Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?
On this episode of ID The Future, host Casey Luskin sits down with Dr. Brian Miller to begin a thought-provoking conversation about design in biology. Dr. Miller is Research Coordinator at the Center for Science & Culture at Discovery Institute. He contributes a chapter to the recently published book Science and Faith in Dialogue titled “Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better Than Evolutionary Theory.” Miller describes several lines of evidence in biology that collectively suggest that teleology, or purpose, is central to life. He also reports that optimality is becoming a powerful tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions, tools, models, and language to study the natural world. This is Part 1 of an interview.