Brian Miller: The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology

Episode 1634 August 08, 2022 00:41:38
Brian Miller: The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology
Intelligent Design the Future
Brian Miller: The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology

Aug 08 2022 | 00:41:38

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners physicist and engineer Brian Miller’s recent lecture at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, “The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology.” Miller rebuts several popular arguments for evolution based on claims of poor design in living systems, everything from the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye to whales, wrists, ankles, and “junk DNA.” But the main emphasis of this discussion is the exciting sea change in biology in which numerous breakthroughs are occurring by scientists who are treating living systems and subsystems as if they are optimally engineered systems. Some in this movement reject intelligent design for ideological reasons. Others embrace it. But all systems biologists treat these systems as if they are masterfully engineered Read More ›

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