Evolution 2.0

Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute blogged about my interview with Joana Xavier lamenting that we did not fully endorse intelligent design. This created a perfect opportunity for us to sit down and talk with Paul in person and discuss our agreements and differences. Here we explore the gray zone between “life is a miracle” and “no miracles allowed” and we ask the question: How can a design par...

Joe Riggio’s wife, Nancy, was given a maximum of 10 years to live in her cancer diagnosis. She lived for 17 years, most of them in a very active adventurous lifestyle. They spent $2M and pursued every alternative treatment imaginable. Here Dr. Joseph Riggio accounts in detail the journey with fascinating glimpses of many treatments that did prove effective. Our conversation closes with conclu...

 Reversing Cancer needs your help. Some very specific help. . . I’ve invited Jenny Davis to talk to me about her struggles in the academic and research communities that vividly illustrate the dragon we need to slay. I know you’ll find it fascinating, but more than that, I think it’s highly likely you can help us find a solution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Karen Wong has a longtime interest in origins and evolution and we discuss what happens when you shift the definition of evolution. Old definition: Changes in gene frequencies acted upon by natural selection. New definition: Self-awareness at fractal levels of scale.  Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall Biology Transcends the Limits of Computation by Perry Marshall:  https://www.sciencedirec...

Joana Xavier is a rising star in the Origin of Life field. She is a researcher at University College London. She recently authored a paper with Stuart Kauffman on autocatalytic networks, which are nature’s version of M.C. Escher’s hand drawing a hand. We discuss the uneasy relationship between professional scientists and Intelligent Design and then go on to discuss conflicts in academia, science f...

The book Evolution 2.0 devotes two pages to the subject of cancer and it wasn't until two years after the book was published that this fact received any attention: It is not possible to understand cancer without an accurate understanding of evolution and vice versa. This has now expanded to five very exciting research projects. This interview traces the history of all of them. Hosted on Acast. See...

Two leading pioneers in the field of cognition discuss the sea change that is underway in consciousness and evolution: Michael Levin is 10 years ahead of multiple fields in biology, producing extraordinary breakthroughs in limb regeneration, cancer, and bioengineering. Donald Hoffman is a champion of a new model that says the cosmos is consciousness first and matter second, not the other way aroun...

Why is there evil and suffering? Why is Old Testament Biblegod so mean and nasty? Why doesn’t God stop the injustice? Does God even have a right to create an evolutionary universe?  Hear Perry's 18-minute talk at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Scientific Association ( www.asa3.org ), the largest organization of professional scientists who are practicing Christians. Hosted o...

I sat down with John Maddox who has a keen interest in information, computing, biology and evolution. John cuts right to the chase and hammers on the central issues that make biology a non-materialistic science...along with stories of numerous conflicts we've had along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Science describes things by quantifying them - weighing, measuring, and counting - but there is a dimension of being that goes beyond all these things. Science, despite its “objectivity”, is a feature of that subjective world. Anthony O’Hear OBE, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK, discusses his new book  Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation  and explains wh...

Little do most people know that water appears to have remarkable properties that your middle school science textbooks told you nothing about, including memory and a “fourth phase”. This appears to have deep implications for medicine and biology. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the author of Muscles and Molecules ,  Cells, Gels an...

Richard Jacobs of the Finding Genius Podcast has written a new book called  Finding Genius: Understanding Cancer: 30 Questions, 70 Geniuses, 200+ Amazing Insights  in which he interviews 70 scientists covering 30 questions about cancer research overlayed with his own personal experience of thyroid cancer. Hint: The cancer treatment ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Beware of donu...

December 21, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon declaring that cancer was going to be ended by 1976. Many media outlets are celebrating progress when, in fact, the progress isn’t all that impressive. Azra Raza, Columbia university oncologist, speaks candidly about her entry into the cancer field at age 24, the years that have passed, and incredibly promising research that has...

John Lennox is an Oxford mathematician who is the author of the new book  Cosmic Chemistry . He's written many books about the relationship between science and religion and has debated Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. His new book candidly surveys the current state of evolutionary theory. Notable chapters include reviews of work by Denis Noble and James Shapiro. In this conversation...

In September 2021, a dozen entrepreneurs gathered in Chicago and had a seminal 3-day discussion and commissioning for solving the world’s most thorny, intractable issues. Bob Regnerus was there and here we discuss what happens when entrepreneurs shift their focus from creature comforts to curing the most wicked problems of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is seldom mentioned that Charles Darwin's  Origin of Species  failed to deliver what the title promised. The mechanisms in his book only deliver microevolution but not macroevolution. Henry Heng discovered a major puzzle piece in his study of cancer and it's called "Genome Chaos". Rafe Furst, a longtime collaborator of Henry's, joins us in exploring the real mechanism of evolutio...

Doru Paul of Cornell University is one of those very rare people who has both treated over 10,000 cancer patients as their doctor and simultaneously holds a kaleidoscopic view of a huge range of research, theories, and literature. Today we talk about the many competing models and their pros and cons. And, finally, he answers the question: “What kind of medical policies would you put in place...

Today I don’t have a guest, but what I do have is a really excellent PDF submitted to me by a Perry Marshall. Perry, has been a really successful marketer, I’ve been following him for 12 years, he has been doing it for maybe, close to 20 years. He started off teaching Google AdWords, Google Pay-Per-Click, and moved on to Facebook advertising, and eventually, I started hearing from him that he was...

Psychic phenomena have been meticulously documented in hundreds of controlled studies since the 1980s. Mainstream science publications resist acknowledging this but the quality and quantity of evidence is overwhelming. Dean Radin, who has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a Ph. D. in Psychology, began discovering this decades ago and founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences. He re...

There are very very few people who can slice through the jargon of molecular biology and explain how cells talk to each other in a way that a high school student can understand. But Jon Lieff has done exactly that and his book, NAME, is a guided tour of a microscopic world that is bursting with life... and stories...This book may change the way you see everything. Jon Lieff's Website: https://jonl...

A new book by MIT Press stresses the urgency of approaching cancer from new angles. Some are completely new. Others are 100 years old and never given the attention they deserve. Bernhard and I discuss his motivations for taking on this project and how complex systems are much more subtle than we humans prefer to believe. Bernhard Strauss' Book:  Rethinking Cancer https://mitpress.mit.edu/book...

Jenny Davis is a professional athlete from Scotland who found out she had bowel cancer 9 months ago. She tells her very personal story of chemotherapy treatments, introspection, detox, and our broken medical system.    https://www.jennydavis.org/   https://meganmacedo.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Sonmez interviews Perry Marshall and they discuss why it’s impossible for computers in their current form to become conscious; how modern mathematics speaks in a new way to age-old questions about free will; the nature of consciousness; the origin of life and the very nature of reality itself. All this is based on Perry’s paper “Biology transcends the limits of computation. Hosted on Acast. S...

Rich Jacobs indulged his fascination with technology by starting a podcast called Finding Genius. He didn’t know that it would end up taking him into hundreds of specialties in science, technology, and medicine. His book titled Finding Genius: Understanding Viruses: 30 Questions, 25 Geniuses, 100 Amazing Insights is a beautifully edited compilation of Q&A from some of the best virus people in...

Eric Kuelker Ph. D. R.Psych. discusses reliable but little-known research linking cancer and heart disease to traumatic life events and stress. It turns out that psychotherapy and relationship repair reduces the chances of cancer and factors like marriage extend life more than medical treatments do. This may extend it down to the cellular level. Eric’s website is  https://psychologicalinjuryi...