Marcos Nogueira Eberlin

Member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Mackenzie University

A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Marcos Eberlin received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and served as a postdoc at Purdue University. Back at UNICAMP, he founded and coordinated for 25 years the ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry (MS) Laboratory, making it an internationally recognized research center, one of the best-equipped and innovative MS laboratories worldwide.

Eberlin has published nearly 1,000 scientific articles and is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the title of Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2005) from Brazil’s President, the Zeferino Vaz Award (2002) for excellence in teaching and research. He is the founder and current president of the Brazilian Society for Mass Spectrometry (BrMASS) — one of the largest MS societies. Eberlin is also President of the Brazilian Society for Intelligent Design (TDI Brasil) and the Director of the Discovery-Mackenzie Research Center for Science, Faith and Society at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. Previous to writing Foresight, he published the bestselling book Fomos Planejados, the first book in Portuguese presenting the scientific evidence for intelligent design in nature.

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Science and Faith in Dialogue

Guillermo Gonzalez, Brian Miller, Stephen C. Meyer, Michael Newton Keas, Casey Luskin, James Tour and Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
December 20, 2022
The book argues that modern science provides undeniable evidence and a scientific basis for these classical arguments to infer a rationally justifiable endorsement of theism as being concordant with reason and science — nature is seen as operating orderly on comprehensible, rational, consistent laws, in line with the conviction that God is Creator.

Foresight in Chemistry and Life

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
October 27, 2021
What can the chemistry of life teach us about the purposeful design of the universe? Join renowned chemistry professor Dr. Marcos Eberlin as he explores many ingenious features of nature that point beyond blind evolution to the necessity of a creative mind behind the …

Message from the Molecules – They Say “Intelligent Design”

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
May 6, 2020
Biology, cosmology, physics, mathematics, computer engineering, chemistry… You could have an interesting argument among proponents of intelligent design about which field of science will ultimately clinch the argument for ID. Famed chemist Marcos Eberlin claims the honor will go to chemistry. Chauvinism, you say? Perhaps. You could take that up with the three Nobel laureates who endorsed his recent book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. Learn more about Foresight. “The molecules speak for themselves,” says Dr. Eberlin here. “The molecules will speak louder and louder and louder and finally we will have to surrender to the message that the molecules are sending to us. They say clearly, ‘Intelligent design is the source of life.’” …

The Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

Marcos Eberlin
August 26, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Scotsman Andrew McDiarmid reads from Marcos Eberlin’s recent book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. In this excerpt, the distinguished Brazilian scientist highlights the challenge the Venus flytrap poses for evolutionary theory. Dr. Eberlin, the former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Association, describes the problem: The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. Did they really both evolve together? And how when there would be no functional advantage along much of the evolutionary pathway to the sophisticated finished system? Finally, how did this “evolutionary miracle” also happen in …

Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem

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August 14, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, internationally distinguished scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the new book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, talks about evolution’s “water gate” problem. There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing answer for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out. There’s also a chicken-egg problem involving proteins and molecular chaperones. That and more, Eberlin argues, add up to the conclusion that life required …

Chemist Marcos Eberlin on a Crisis for Chemical Evolution

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August 12, 2019
Distinguished Brazilian organic chemist Marcos Eberlin talks about chemical evolution and the origin of life, pivoting off of comments by Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour in Science Uprising Episode 5, and off of Eberlin’s own Nobel laureate-endorsed book.

Brazilian Scientist Marcos Eberlin: Diarrhea by Design, Pt. 2

Marcos Eberlin
July 10, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of close to 1,000 scientific articles and the Nobel laureate-endorsed Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. Their topic again is the body’s surprisingly sophisticated, all-or-nothing system for flushing bad bacteria from our guts. It took foresight to solve all the problems involved; it took foresight even to make protein chemistry work in the first place. “Let’s listen to the data,” says Eberlin. “Let’s surrender to the evidence” — which points to intelligent …

Foresight Author Marcos Eberlin: Diarrhea by Design

Marcos Eberlin
July 8, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the Nobel laureate-endorsed Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, about — of all things — diarrhea, the body’s surprisingly helpful (and sophisticated) system for flushing out that bad stuff.

Marcos Eberlin: The Intelligent Design of Water Makes it a Supernatural Liquid

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
June 25, 2019
Chemist Marcos Eberlin on Water as a “Supernatural” Liquid Be sure to subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryScienceNews A humble glass of water out of the kitchen faucet — nothing special there, right? Nothing like, oh, a glass of fine wine, to be admired and savored. Think again! Read chemist Marcos Eberlin’s book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, and you will never look at a glass of H2O the same way again. Dr. Eberlin was in Seattle recently and I asked him what’s so special. Water, he explains here, is nothing less than a “supernatural” liquid: With 74 distinctive chemical properties, it does things we take for granted but that, were they tuned a little differently, life on Earth would be …

Marcos Eberlin: Earth as the “Presidential Suite” of the Universe

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
June 21, 2019
In his book Unbelievable, science historian Michael Keas writes about the myth of the “Copernican demotion,” supposedly inflicted on our idea of the Earth’s special place in the universe. Keas shows that Copernicus offered, instead, a promotion. Famed chemist Marcos Eberlin takes this a step further: Dr. Eberlin was in Seattle recently to celebrate the launch of his new book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. We talked in Discovery Institute’s offices and he explained his case for recognizing our planet as occupying the “Presidential Suite of the universe.” “We can detect more than a thousand problems that had to be solved in advance for life to be able to develop on Earth,” he told me, illustrating the “foresight” revealed by …

Marcos Eberlin On Debating Intelligent Design With Evolutionists

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June 11, 2019
Intelligent design proponents and evolutionists often debate the finer points of the science of intelligent design and evolution. Do you ever wonder what Darwin proponents would say if they ventured to address arguments for intelligent design in detail? Do they ever? I asked Brazilian chemist Marcos Eberlin to comment based on his own experiences. He was in Seattle to speak about his new book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. Of course, sometimes evolutionists do debate about specifics. But witness what happened when they came after Michael Behe on polar bear genes and other matters in his book Darwin Devolves. Find the archives of that debate here, including Behe’s exchanges with Richard Lenski, Nathan Lents, and others. As Eberlin observes, …

Marcos Eberlin: But Is Intelligent Design “Science”?

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
June 6, 2019
Is Intelligent Design science? That’s the question for biochemist Marcos Eberlin who writes about human origins and evolution in his book “Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose” (DI Press 2019). To learn more visit the book site at https://www.discovery.org/b/foresight/. When famed Brazilian chemist Marcos Eberlin visited with Discovery Institute staff here in Seattle, I posed a challenge to him that we hear all the time. The observation and arguments offered as pointing to intelligent design may be very interesting. But is the design thesis science? A mind is not a natural substance or a natural process. And we’re told that science deals strictly, by definition, with the natural world alone. That should seem to rule out a designing …

Marcos Eberlin: For Water, Lightning and a Living Planet, Just Add Foresight

Marcos Eberlin
May 20, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Jonathan Wells speaks again with distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin about Eberlin’s new book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. A world leader in the field of mass spectrometry, Eberlin explains how chemistry reveals foresight in the design of molecules and chemical systems. To the untrained eye water looks like a simple clear liquid. To the chemist it has 74 unique, even “weird” properties essential for life. And lightning seems purely destructive, but it, too, is essential for life. As Eberlin argues, both of these suggest foresight in the design of life — foresight to solve problems necessary to make life on earth …

How Marcos Eberlin Discovered Intelligent Design

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
May 10, 2019
World-class chemist Marcos Eberlin was in Seattle this week and I had the opportunity to pose some questions to him. His new book is Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. First, I asked how he initially learned of the theory of ID: Learn more about Dr. Eberlin ‘s book “Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose” where he advances the scientific case for intelligent design: https://discoveryinstitutepress.com/b… Today, Dr. Eberlin is probably the leading proponent of intelligent design in Brazil. But he’s hardly the only one, with a branch of Discovery Institute in São Paulo now going strong at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. His journey in our direction started in 2008 when he was teaching at …

Distinguished Chemist Marcos Eberlin Explains How Life’s Problem-Solving Engineering Requires Foresight

Marcos Eberlin
May 6, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells speaks with distinguished Brazilian chemist Marcos Eberlin about Eberlin’s new book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. Eberlin is a world leader in the field of mass spectrometry, and the book is endorsed by three Nobel laureates. In this first of two conversations, Eberlin speaks to the scientist’s duty to follow the evidence where it leads, and explains how the incredible problem-solving engineering involved in just one structure, the cell membrane, must lead one to the conclusion that a mind planned it in …