McLatchie: Intelligent Design in the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a short series with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie delving into the remarkable design and irreducible complexity of the eukaryotic cell cycle. The pair review the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, the phases involved in eukaryotic cell division, and the concept of irreducible complexity. They explore how various components of the cell division process, such as kinetochores and microtubules, are essential for successful mitosis and why these systems are more likely the product of intelligent design rather than an unguided evolutionary process. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.8	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:15.6	Today, we're kicking off a series of episodes exploring the origin and design of one of the most significant innovations
0:21.9	in the history of life, the eukaryotic cell cycle. We're going to discuss why evolutionary
0:27.5	processes cannot account for the abrupt transition between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell
0:33.6	division, and why intelligent design is a more satisfactory explanation.
0:38.6	My guest is Dr. Jonathan McClatchy, a fellow and resident biologist at the Discovery
0:43.4	Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He was previously an assistant professor at
0:48.0	Settler College in Boston, where he lectured biology for four years.
0:52.5	McClatchy holds a bachelor's degree in forensic biology, a master's degree in evolutionary
0:57.1	biology, a second master's in medical and molecular bioscience, and a PhD in evolutionary
1:03.2	biology.
1:04.5	His research interests include the scientific evidence of design and nature, arguments for
1:09.1	the existence of God, and New Testament scholarship.
1:12.8	Jonathan is founder and director of Talkabout doubts.com. Welcome, Jonathan. Great to be here. Thanks
1:18.9	so much for having me. You're welcome. Well, you've long been interested in the origins of the
1:24.5	eukaryotic cell division cycle. You've published several articles about it at
1:28.7	EvolutionNews.org, our flagship news and commentary site that covers the debate over evolution
1:34.3	and the evidence for intelligent design. In those posts, you detail the exquisite engineering
1:39.5	and design that's manifested by the cycle and its control systems.
1:47.3	You also just published a paper on the topic at biocomplexity.
1:49.3	Congratulations on getting that out.
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