Tag: Eric Anderson

Graceful girl walking with horse and holding reins in hand. Romantic equine and girls silhouette on horse hiking with red rising sun on horizon

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Ann Gauger

Date
December 5, 2022

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Ann Gauger, biology, Catholic church, Catholic faith, Christianity, Darwinism, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Intelligent Design, MIT, Molecular Machines, Science and faith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Sound of Music, the University of Washington, vocation, zoology}

Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

_{Ann Gauger

December 5, 2022

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On this ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with biologist and intelligent design proponent Ann Gauger to hear her story of how she got into the intelligent design movement and how the evidence for design has shaped her life. It begins with a lonely girl on a Kansas military base who at one point loses her Christian faith but also discovers the wonders of nature, and friendship, when she is given a horse and begins taking it for long rides in the countryside. Her intellectual journey takes her to MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and eventually into the Catholic church, where she explores becoming a nun until a conversation with echoes from the Read More ›

Ribosome translating mRNA into a polypeptide chain

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Paul Nelson

Date
November 16, 2022

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AF2, AlphaFold, AlphaFold 2, amino acid sequence space, amino acids, chaperone complex, David Berlinski, Deep Mind, Eric Anderson, Evolution, genetic information, Google’s DeepMind, Horace Freeland Judson, Horace Judson, intrinsically disordered proteins, Jacques Monod, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, orphan proteins, Paul Nelson, phylogenetics, protein folding, protein folding problem, ribosome, Shakespeare, taxonomically restricted genes, The Eighth Day of Creation, x-ray crystallography}

Orphan Proteins Spell Trouble for AlphaFold 2

_{Paul Nelson

November 16, 2022

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On this ID the Future, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson further explores AlphaFold 2, a cutting edge computer program from Google’s DeepMind designed to rapidly suss out important secrets in the realm of proteins, indispensable molecular biological workhorses that come in thousands of different shapes and sizes. Nelson enthuses about AlphaFold 2 but also explains why he is convinced that AlphaFold’s creators have hit a series of immovable obstacles. The watchword here—orphans. Tune in to learn what these mischievous orphan proteins are about, and what they suggest for AlphaFold, evolution, and intelligent design.

Chain of amino acid or bio molecules called protein - 3d illustration

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Paul Nelson

Date
November 14, 2022

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Alphabet, AlphaFold, AlphaFold 2, amino acids, Artificial Intelligence, central dogma, codons, cognates, DeepMind, DNA, DNA R Us, Eric Anderson, eukaryotes, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Google, homo sapiens proteome, human genome project, Intelligent Design, introns, language evolution, large subunit of ribosome, Machine learning, messenger RNA, natural language, Paul Nelson, peptide bonds, prokaryotes, protein 3D shape, protein folding, protein folding problem, proteome, ribosome, Romance languages, Watson and Crick}

Powerful Protein Folding Algorithm AlphaFold Foiled by Singletons

_{Paul Nelson

November 14, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence program in the news for its impressive breakthroughs at predicting a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. Philosopher of Biology Paul Nelson walks listeners through the importance of this “amazing breakthrough,” as he describes it in a recent Evolution News article; but don’t uncork the champagne bottles just yet. The reason, according to Nelson, is that while proteins, protein sequences, and protein folding promise to reveal much that is still mysterious in molecular biology, we now know that biological information involves far more than just an organism’s proteome—that is, far more than the full suite of proteins expressed by an organism. Nelson uses analogies to manmade machines and cognates Read More ›

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Rob Stadler

Date
September 12, 2022

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abiogenesis, ATP Synthase, cellular repair, Chernobyl, Craig Venter, early Earth, energy harnessing, Eric Anderson, fermenter, fungus, God of the gaps argument, homeostasis, Long Story Short, naturalism of the gaps, obligate fermenter, origin of life, positive argument to design, proton gradient, radiation, replication, Rob Stadler, simplest viable life, Stairway to Life}

An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing

_{Rob Stadler

September 12, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, the latest video in the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. It would have had no source of glucose and Read More ›

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Jonathan Wells

Date
January 5, 2022

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abiogenesis, amino acids, borosilicate glass reactor vessel, catalyst, Charles Darwin, chemical evolution, early atmosphere, earth, Eric Anderson, geochemistry, George Gaylord Simpson, glass, Harold Urey, Icons of Evolution, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Philip Abelson, Proteins, reducing atmosphere, silica, silicate rock, Stanley Miller, Teflon, the mystery of life’s origin, volcanic outgassing, warm little pond}

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old

_{Jonathan Wells

January 5, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future, biologist Jonathan Wells and host Eric Anderson discuss a recently discovered problem with the famous Miller-Urey experiment, long ballyhooed in biology textbooks as dramatic experimental evidence for the naturalistic origin of life. The newly uncovered problem involves the glassware used in the experiment. It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. While biology textbooks often present the 1952 experiment by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey as a key icon of evolution, even those origin-of-life researchers who hope to one day to discover a credible naturalistic scenario for the origin of the first living cell concede that the experiment Read More ›

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Michael Behe

Date
November 24, 2021

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Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, Eric Anderson, Evolution, genetic mutation, GPATCH1, helicase DHX35, intron-poor yeast, Jade Sales-Lee, Lehigh University, malaria, malaria tests, Michael Behe, Nature Microbiology, Plasmodium falciparum, S. cerevisiae, Sindew M. Feleke, spliceosomal proteins, spliceosome, The Edge of Evolution, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Behe’s Darwin Devolves Thesis

_{Michael Behe

November 24, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future Darwin Devolves author and biologist Michael Behe discusses two recent technical papers that the news media billed as dramatic evidence for evolution. As Behe explains in his conversation with host Eric Anderson, a careful look at the papers themselves shows that both cases involve devolution. That is, the biological forms in question did not evolve novel structures and information; instead they threw away things to achieve a niche advantage. In the first study, in the journal Nature Microbiology, the researchers found that in Africa, where “most rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for falciparum malaria recognize histidine-rich protein 2 antigen,” the malaria parasite has repeatedly evolved a way to sometimes elude detection, giving it a selective advantage, Read More ›

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Rob Stadler

Date
October 25, 2021

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abiogenesis, amino acids, Arkansas Tech University, Biological Information, chemical evolution, degradation, entropy, Eric Anderson, homeostasis, homochirality, interfering cross-reactions, James Tour, Jim Tour, John Narcum, John Southerland, Long Story Short, Miller-Urey experiment, Murchison meteorite, origin of life, primordial soup, propaganda, relay synthesis, ribose, RNA, Rob Stadler, self-replication, simple life, Stairway to Life, synthetic organic chemistry, The Basic Building Blocks and the Origin of Life, toxic molecules, YouTube}

New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype

_{Rob Stadler

October 25, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights a new origin-of-life video showing that researchers aren’t anywhere close to creating life from non-life, despite the fact most Americans seem to believe otherwise. In the episode, host Eric Anderson interviews Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler, who helped create the new Long Story Short animated video. Stadler and Anderson explore how origin-of-life papers and popular media reports have misled the public, evidenced by a survey underscored by Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour. Then they discuss several daunting origin-of-life hurdles beyond the synthesis of key chemical building blocks. These are hurdles significant enough that each alone may doom the idea of life having once emerged from non-life spontaneously. Indeed, it is now a Read More ›

Abstract mechanism with cogwheels on green meadow

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Steve Laufmann

Date
September 22, 2021

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bacterial flagellum, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design of complex systems, engineering, engineering principles, Engineers, enterprise architecture, Eric Anderson, Intelligent Design, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, Waldean Schulz}

The Role of Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

_{Steve Laufmann

September 22, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights systems biology and the role engineers can play in some leading-edge biology. According to guest Steve Laufmann, systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems and, using that working assumption, seeks to better understand the system. Laufmann says this provides an opening for engineers to contribute, since they have a deep understanding of what it takes to make a complex system work, and what’s required to change one core aspect of an engineered system so that it continues to work with all of the other crucial parts of the system. Many biologists aren’t trained in this, Laufmann says, and most engineers aren’t Read More ›

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Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 8, 2021

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abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Biological Information, Brian Green, Charles Carter, Charles Darwin, chemical evolution, chemical soup, Cornelius Hunter, Epicureans, Eric Anderson, Evolution, first life, J.B.S. Haldane, Joseph Hooker, Natural Selection, Occam’s Razor, origin of life, origin-of-life research, prebiotic conditions, principle of parsimony, RNA world, RNA World hypothesis, RNA-DNA World, Robert Hook, self-replicating molecule, self-replication, simplest organism, synthetic organic chemistry, Urey-Miller experiment, warm little pond}

RNA World in a World of Hurt

_{Cornelius Hunter

February 8, 2021

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On this ID the Future, biophysicist Cornelius Hunter and host Eric Anderson discuss the RNA World hypothesis, an explanation for how the first self-reproducing organism might have arisen via mindless chemical processes. Hunter and Anderson have each written on the topic, and together they unpack some of the many and growing problems with this RNA-first explanation for the origin of life. They also spotlight some recent admissions in mainstream scientific publications that it’s time to move on from the cherished but embattled RNA World. The conversation pivots off of a recent essay by Hunter at Evolution News, “RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections.” For more on the challenges of creating the first self-reproducing biological entity, see Eric Anderson’s Chapter 3 Read More ›

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Michael Newton Keas

Date
June 13, 2018

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__edited, Biological Information, Eric Anderson, information theory, Intelligent Design, Mike Keas}

Answering Our ID Critics: Distinguish Information In from Information About

_{Michael Newton Keas

June 13, 2018

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In this episode of ID the Future, Mike Keas interviews attorney and engineer Eric Anderson about the first of two mistakes ID antagonists often make regarding information in nature. There is information to be gained about natural phenomena, like Saturn’s rings for example, but is there information actually in Saturn’s rings, or is that information produced by intelligent agents studying Saturn’s rings? The answer to that question should be clear — and it makes a huge difference in how we understand information and intelligence.