Two Nature Articles Call for Rethink in Biology

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

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It's not just intelligent design theorists who are calling for a major rethink of biology and origin-of-life research. On this ID The Future, Casey Luskin speaks to host Andrew McDiarmid about two recent articles in the prestigious journal Nature that review major problems with current theories on the origin of life and the source of genetic complexity in living things. Dig deeper with more resources at idthefuture.com.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	welcome to I d the. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm
0:16.5	welcoming Dr. Casey Loskin to the show to discuss two recent articles in the
0:20.9	journal Nature and their implications for the scientific debate over evolution
0:25.2	and intelligent design.
0:27.2	Dr Luskin is a scientist and attorney with graduate degrees and science and law, giving
0:31.7	him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over
0:36.0	evolution.
0:37.4	He holds a PhD in geology from the University of Johannesburg where he specialized in paleomagnetism and the early plate tectonic history of
0:45.8	South Africa. Casey serves as Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at the
0:51.4	Discovery Institute.
0:53.2	Casey, welcome.
0:54.4	Great to be with you, Andrew.
0:55.5	Thanks so much for having me.
0:57.0	Absolutely.
0:58.0	So Casey, you noticed two articles in the prestigious science journal Nature recently, both of which are encouraging from an ID perspective.
1:06.0	Let's start with a comment written by biochemist Nick Lane and bioengineer Joanna Xavier, titled To the origin of life treat findings as
1:16.4	pieces of a bigger puzzle. Now David Coppage covered this for evolution news
1:20.9	dot org our flagship news and commentary website, he called it a devastating
1:25.9	critique of origin of life research. Do you agree with his assessment?
1:30.3	Well, David Koppish wrote a great article about this paper in nature.
1:34.3	I don't know if I'd call it a devastating critique of origin of life research, but I would call
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