Guest Host: Tim Barnett
Tim Barnett discusses the compatibility of faith and science by first defining “faith” and “science” and then exploring the three problems a naturalist has to overcome in order to explain how even a single, small protein could come about on its own by chance.
Topics
- What is faith? (05:00)
- What is science? (13:00)
- How do we explain the existence of functional proteins? (32:00)
- The chirality problem for naturalists (37:00)
- The bonding problem for naturalists (40:00)
- The sequence problem for naturalists (45:00)
Mentioned on the Show
- <a href="https://store.str.org/purchase/are-science-and-faith-compatible" rev="en_rl_none">Are Science and Faith Compatible? by Tim Barnett – DVD</a>
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-uuk4Pr2i8" rev="en_rl_none">“Kinesin protein walking on microtubule”</a> – Animation
Related Links
- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Explain-Everything-John-Lennox/dp/1784984116/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MDKHA1Y807XK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.k3ws2IS8a3dzvwkDCBt8DtgM5_GbDl4alPjUUZhNljNA-fG8ePikCR91WAziBLoX-RVTfmUK2RihzCxobGcAd434bMVwoKBeA8nr9r3bJP7iI4twcl3F3d8edBnirPCHW_KRkcUh4B9k21AkWcMbDIG8vFZv26Ei9A_tOpZobPy28aAk5aVjSvF-dXLZzriu_Q_z918Wl0k90oXcnTZQTxMZEOy0vyUCIxpjY_f2Zoc.aOavYQC_wa9tDMhIzOtneqRWWFH7cLWUwXhfe1UiRWs&dib_tag=se&keywords=john+lennox+science&qid=1715895001&sprefix=john+lennox+scien%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1" rev="en_rl_none">Can Science Explain Everything?</a> by John Lennox
- <a href="https://www.str.org/w/why-intelligent-design-isn-t-a-god-of-the-gaps-argument" rev="en_rl_none">Why Intelligent Design Isn’t a God-of-the-Gaps Argument</a> by Tim Barnett
- <a href="https://www.str.org/w/why-intelligent-design-argument-knowledge-not-ignorance" rev="en_rl_none">Why Intelligent Design Is an Argument from Knowledge, Not Ignorance</a> by Amy Hall (quoting Stephen Meyer)
- <a href="https://www.str.org/w/building-a-protein-by-chance" rev="en_rl_none">Building a Protein by Chance</a> by Tim Barnett