Bret Weinstein

Yeah.

There's certainly a lot of people who would argue that actually no, there are gaps you can't jump.

Let's just say I have, you know, initially I thought that all of the intelligent design folks were anti-scientific and really basically just religious people wielding sophistry.

I now know several of them in person and quite like them, and I quite like them scientifically.

I think they actually have done an excellent job of pointing out the folly in evolutionary biology.

And in part, what I'm saying is I appreciate their pointing out that the mechanism that we teach is not powerful enough to do what we claim it does.

I have the same suspicion.

My argument is there is a mechanism that is powerful enough

And we haven't been looking at it because we've been telling the story that we've got it nailed already.

And I just don't think we do.

So let's go to your question about how you get from a creature that can't fly at all to a creature that does fly.

And now my feeling is actually this one is pretty easy.

And I'm not saying that we know how it did happen in the case of a bat.

We are hobbled in the case of bats by two things.

One, the fact that bats are primarily tropical.

The bulk of the species are tropical.

And the other is that the majority of bats are small with spindly limbs.

What that means is that they don't fossilize well.

Tropics are not a good place for fossilization, and bats are not a good candidate for fossilization.

And so unfortunately, the fossil record doesn't tell us a clear story the way it does.