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^{Michael Egnor and Andrew McDiarmid
May 13, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Michael Egnor and Andrew McDiarmid
May 13, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of random mutations in viruses and draws upon Aristotle to argue that these and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design — in this case, the designed systems — the bodies — that viruses invade.

^{Douglas Axe and Jonathan Witt
February 3, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

Protein Scientist Douglas Axe at the Dallas Area Science and Faith Conference

_{Douglas Axe and Jonathan Witt
February 3, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Jonathan Witt sits down with molecular biologist Douglas Axe at the recent Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, had his research on protein folds published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, work showing that random mutations are not up to the task of building fundamentally new protein folds from old, a finding that poses a major challenge to modern evolutionary theory. After all, if evolution can’t build something as basic as a new protein fold, how could it build whole new organs and body plans in the history of life? But Witt presents Axe with an objection: Axe couldn’t Read More ›