Jonathan Bartlett on the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, host and evolutionary biologist Jonathan McLatchie sits down with software R&D engineer Jonathan Bartlett to discuss Bartlett’s work on the question of when genetic mutations are random versus directed. Bartlett explains that the issue isn’t an all-or-nothing affair. Often a given biological system dramatically limits the search space of possible mutations in useful ways, and then within that much more limited set of possible mutations, random processes are at play. He gives the example of antibody mutations. He argues that many biological systems show considerable evidence of having been beneficially designed for directed mutations. Why, then, are many mutations deleterious? He also has an answer for that. Tune in to learn more. Bartlett’s two peer-reviewed Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Jonathan McClatchy and I'm joined today by a special guest Jonathan Bartlett.
0:18.0	Jonathan Bartlett is a software developer, educator, and academic researcher. He has published books and papers in computer science,
0:24.6	mathematics, theoretical biology, and philosophy of science. He's the author of many books including
0:29.5	calculus from the ground up, electronics for beginners, and learned a program with assembly language.
0:34.8	He is a fellow of the Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence and writes for Mind Matters
0:40.6	AI.
0:41.6	Welcome to the program, Jonathan.
0:43.0	Well, thanks a lot for having me on.
0:45.0	We can each refer to each other as Jonathan and we can confuse the audience the whole time.
0:49.0	Absolutely.
0:51.0	So why don't we begin for those listeners who perhaps aren't familiar with you?
0:55.2	Tell us a little bit about your background.
0:57.2	Yeah, so in general I tend to be just kind of a curious guy.
1:00.7	I'm interested in a lot of different subjects and I write about them.
1:04.4	That's actually one of the ways that I kind of process my thoughts is by writing.
1:08.0	And so kind of if you dig back into my past, my first book was actually on assembly language programming and I wrote it because I thought that not enough people were coming out of computer science programs really knowing how the computer works.
1:22.0	And if you know anything about computers with
1:23.9	assembly language, that's really the language of the computer itself. And so even if you
1:28.7	don't program in assembly language regularly, knowing assembly language helps you think like a computer. language
1:33.0	helps you think like a computer.
1:35.0	And so that's kind of why I wrote the book is to help people really think like a computer.
1:38.0	And it took off and actually it was required reading at Princeton for a while,
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