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The Eric Metaxas Show

Stephen Iacoboni (continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Eric continues his conversation with Stephen Iacoboni the author of Telos: The Scientific Basis for a life of Purpose

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0:00.0

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals.

0:04.1

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0:06.6

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0:28.8

Folks, welcome back.

0:29.9

I'm talking to the author of a book called Telos, T-E-L-O-S, the scientific basis for

0:35.3

Life of Purpose, Stephen Yakoboni, the oncologist, scientist who wrote that book.

0:42.8

You were just talking before the break about the miracle, I don't know how else people can view it, of you say a three-inch-long salmon fry.

0:56.6

In other words, we're talking about a newborn salmon that travels how far? 8,000 miles. 8,000 miles in the ocean. 8,000 miles seems somehow to

1:08.1

know where to go. It's mind bending. They do know where to go. It's mind-bending.

1:11.5

They do know where to go.

1:12.8

And the book we were talking about,

1:14.7

it's called Animal Algorithms.

1:16.6

Somebody, Eric Castle, is that it?

1:19.0

From the Discovery Institute.

1:21.5

Astonishing.

1:22.3

But it gets to your point.

1:24.4

Science says, oh, that's just instinct.

1:27.1

That's just, and you think, well, what's instinct?

1:29.9

What do you mean? It has a brain the size of a grain of sand, and how does it navigate? A human

1:36.7

being would have trouble pulling this off, and our brain is vast. So, logically, you'd say, it seems to have been designed to do this. It seems to have

1:48.8

been designed by someone for this purpose. Exactly. So the first chapter, there's several

1:55.9

examples like that. Just to get the reader comfortable with the fact that I'm going to talk about

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