ID Pioneer Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 2

Episode 1484 July 28, 2021 00:39:33
ID Pioneer Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 2
Intelligent Design the Future
ID Pioneer Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 2

Jul 28 2021 | 00:39:33

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Show Notes

In today’s ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 2 of a three-part series, Behe offers an illustration from language and Madden presses him, noting that meaning detection in language is not parts to whole. A lively exchange ensues and then Behe turns the discussion back to his primary focus, detecting design in molecular biological machines by recognizing the purposeful arrangement of parts. From there the conversation turns to everything from epigenetics, systems biology, and autopoiesis to co-option, mousetraps, tie clips, biologist Kenneth Miller, and the philosophers Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. For Behe’s newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher and podcaster Pat Flynn.

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