The Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

Episode 1712 February 17, 2023 00:10:29
The Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism
Intelligent Design the Future
The Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

Feb 17 2023 | 00:10:29

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Show Notes

On this ID the Future from the vault, Andrew McDiarmid reads from Marcos Eberlin’s fascinating book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. In this excerpt, the distinguished Brazilian scientist highlights the challenge the Venus flytrap poses for evolutionary theory. Dr. Eberlin describes the problem: The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, has no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also has an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. But the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection selects for current function, not potential future function. Unlike a designing intelligence, natural selection can’t look into the future and plan in that way. So for natural selection to have selected these twin systems, they would somehow have had to evolve together. Read More ›

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