On a new episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Eric Anderson, co-author of the new Discovery Institute Press bookEvolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell.Today they talk about Andersons second of two chapters in the book, in which he explores the challenges of building a self-replicating 3-D printer, and the light this sheds on the origin-of-life communitys search for their Holy Grail, a self-reproducing molecule that could have kickstarted the evolutionary process on the early Earth. Download the podcast or listen to it here.<\/p>\n
In their conversation, Anderson suggests that there are engineering principles involved in the origin of life that may mean that a naturalistic origin is less like winning a long-odds lottery, and more like the chances of an inventor successfully building a perpetual motion machine. That is, it isnt just a tough probability problem; there are reasons for concluding that its impossible in principle. Also, Anderson notes, the early Earth wasnt the kinder, gentler place for simple self-replicators that Darwin or Dawkins has imagined.<\/p>\n
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