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

Episode 1320 May 13, 2020 00:13:21
Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design
Intelligent Design the Future
Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

May 13 2020 | 00:13:21

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Show Notes

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.

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