Engineers Crash the Evolution Party, Rethink Biological Variation

On today’s ID the Future, physicist and engineer Brian Miller sits down with host Casey Luskin to survey exciting developments in intelligent design research that are driven by an engineering model for understanding and studying variations in species. ID researchers are pushing this work, but so too are systems biology researchers outside the intelligent design community. Tune in to hear Miller and Luskin discuss everything from fruit flies, finch beaks, and stickleback fish to mutational hotspots, phenotypic plasticity, and the gravity well model of biological adaptation.

[@MountainFisher]

I'm a bio/engineer. I started as an engineer and my employer wanted someone in my department to study biology to help develop life support systems, so I volunteered to study biology. After taking basic biology and I found the field of evolutionary theory rather mixed up and full of opinions of what sounded like imaginative stories. Then I read Stephen J. Gould and Niles Eldredge and the reasons for their Punctuated Equilibria and thought what the Hell? Whales evolving in far to short a time, now down to 7-8 million years, was 10 million.

[@jamesmaybury7452]

When they did the CGI for Lord of the rings, they didn’t design lots of different orks but one Ork model that could vary in certain traits of height, colour, facial characteristics etc. That way you got an army which looked ‘natural’. Variation was programmed in, within limits.

[@Melvyn53]

I'm at a weird place in my life. Because of everything I've learned, thanks in part to ministries like these, I find my self having to believe very little. To me the evidence is overwhelming. To the point that I feel silly even considering the other options. Thank you so much !

[@stevemeisternomic]

This answers the elephant in the room. Chaos is not convenient. Random is not convenient. But looking at reality, nature conveniently provides what creatures need consistently. Isn't that convenient?? Yet evolutionists will stand on their heads that it is a matter of luck.

[@josephfenech9037]

Excellent work to all involved! You know.. it's funny that critics of Intelligent Design will try to misrepresent it as unscientific. In fact, it is far more successful (by the scientific criterion of making predictions that are confirmed by empirical data), than any of the proposed mechanisms for Darwinian evolution has ever been!

[@nanoffyourbesyness9577]

You have all heard the question; which came first the chicken or the egg ?

[@amongthethorns8788]

Very interesting episode.

[@terriekraybill9724]

Great show...shows a side of adaptation I hadn't understood very well before. This is a show to catch regularly.

[@jamesmaybury7452]

I think it is helpful to categorise

[@cobramcjingleballs]

Seriously? I wrote a 500 page unpublished book 25 years ago debunking evolution. I updated it in early 2000s adding internet citations. Never finished because I just figured preaching to the choir. I talked about what he talks about with humans. What he calls "natural phynomigical changes," I had to make up a word for and called morphilogical changes with humans. We all know this to be true. You feed kids proper nutrients, they grow taller for instance. I even cited examples from Darwin's descent of man, such as wisdom teeth, which even at the time they knew were based on diet, not anything based along by inherentence. You eat a refined, processed diet, your jaw will not grow to be robust and you don't have enough space to fit wisdom teeth and crowds other teeth. In other words, in his day, it was a first world problem. Darwin changed it to where we adapted to our current diet, rather than eating unhealthy. We actually had to start adding nutrients to bread and foods that we stripped away. Look up the "disease" known as pellagra. Also no one got an inflamed appendix before this diet was invented, because we all got enough fiber.

[@garywilson959]

Would appreciate literature citations for the articles he alluded to pass along to others. That always strengthens an argument for my friends.

[@abraao2213]

Is there a way to watch the conference?

[@johnkv2940]

ID is the concept thats is going to be taught in Universities in the world.. Sure.

[@xyz4469]

youtube is a VIDEO platform. Why no wideo?

[@RodMartinJr]

Intention

[@kenithandry5093]

Thanks. I enjoyed the discussion.

[@russellbelding3355]

Casey: is your voice too loud compared to Brian's? Also it seems you aren't participating in the conversation but reading from a script.

[@soloman9151]

Hi Guys, I think what Charles Darwin was actually seeing on the Galapagos islands was actually adaptation of species rather than biological EVOLUTION as such or at least what is theorised as an evolutionary change from one species to another - given the exceptionally long timeframes evolutionists assign [rather arbitrarily] to be needed to evolve one form of life into another.