Behe: Bacteriophage—The New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom

Episode 1575 March 16, 2022 00:18:56
Behe: Bacteriophage—The New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom
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Behe: Bacteriophage—The New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom

Mar 16 2022 | 00:18:56

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future, Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe argues that Darwinism was built on a foundation of ignorance. Through no fault of Darwin’s, neither he nor anyone else in his day had a clue about the nature of cellular life and biological information, says Behe. Even the biologists of the Neo-Darwinian synthesis in the first half of the twentieth century were fairly clueless about the foundation of life, Behe says. When researchers did finally begin to unravel the sophisticated foundations of life, earlier notions of how evolutionary processes might have invented the great diversity of life forms on earth were exposed as causally inadequate. Behe says that in fact all the attempts to rescue the idea of mindless Read More ›

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