McLatchie: Why Cell Division Challenges Darwinism

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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One of the most incredible features of cellular life is the capability of self-replication. But can a Darwinian mechanism take the credit for the origin and design of the cell division process? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a four-part series with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on the intelligent design and irreducible complexity of eukaryotic cell division. In his recent paper on eukaryotic cell division, Dr. McLatchie quotes a Latin expression Darwin uses in his famous book On The Origin of Species to describe natural selection: natura non facit saltus: nature does not make jumps. That’s the built-in limitation of Darwinian processes: by default they are stepwise and gradual. And of course, Darwin himself acknowledged this Read More › Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:13.0	One of the most incredible features of cellular life is the capability of self-replication.
0:19.0	But can a Darwinian mechanism take the credit for the origin and design
0:22.7	of the cell division process? Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid. Well,
0:28.7	today, Dr. Jonathan McClatchy joins me as we conclude a four-part series on the intelligent design
0:34.6	and irreducible complexity of eukaryotic cell division.
0:39.1	Dr. Jonathan McClatchy is a fellow and resident biologist at the Discovery Institute's
0:43.1	Center for Science and Culture. He was previously an assistant professor at Sadler College in
0:48.1	Boston, where he lectured biology for four years. McClatchy holds a bachelor's degree in forensic
0:53.5	biology, a master's degree in evolutionary biology, a master's degree in evolutionary biology,
0:56.9	a second master's in medical and molecular bioscience, and a PhD in evolutionary biology.
1:03.4	His research interests include the scientific evidence of design and nature, arguments for
1:08.0	the existence of God, and New Testament scholarship.
1:15.6	Jonathan is also founder and director of Talkaboutdoubts.com.
1:17.3	It's good to have you back, Jonathan.
1:19.4	Great to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:24.2	You're welcome. Well, in this episode, we're capping off a series we've been doing on eukaryotic cell division. You've been studying this remarkable process for about a
1:28.9	decade now, and you just published a paper in the free open access journal Bio Complexity,
1:34.4	titled phylogenetic challenges to the evolutionary origin of the eukaryotic cell cycle.
1:39.8	You've also written a number of articles on the topic at EvolutionNews.org on the general subject
1:47.0	and zooming into the specific components.
1:50.1	Now, for those of you who may have missed the first three episodes we've done on this,
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