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Evolution 2.0
by Perry Marshall
The Evolution 2.0 Podcast explores the intersection of art, technology, business, biology and spirituality. Discover new trends in evolution that change the way we think about everything. Host Perry Marshall is author of Evolution 2.0 and founded the Evolution 2.0 Technology Prize, a $10 million quest for the missing link between the information age and life itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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4X Cancer Survivor
Bryan Trilley had his first round with cancer at age 19, and he has had three new cancers since. He is in his forties with five children under ten, and he is Exhibit A of a proactive individual who takes charge of their own health. He tells his story and describes the information and AI tools he...
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Biology doesn’t Just Obey Mathematics. Biology Creates Mathematics.
Physics always obeys equations. Biology does not. Sometimes... but not always! There is scarcely any formula in biology that is 100% true. In biology, there is no precise definition of life, species, individual, gene, allele, inheritance, intelligence, sentience, function, or fitness. This isn't...
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An Invisible World Buzzing with Communication and Excitement: Jon Lieff, MD
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...
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Rethinking Cancer with Bernhard Strauss
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...
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Chemo was like pouring bleach into my veins
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...
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Siri is not going to wake up any time soon? John Sonmez of Bulldog Mindset Talks with Perry Marshall about…Biology
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…
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Viruses, and What Rich Jacobs Discovered From Interviewing 3,000 Experts
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...
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Childhood Trauma Causes Cancer; Therapy and Relationships Heal
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…
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Hear the Incredible Rob Berkley : His final interview
Rob Berkley left this earth in December 2019 as a result of cancer. 58. Rob was THE most empathic and warm-hearted individual in the entire marketing space (I’m not exaggerating). When you would sit down with him you would feel his warmth focusing on you like an infrared heat lamp. He was one of…
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The Ancient Greek and Early Church Fathers on Evolution
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...
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Zombie Cells Gone Wild
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’s conversation is with Dr. Athena Aktipis from Arizona State University, who hosts the Zombified podcast. We explore the not-so-obvious byproducts that…
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Sam Devis of When Belief Dies in Conversation
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...
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334 years after Isaac Newton: The Stuart Kauffman Revolution
Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned Newtonian physics in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, “Newtonian” thinking has remained firmly entrenched in science. Certainly, all scientists now agree that at the subatomic level and at near light speed, quantum physics overtakes Newtonian physics. But...
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Picasso Tadpoles: Michael Levin on the 'Dark Matter' of Biology
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...
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Cancer’s $250 Billion Elephant-In-The-Room
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...
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Trouble In Origin Of Life Paradise
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...
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Dynamic Kinetic Chemistry and the Origin Of Life
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...
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Lynn Margulis’ last interview with Conner Habib
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...
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Bloodhounds never forget a smell
William Miller tells his story of being seduced into evolutionary science by a mysterious female named Sue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Michael Behe, father of “irreducible complexity,” vs. natural genetic engineering
Michael Behe infuriated traditional Darwinists with his concept of irreducible complexity more than 20 years ago. He argues instead for Intelligent Design. But what does ID really mean? Is it a puff of smoke? A perfectly executed pool shot at the start of the Big Bang? External intervention at...
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Joel Salatin: The Uberization of Food (Not Twinkies, REAL food)
Joel Salatin is a "Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic" who is re-inventing the way food is grown, distributed and consumed. Here we examine how current legislation is based on 1906 technology, and the new culinary entrepreneurship that is expanding as we break the shackles…
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What Did They Believe About God Five Thousand Years Ago?
Michael Heiser, whose podcast “The Naked Bible” got five million downloads this year, studied Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin and was confronted with a dilemma: How do you reconcile common modern interpretations with the nuances of what the ancient texts actually say? His journey revealed…
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The Impossible Marketing Problem of Science
How is it that good scientific theories can take 200 years to catch on while bad theories hang on for a century...even when empirical evidence that could settle the issue is close at hand? Rich Jacobs of the FutureTech Podcast asked if we could talk about how scientists can better market…
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Jordan Peterson, God, and the Intellectual Dark Web
What does Jordan Peterson really believe about religion? Is “the Intellectual Dark Web” just another 2018ism? Are archetypes enough to save the next generation? Esther O’Reilly achieved fame in the blog world with her incisive commentary about Jordan Peterson. I caught up with her and we explored...
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AI, Economic Warfare & Surveillance Terrorism
Kevin Freeman, a global financial analyst commissioned by the Pentagon, is one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of Economic Warfare and Financial Terrorism. Here, Kevin and I explore the uses and abuses of AI, algorithms, surveillance technology, and ways foreign governments encroach…
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Why can't we have a civilized dialogue about evolution?
Some science teachers avoid or minimize evolution. Others ram it down their students' throats. Is there another way? Michael Reiss, who is both an evolutionary biologist and ordained priest in the Church of England, explains his method of evolution as a sensitive issue. With the growth of Muslim...
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From Atheist Member of the Communist Party to Fervent Believer
Sy Garte is author of The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith. He is a PhD biologist who has published over 200 papers and worked as a grant reviewer for the NIH. Here he tells his story of transforming from militant atheism to faith and why science itself rejects...
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Darwin, Hip Hop, and Racism in America
Daniel White Hodge confronts racism in America as seen through the eyes of a black man in a mixed race marriage, communication arts professor and hip hop music. Using Charles Darwin’s racism as a jumping off point, we explore the complicated question of race polarization in America....
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Sorrow and Suffering
What do you think about God when your newborn son dies in your arms? Khaldoun Sweis gives a candid telling of his life’s traumatic moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meeting Grendel's Mother in the Spiritual Swamp
“When Perry’s brother quit his missionary job and abandoned Christian faith, this plunged Perry into a deep crisis of questioning everything himself. And he decided to put Christian beliefs on the biggest public anvil he could find and invite the whole world to swing a hammer. This became an…
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Why Christians have Failed to Reckon with Good and Evil
Why is Old Testament bible god so mean and nasty? Why is nature so ruthless and unforgiving? Where do we get our ideas about a kinder, gentler society? Perry Marshall and Paul Braoudakis take the gloves off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Royal Society: Perry Marshall's Prize Announcement in Europe, with Denis Noble, Paul Flather & Kevin Ham, including full Q&A
At the Royal Society in Great Britain on May 31, 2019, Perry Marshall announced the Evolution 2.0 Prize was being doubled to $10M. Present in the room were Denis Noble, Fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. Paul Flather of Oxford, Clive Cookson Science Editor of the Financial Times, Investor Kevin Ham...
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Why "tweaking Darwinism a little" ain't gonna get the job done - Denis Noble, the Martin Luther of Evolutionary Biology
Denis Noble, one of the judges for the Evolution 2.0 Prize, discusses in this interview why we can't just put lipstick on a pig - why the public needs to be aware that evolutionary theory has undergone a revolution, and how this affects not only religious and philosophical discussions but…
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Perry Marshall's Religious Upbringing - Response to The Creation Research Society
Perry responds to the 11-page review of Evolution 2.0 in CRSQ, the Creation Research Society Quarterly, written by Royal Truman: https://creationresearch.org/wp-conte... Zach Spear interviews Perry about growing up in a conservative evangelical church; creationism, evangelical theology…
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Consciousness: The Unacknowledged Truth
Brenda Dunne was a scientist at Princeton University's Engineering Anomalies Research Lab for 28 years, where she and her colleague Robert Jahn performed extensive experiments on telekinesis (displacing objects and changing the behavior of machines by concentration), remote perception (perceiving...
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The Man Who Re-Invented DNA: Steve Benner on Hachimoji DNA
Iconoclast, polymath, renegade and world-class chemist, Steve Benner engineered a new breed of DNA with 8 nucleotide options instead of four. This exponentially increases its data capacity and it’s called Hachimoji DNA. What are the implications of this? Steve sounds off about the conflict…
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Ways to Go Beyond the Status Quo in Science: Rupert Sheldrake in Conversation with Perry Marshall
While working in plant research at Cambridge, Rupert Sheldrake became dissatisfied with existing materialistic theories of science. This led him to develop his theory of morphic resonance. Sheldrake has become a leading proponent of switching from a reductionist scientific paradigm to a holistic...
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Ken Wilbur, Involution, and Evolution as a Function of the Divine: Frank Visser and Perry Marshall in Conversation
Frank Visser became a friend and colleague of Ken Wilbur in the 1980s and wrote a book about his work. In this conversation, we discuss Frank’s departure from Ken Wilbur’s insistence that life itself and evolution are manifestations of the divine. We explore the question of how theology informs...
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"Darwin Devolves" Review - Perry Marshall & Bill Cole discuss Michael Behe's controversial new book
Michael Behe's "Darwin Devolves" asks: Has Darwin solved the design problem in biology? Behe says absolutely not, and backs his position with detailed examples. Furthermore, nobody has really solved the famous problem of "irreducible complexity" that Behe described in "Darwin's Black Box." But...
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"It Keeps Me Seeking" - Interview with Andrew Briggs and Andrew Steane at the University of Oxford
Two world class physicists from Oxford, together with philosophy professor Hans Halvorson from Princeton, integrate faith and science in their new book "It Keeps Me Seeking." Andrew Briggs specializes in nanomaterials and quantum information, and Andrew Steane made a key discovery which was...
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The U.S.-China-AI Collision Course
Former president of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, describes the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in China. He discusses what AI is and is not capable of and how AI challenges us to get much more clarity about what it means to be human. His new book AI Superpowers: China,...
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Bryan’s Story: From Missionary to Almost Atheist to Present Day #24
The opening shot of my book Evolution 2.0 is an argument between me and my brother about evolution. Bryan had been a missionary in China, but in four years he went from right-wing Christian seminary grad to almost atheist. He was dragging me with him. I wasn’t enjoying it, but I knew I had to be...
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Interview with John Feldman of Symbiotic Earth
Symbiotic Earth conveys one of the most important biographies of the last 50 years. It’s no exaggeration to say that Lynn Margulis’ contribution to science is in the same league as Jim Watson, Francis Crick, Stephen Hawking and Barbara McClintock. It profiles a contrarian woman who was a force of...
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From Logos to Bios: Perry Marshall Interviews Wynand De Beer
Wynand De Beer has written a beautiful book From Logos to Bios. He links diverse ideas from the ancient Greeks and their ideas about mathematics and life with recent evolutionary discoveries like convergence and orthogenesis. He offers a new framework for evolutionary models that recognize the...
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A Sacred Space is Never Empty: Interview with Victoria Smolkin
Many have claimed atheism was only incidental to the operation of communism under Lenin, Stalin and the old Soviet Union. Victoria Smolkin's new book "A Sacred Space is Never Empty" is the first book to closely examine the role of atheism in Russia. She explains why the Soviet government promoted...
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Elon Musk, Joe Rogan & The Mythical AI Singularity
Podcaster Joe Rogan sat down with Elon Musk. They discussed AI & Evolution. (Full interview at https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI.) Entrepreneur Tim Berthold mentioned the Elon interview to bestselling author, speaker, engineer and strategy consultant Perry Marshall. Perry explains why the…
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Saving the World with Audie Cashion
I just did a rock-em-sock-em interview with Audie Cashion of World Peace Center. We dug into… The business secrets of blue-green algae Why you gotta pay attention to the pendulum swings in culture The germ of the idea of equality…and what it means in an unequal 80/20 world Why you must find your...
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The Central Dogma and the Weismann Barrier: Does Genetic Information Flow Both Ways? Denis Noble Interview
For a century, the belief was that genetic information built organisms, never the other way around. A new paper by Denis Noble definitively proves otherwise. The paper is called “Central Dogma or Central Debate.” In this interview, Denis explains the revolution that is going on in genetics.…
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David Quammen Interview - The Tangled Tree: A New History of Life
David Quammen's book "The Tangled Tree: A New History of Life" tells the story of evolution through the eyes of Carl Woese, a not-terribly-famous but truly ingenious revolutionary who flipped evolution on its side, literally 90 degrees. He upended Darwin's famous tree of life, showing that genes...
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Claude Shannon: A Mind at Play Interview with Authors Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
Claude Shannon made our modern digital world possible. He wrote a landmark paper called "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" which gave birth to computer networks, cell phones, compact discs, digital recording and video. It also lent huge insights into genetics and biology. Rob Goodman &...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Evolution 2.0 Podcast explores the intersection of art, technology, business, biology and spirituality. Discover new trends in evolution that change the way we think about everything. Host Perry Marshall is author of Evolution 2.0 and founded the Evolution 2.0 Technology Prize, a $10 million quest for the missing link between the information age and life itself.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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