Challenges in Achieving Proteins with Left-Handed Amino Acids

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:

1. What is faith? (05:00)
2. What is science? (13:00)
3. How do we explain the existence of functional proteins? (32:00)
4. The chirality problem for naturalists (37:00)
5. The bonding problem for naturalists (40:00)
6. 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