Conversations Beyond Science and Religion Transcending Darwin and Creationism
b"Evolution is the leading theory of biology, if not of science.\\xa0 The problem is that few people understand how evolution actually works.\\xa0\\xa0 According to the orthodox Darwinian model, evolution works through the natural selection of favorable, random mutations.\\xa0 Those who have a hard time accepting the notion that mindless mutations can create the wonders of the living world often adopt the opposing view, creationism, which holds that, in the end, only the God of the Bible can explain the miracle of life.\\xa0 In his new book, Evolution 2.0 - Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design, this week's guest Perry Marshall applies the mind of an electrical engineer to the problem and comes to an original and startling conclusion: the source of life, the DNA molecule, is in fact a digital code; a mathematical language no different from those than run our computers.\\xa0 We know that only intelligent beings (i.e., humans) write computer codes and that errors in the transmission of the codes, also known as noise, destroys the message; compounding noise does not create a work of art, a new computer model, or for that matter, a new species. Random mutations, even if they exist, cannot be the source of order.\\xa0 An intelligence must be behind evolution.\\xa0 Listen in as Philip and Perry Marshall tackle this perennial issue in a forceful and original discussion."