Wesley Huff

There's not actually a design to it.

It's just the illusion of design.

But I think if we actually look at when Darwin was writing, they thought the smaller you got, the simpler it got.

And now we know that the smaller you get, in fact, the more complex you get.

Yeah, our understanding of science has grown exponentially even from Darwin's day.

And there's an aspect of like Darwinian evolution that has moved on into what we would now call like neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory.

And you look at individuals, like I mentioned Stephen Meyer before, and he even has questioned some of these things about the explanations that are working as givens for evolutionary theory.

I still don't think it gets us back to, okay, then why do we have purpose?

So I know that the world is at least 35 years old.

I don't think it's an answer that the Bible is actually attempting to address in terms of the age of the earth.

I don't see any reason not to because I don't think that the creation story in Genesis chapter 1 is necessarily...

An attempt to reveal the mechanisms of how God did that exactly.

Sure.

Yeah, and I'm fine with that, actually.

I don't think I have to adhere to neo-Darwinian evolution in order to actually believe that the world is old.

I think I would adhere to an intelligent design thesis, but— What does that mean?

So—

Essentially that the world around us is intelligently designed, not necessarily in that it came through processes of evolution.

Once again, I'm not a scientist, right?

I'm a historian.