Bret Weinstein

And I think the answer is just simply no.

It's quite possible.

Well, no.

I mean, you know, let's steel man the opposing position.

Intelligent design position?

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.