Evolution 2.0

Mark Chenoweth is a theologian with a particular interest in St. Maximus the Confessor (700 AD) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (400 AD) who wrote about life on earth as a goal-directed process as opposed to a series of divine miracles. Their ideas were very much in line with the ancient Greeks who have been greatly under-estimated by modern thinkers. Here we hear Mark's story of being drawn into evolutionary science and what implications this has for modern people. Mark's paper is called "A Maximian Framework for Understanding Evolution".LINK: https://www.academia.edu/45035064/A_Maximian_Framework_for_Understanding_Evolution?email_work_card=view-paperMark's BioMark Chenoweth received his M.Div. and Th.M. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is an adjunct professor at St. John’s University in New York. His articles have been published in scholarly journals such as St. Vladimir’s Quarterly, and he is hoping to soon begin a dissertation on the theology of St. Maximus the Confessor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How does a psychology prof find herself writing a book on cancer evolution?And what does this have to do with the Zombie Apocalypse? Today’sconversation is with Dr. Athena Aktipis from Arizona State University, whohosts the Zombified podcast. We explore the not-so-obvious byproducts thatemerge you change the rules of cooperation and convention-defyingbreakthroughs in cancer treatment.WEBSITE LINKS:Athena’s personal website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org/Zombified podcast: www.Zombified.orgThe Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancerhttps://amzn.to/3caIZzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Devis is a former pastor who experienced a faith deconversion a couple of years ago similar to that of my brother, Bryan. After reading Evolution 2.0, Sam and I got together to discuss my journey from fundamentalism to where I am today. We cover many fascinating aspects from Darwinist Jerry Coyne's outrage to the nature of fundamentalist belief structures to evolution and entrepreneurship to questions about the cosmos and free will. Sam's website is https://linktr.ee/whenbeliefdies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned Newtonian physics in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, “Newtonian” thinking has remained firmly entrenched inscience. Certainly, all scientists now agree that at the subatomic level and atnear light speed, quantum physics overtakes Newtonian physics. But thishas had very little effect on biology and has done nothing to overturn the“reductionist” view of science, which says that everything is merely the sumof its parts and all can be modeled by mathematics.Stuart Kauffman and computer scientist Andrea Roli have written a newpaper that proves evolving biology in principle cannot be reduced tocomputation. This is as devastating to materialistic science as Gödel’sIncompleteness Theorem was to mathematics. In fact, it is equivalent -because it shows that evolving organisms embody incompleteness.Induction, not a deduction. And induction cannot come from deduction;therefore biology is not strictly computational.Thus Kauffman and Roli have pulled the rug out from under ultra-traditionalviews of physics. (Not everyone is going to be happy about this.) Here, PerryMarshall and Stuart Kauffman jazz improvise on the vast implications of thisnew, holistic view of the universe.You can read their paper “The World is Not a Theorem” athttps://tinyurl.com/stuartkauffman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today if you’re diagnosed with Stage 3 or Stage 4 cancer, your chances of surviving are no better than if you lived in 1930. But your chances are 100 times better when catch it early.What if you could catch cancer SUPER early - years before any obvious indication of a problem?And what if you could then solve the problem at its roots so it never recurs at all?Azra Raza is an oncologist at Colombia University and author of The First Cell: The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Here she describes the First Cell Project. This is a collaboration with world class cancer researchers who have discovered how to identify “Giant Cells” that PREDATE and predict the generation of tumors YEARS in advance.You’ll be privy to the incredibly moving story of Andrew, her daughter’s best friend who died of brain cancer at age 24… and the systemic problems that continue to plague the cancer field and repeat the tragedy of Andrew. Here we discuss why only outsiders will solve these problems.WEBSITE LINKS: www.azraraza.com www.firstcellcenter.comBe sure and watch my previous interview with Azra Raza at www.evo2.org/azra - it’s a barn burner and provides important background that gives rich context to this new discussion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a unique show in the Finding Genius series. Podcast founder and host Richard Jacobs cites Perry Marshall’s ideas as the impetus for starting the Finding Genius podcast.In this discussion, listeners can learn more about why and hear about the Cancer & Evolution Symposium Marshall has helped construct on cancer and evolutionary biology.He explains:What the basic ideas of his book Evolution 2.0 are, namely an argument for a new model for evolution that better fits organisms’ active adaptationsHow cancer is evolution gone wild and why better cancer treatment necessitates adopting this new conception of evolutionWhich topics and speakers appear in the Cancer and Evolution Symposium and a preview of several exciting findings they presented.Perry Marshall is an author and highly influential business consultant with an electrical engineering background. In this discussion, he connects the foundational ideas in Evolution 2.0 with cutting-edge cancer science. Marshall lost his father to cancer at age 17 and has followed the theories behind its treatment ever since. He reminds listeners that common cancer therapy treatment only works routinely with early-stage cancer.Alternatively, he says that when cancer reaches stages 3 and 4, survival chances are not that much better than they were in 1930. Therefore, there must be a lag in how we are addressing serious cancer diagnoses. This lag is connected with a traditional view of passive evolutionary theory rather than theories like that of Professor Henry Heng, who claims evolution is actively engineered by organisms themselves; in addition, they are able to pass those engineered traits to their offspring.Henry Heng was one of the speakers at the Cancer and Evolution Symposium along with Columbia University Medical Center’s Azra Raza and evolutionary theorist James Shapiro from the University of Chicago. Dr. Heng connects this theory of evolution and cancer, noting that treatments like chemo destroy about 98% of the cancer cells while the few remaining develop massive wholesale restructuring of their DNA and are then more equipped to spread and survive. Importantly, this restructuring is active rather than a random accident of mutations.Marshall explains these ideas in more detail and discusses other topics covered by the speakers. He describes the symposium as a world-class collection of cancer and evolutionary theorists coming together to address cancer evolution and disable the cancer treatment lag. The symposium took place October 14th through 16th, 2020.To learn more - see the symposium website: cancerevolution.org. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Perry Marshall was invited to Notre Dame Business School to present at a masters level class on new trends in medicine and biology. This talk canvases a spectrum of issues from COVID- 19, virus evolution and the dark underbelly of cancer research. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Perry Marshall discusses avenues of research that may uncover the mystery of what makes life alive. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2019, I interviewed Joel Salatin, advocate of alternate farming. Our conversation prompted me to predict for the decade 2020 - 2029 that laws would be overturned making local food production and distribution a rising economic force. I didn't know then that COVID was about to speed that process up 10X. Here's what's happened since then. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University crosses many disciplines: computer science, embryo development, cancer and tumor research; limb regeneration; evolutionary theory and neural networks. If you watch some of Michael's fascinating talks at https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/research/presentations.htm he'll take you down his magical rabbit hole including worms that grow new heads when you cut them in half, tumors that heal themselves and eyes planted on tails that actually work. In this interview, Michael explodes the myth that "we've got it mostly figured out." The truth is closer to 1% understanding and 99% is Dark Matter. Discover Michael's research at https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/michael-levin/ and http://www.drmichaellevin.org. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Azra Raza treated cancer patients for 30 years, but not even the loss of her Oncologist husband could provoke her to write a book. It took the death of her daughter’s dearest 22 year old friend - when suddenly she realized she had to speak up. Here we discuss the one most important thing that The System overlooks - THE PATIENT’S ANGUISH - and speaks out about the state of cancer research in the 21st century. Groupthink, sexism, ignorance of history, and absence of empathy… and no one is in charge.A quarter-trillion dollars later, we’re still carrying out the same punishing treatments we were doling out in the 1970s - where life extensions of six weeks are heralded as "breakthroughs." We discuss the “Cancer Cambrian” and the great black hole that is our grasp of cancer cellular evolution. Finally, witness Azra’s dream of a superior system for detecting and beating cancer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Tour, a renowned nanochemist at Rice University, has been openly critical of Origin Of Life literature for being too optimistic, too sanguine and at times misleading. See this video for example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg When Perry Marshall took part in a discussion on the Unbelievable show with Denis Noble and Lee Cronin, host Justin Brierley mentioned Tour and his criticism. A reaction ensued, which led to Tour and Cronin going head to head on an international radio program and podcast. Here, we re-broadcast the scene that provoked the controversy and the debate that followed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Addy Pross is a Chemist at Ben Gurion University in Israel. He's author of "What is Life: How Chemistry Becomes Biology" by Oxford University Press. Here we enjoyed a great conversation about his specialty, Systems Chemistry, a new branch of science that enables us to build complex networks of chemical reactions like those found inside of cells. We explore the unanswered questions that continue to perplex scientists of all kinds. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lynn Margulis, who died in 2012, was a piercing luminary in the history of evolutionary theory. She overturned the money changer's tables in the temple of science and infuriated a lot of people. But history has continued to vindicate her. In this interview, she and Conner explore a very different way of thinking about life itself and you’ll hear her brilliant mind and feisty posture.Conner Habib's Patreon: Patreon.com/connerhabib See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

William Miller tells his story of being seduced into evolutionary science by a mysterious female named Sue. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.