When chemist Marcos Eberlin was in Seattle recently, he spoke one evening at the Woodland Park Zoo and broached an uncomfortable subject: diarrhea. It was a first as far as I’m aware at an intelligent design event.
Watch Dr. Eberlin discuss more about intelligent design in these other short videos: [ Ссылка ]
In his new book, Foresight, Dr. Eberlin develops a case for ID from the observation that so much in life and in nature appears to have been designed with a view to solving future problems ahead of time. Only minds can do that. Take the problem of eating adventurously and possibly consuming some bad food. The solution is diarrhea — the body’s “power wash” cycle, as he puts it. “It’s really nice,” he adds. “Diarrhea is a blessing.” You’ve probably never thought of it that way before.
But the solution itself comes with a problem, the discomfort aside: it depletes the intestines of necessary microorganisms. The solution to that is the appendix, the supposedly useless, vestigial organ according to Darwinists, which in fact serves as a helpful reservoir of microorganisms.
What about appendicitis? What’s the design purpose of that? As Eberlin explains, the ailment is largely a problem of the First World, where our hygiene habits are such that eating bad food is rare. Following from this, at the Woodland Park event, Dr. Eberlin offered some playful advice for First World residents (which, however, as John West was careful to point in the Q&A, should not be taken as a medical recommendation from Discovery Institute!).
Marcos Eberlin is a delightful personality even when talking about stomach complaints. Stay healthy, whatever you do, and enjoy!
Learn more about Dr. Eberlin's new book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, by going here: [ Ссылка ]
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