Bret Weinstein

Probably you could take the list of materials that an excavator is made out of and you could give it to a bunch of engineers and you could say, I want you to make a Maserati, but you're limited to these materials. And they could do it. Wouldn't be quite as good because there'd be some places where the ideal material wasn't available to them anymore.

Probably you could take the list of materials that an excavator is made out of and you could give it to a bunch of engineers and you could say, I want you to make a Maserati, but you're limited to these materials. And they could do it. Wouldn't be quite as good because there'd be some places where the ideal material wasn't available to them anymore.

Probably you could take the list of materials that an excavator is made out of and you could give it to a bunch of engineers and you could say, I want you to make a Maserati, but you're limited to these materials. And they could do it. Wouldn't be quite as good because there'd be some places where the ideal material wasn't available to them anymore.

But there's no reason you couldn't make a Maserati out of the stuff. Or a sports car. Right. Yeah. So... What that means is there are chemical differences between an excavator and a sports car, but they're not the story. of the differences in what those two creatures do. The chemistry differences are incidental.

But there's no reason you couldn't make a Maserati out of the stuff. Or a sports car. Right. Yeah. So... What that means is there are chemical differences between an excavator and a sports car, but they're not the story. of the differences in what those two creatures do. The chemistry differences are incidental.

But there's no reason you couldn't make a Maserati out of the stuff. Or a sports car. Right. Yeah. So... What that means is there are chemical differences between an excavator and a sports car, but they're not the story. of the differences in what those two creatures do. The chemistry differences are incidental.

Now, when we tell you that the differences that a bat became a flying mammal because it had a shrew-like ancestor, and that shrew-like ancestor had a genome spelled out in three-letter codons, those three-letter codons specify amino acids of which there are 20.

Now, when we tell you that the differences that a bat became a flying mammal because it had a shrew-like ancestor, and that shrew-like ancestor had a genome spelled out in three-letter codons, those three-letter codons specify amino acids of which there are 20.

Now, when we tell you that the differences that a bat became a flying mammal because it had a shrew-like ancestor, and that shrew-like ancestor had a genome spelled out in three-letter codons, those three-letter codons specify amino acids of which there are 20.

and that the difference between the bat and the shrew is based in the differences in the proteins that are described by the genome, we are essentially saying that the difference between the bat and the shrew is a chemical difference. It's not a simple chemical difference the way it was when we were talking about excavators and sports cars. But nonetheless, it's a biochemical difference, right?

and that the difference between the bat and the shrew is based in the differences in the proteins that are described by the genome, we are essentially saying that the difference between the bat and the shrew is a chemical difference. It's not a simple chemical difference the way it was when we were talking about excavators and sports cars. But nonetheless, it's a biochemical difference, right?

and that the difference between the bat and the shrew is based in the differences in the proteins that are described by the genome, we are essentially saying that the difference between the bat and the shrew is a chemical difference. It's not a simple chemical difference the way it was when we were talking about excavators and sports cars. But nonetheless, it's a biochemical difference, right?

The difference in the spelling of its proteins and structural proteins and enzymes and all of that stuff. I don't believe that mechanism is nearly powerful enough to explain how a shrew-like ancestor became a bat.

The difference in the spelling of its proteins and structural proteins and enzymes and all of that stuff. I don't believe that mechanism is nearly powerful enough to explain how a shrew-like ancestor became a bat.

The difference in the spelling of its proteins and structural proteins and enzymes and all of that stuff. I don't believe that mechanism is nearly powerful enough to explain how a shrew-like ancestor became a bat.

There's a whole layer that is missing that allows... evolution to explore design space much more efficiently than the mechanism that we invoke.

There's a whole layer that is missing that allows... evolution to explore design space much more efficiently than the mechanism that we invoke.

There's a whole layer that is missing that allows... evolution to explore design space much more efficiently than the mechanism that we invoke.

The mechanism that we invoke is... Random mutation. Random mutation, which I believe in, random mutation happens, selection, which chooses those variants that are produced by mutation and collects the ones that give the creature an advantage. There's nothing wrong with that story. That story is true.

The mechanism that we invoke is... Random mutation. Random mutation, which I believe in, random mutation happens, selection, which chooses those variants that are produced by mutation and collects the ones that give the creature an advantage. There's nothing wrong with that story. That story is true.