Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Atheist Richard Dawkins

Episode 1701 January 23, 2023 00:55:51
Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Atheist Richard Dawkins
Intelligent Design the Future
Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Atheist Richard Dawkins

Jan 23 2023 | 00:55:51

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future puts atheist Richard Dawkins’s book Outgrowing God under the microscope and reveals multiple ways his argument smashes up against contrary scientific evidence. Walking us through the critique are author and Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer and her co-host, Amy Davison. Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. But Ferrer explains why the phenomenon of bird murmuration doesn’t even begin to approach what we find when sophisticated engineering order emerges in the growth of embryos. Ferrer also considers the challenges of re-engineering sperm thermoregulation to move from how it works in marine life to how it works in land animals. Read More ›

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