Darwinian Horror Story: Lamarck Back From the Grave

Episode 974 January 05, 2017 00:21:26
Darwinian Horror Story: Lamarck Back From the Grave
Intelligent Design the Future
Darwinian Horror Story: Lamarck Back From the Grave

Jan 05 2017 | 00:21:26

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Ray Bohlin interviews biologist Cornelius Hunter about the growing problem that epigenetics poses for Neo-Darwinism. Modern evolutionary theory has long insisted that genes and genetic mutations are where the evolutionary action is, and dismissed the early 19th century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for suggesting that new environmental pressures could drive heritable changes in a population within a single generation. But as Hunter explains, recent experiments reveal that this does happen and epigenetic sources in the cell are the key drivers. Worse for mainstream evolutionists, this epigenetic machinery is not easily domesticated into the Darwinian agenda of keeping teleology out of the picture.

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