The Irreducible Complexity Found in Bacterial Cell Division

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back, this time to discuss with host Andrew McDiarmid the engineering elegance and irreducible complexity of the process of bacterial cell division. You may wonder why we should care about something so minuscule as bacterial cells. After all, something so insignificant and unseen has little bearing on our daily lives. But if we've learned anything in the biological revolution of the 20th century, it's that consequential things often come in very small packages. And if even the simplest forms of life exhibit stunning complexity and engineering prowess, all the more do we! And that complexity and design demands an adequate explanation. Here, McLatchie describes the remarkable process of cell wall breakage and re-synthesis that allows cell division to take place and explains why it's a big problem for Darwinian evolution. Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. The Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott.
0:15.0	Dr. Jonathan McClatchy is back with me today to discuss the engineering
0:20.0	elegance and irreducible complexity of the process of bacterial cell division.
0:26.5	Dr McClatchi is a fellow and resident biologist at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science
0:31.4	and Culture. He was previously an assistant professor at
0:34.7	Sadler College in Boston, where he lectured biology for four years. McClatchy holds a
0:40.3	bachelor's degree in forensic biology, a master's degree in evolutionary biology,
0:45.2	a second master's degree in medical and molecular bioscience, and a PhD in evolutionary biology.
0:52.0	His research interests have included the scientific evidence of design and nature, arguments for the existence of God, and New Testament scholarship.
1:00.0	He's also founder and director of Talk About Doubts.com.
1:05.0	Jonathan, welcome.
1:07.0	Great to be here. Thanks so much for having me back.
1:10.0	Now, you're a resident biologist and a fellow Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
1:15.6	and as such one of your duties is reporting regularly at evolution news.org on the evidence for
1:21.7	intelligent design. And truly it's been a pleasure on the Evidence for Intelligent Design.
1:23.7	And truly has been a pleasure to host you regularly here on the podcast so that we can
1:28.0	unpack some of your articles.
1:29.7	It's been a lot of fun.
1:31.1	We've done episodes on the design and irreducible complexity of the bacterial
1:34.6	flagellum. We did a three-part series on sexual reproduction and how much of a headache
1:39.7	it is to explain through evolutionary processes. We've also discussed the intelligent design of muscles and our system of hearing.
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