Muscle is a perfect system to look at that because you have a protein called myacin,

which we'll speak about in just a little bit.

And myacin has to be assembled in vast arrays of probably quadrillions.

I mean, just huge numbers.

They all have to be lined up and they all have to be able to generate the force so that

even though each one has such a teeny tiny amount of force, when all added together,

you can get something meaningful that can do movement at the level of the body.

ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

So every movement you make, walking across a room, lifting a cup of coffee,

even blinking your eyes, depends on trillions of microscopic molecular machines,

working in remarkable coordination.

Welcome to Add to the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.

Well, today we're going to explore the hidden machinery of muscle with Dr. Robert Walter,

Professor of Biology and Long-Term researcher and lecturer on Intelligent Design.

In case you don't know about him, Dr. Walter is currently the chair and professor of biology at Bell Haven University in Jackson, Mississippi, where he's been

teaching for over 30 years. He has a PhD in anatomy from Ohio State University, where he focused

on the anatomy of the brain. He teaches courses on human biology and is a leader

in the division of history and philosophy of sciences at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences,

where he was recently awarded the designation Fellow of the Academy. He is the co-author with four

others of the book Evolution and Intelligent Design in a nutshell. He has been doing

research and has given presentations on intelligent design, often at secular conferences,

for many years. Well, Robert, welcome to Idea the Future. It's good to be here, Andrew.

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