2, the pair dig deeper into the purpose of sleep and why it’s so essential to living organisms. They also look at why it’s unlikely that a gradual Darwinian process can be credited for the origin of sleeping and waking, and why intelligent design is a better explanation. This is Part 2 of a two-part discussion. Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.1	Welcome to I d the. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm
0:16.6	continuing my discussion with Dr Eric Hadeen, but his recent articles at
0:20.9	Evolution News on the intelligent design of sleep.
0:24.0	Dr. Hadeen is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy
0:28.0	at Ball State University in Indiana. He is author of the recent book
0:32.4	Cancelled Science, what some atheists don't want you to see.
0:37.0	He speaks regularly at universities around the country and writes on the evidence for
0:40.9	intelligent design at evolution news.org.
0:44.0	Dr. Edine, welcome back.
0:46.0	Thank you very much Andrew.
0:48.0	Great to be here with you again.
0:49.0	Looking forward to continue in our discussion about sleep.
0:53.1	Yeah, it's a fascinating topic.
0:55.1	In the first half of this conversation,
0:56.7	we talked about the first of your two articles on sleep.
0:59.8	We considered why we even sleep in the first place. We looked at why an evolutionary mindset is an obstacle
1:05.7	to our scientific understanding of sleep. And we discussed the various complicated processes
1:11.1	involved in falling asleep and waking up and how our sleep wake cycles exhibit
1:16.6	a type of complex engineering design pattern known as the push-pull principle. Well today we're going to dive a little deeper into the science of sleep.
1:25.6	We'll review some of the hypotheses that researchers offer for the function of sleep.
1:30.4	And we'll discuss why sleep is so essential to humans and other living things.
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