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
- Are Science and Faith Compatible? by Tim Barnett – DVD
- “Kinesin protein walking on microtubule” – Animation
Related Links
- Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox
- Why Intelligent Design Isn’t a God-of-the-Gaps Argument by Tim Barnett
- Why Intelligent Design Is an Argument from Knowledge, Not Ignorance by Amy Hall (quoting Stephen Meyer)
- Building a Protein by Chance by Tim Barnett