The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Does the math behind Darwinian evolution add up? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to enjoy the first half of a remarkable and candid discussion about the limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. The conversation, originally recorded in 2019, is hosted by Peter Robinson for Uncommon Knowledge, and features philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer, mathematician and author Dr. David Berlinski, and Yale Professor of Computer Science Dr. David Gelernter. In Part 1, the trio engage in an honest conversation about Darwin, his “brilliant and beautiful” theory, and why it’s time to move past it. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.9	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:16.1	Today, I'm inviting you to listen in to the first half of a remarkable and candid discussion
0:20.8	about the limits of Darwinian remarkable and candid discussion about the
0:21.6	limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. This is a conversation
0:27.1	recorded in 2019, hosted by Peter Robinson for his program Uncommon Knowledge, and featuring
0:34.0	philosopher of science, Dr. Stephen Meyer, mathematician and author Dr. David
0:38.5	Berlinski, and Yale Professor of Computer Science, Dr. David Gelerenter.
0:43.9	The discussion was inspired by Professor Galerinter's 2019 essay, Giving Up Darwin,
0:50.2	a fond farewell to a brilliant and beautiful theory.
1:00.2	In the essay, Gleurter points to Meyer's 2013 book Darwin's doubt for convincing him that Darwin had failed.
1:02.2	Galerentor also points to Berlinski's book, The Deniable Darwin, as essential to his change in
1:07.2	thinking.
1:08.7	And so, Robinson brings them all together for an honest conversation about Darwin,
1:13.8	his brilliant and beautiful theory, why it's time to move past it, and why intelligent design
1:18.9	might be a more adequate alternative. Here in part one, the trio evaluate Darwinian evolutionary
1:24.7	theory and explain why it fails. They begin by explaining what was beautiful about Darwin's comprehensive and well-argued synthesis.
1:33.3	But its beauty, says Meyer, is rooted in 19th century science, not what we've learned in the 20th or 21st centuries.
1:41.3	So the discussion then moves into the mathematical challenges to Darwin's theory.
1:46.3	The Cambrian explosion is discussed, as well as the probability of an unguided process
1:51.2	producing the amount of new information necessary to facilitate that great infusion of new animal
1:57.0	forms. Then they discussed the problem of combinatorial inflation, the idea that the number of combinations
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