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

Where did life come from in the first place? Does Darwin's theory have an answer for the origin of life?

And how does it stack up to the alternatives?

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Andrew McDermid. Today, we're bringing of life? And how does it stack up to the alternatives?

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Andrew McDermid.

Today, we're bringing you the first half of an insightful conversation between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and synthetic organic chemist Dr. James Tuer, as they unravel

important issues around the origin of life.

Dr. Tuer is a professor at Rice University, renowned for his work in nanotechnology, and his skepticism toward the current scientific models explaining the origin of life.

Dr. Meyer is author of Darwin's Doubt, the explosive origin of animal life, and the case for intelligent

design. In part one, Meyer and two are set the stage by highlighting the distinction between

Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution and the question Darwin never answered. Where

does life come from in the first place? If, and oh, what a big if, wrote Darwin in 1871, we could conceive in some warm little

pond that a protein compound was chemically formed.

For decades, many scientists assumed this first question was either trivial or easily solvable,

clinging to a primordial soup model for a long time. But what

Meyer and Tour take pains to point out here is that the origin of life is anything but a trivial issue.

In fact, it's getting more and more vexing and problematic by the year, as the target for understanding

life's origin moves miles and miles further away with each new discovery of complexity.

Meyer and Tour touch on the famous Miller-Uray experiments of the 1950s.

The discovery of DNA as digital code by Watson and Crick in 1953.

And why modern origin of life research amounts to what tour calls a big scam.

Let's turn to Peter Robinson now as he introduces his guests.

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