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Hear the podcast that started trouble for Dr. Robert J. Marks II.

After this podcast you are about to hear first aired, Dr. Marks' website, originally hosted by Baylor University, was taken down in an act of censorship by his university because it questioned undirected Darwinian evolution. The resulting legal haranguing and media attention shown in the video resulted in Dr. Marks being identified as one of many academicians penalized for questioning Darwinian orthodoxy in the Ben Stein documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

This podcast originally aired July 20, 2007. The broadcast brought Dr. Marks's ID friendly website, EvoInfo.org, to the attention of the Baylor administration.

http://www.evoinfo.org/index/








PODCAST ABSTRACT

In today's episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Robert Marks about his work in evolutionary informatics at Baylor University. Marks explains that evolutionary informatics seeks to emulate evolution on a computer, allowing for new engineering designs to be developed. Unlike Darwinian evolution, this process does not advance gradually, and requires a certain amount of external information to be fed into the computer before the process can begin; in other words, the systems must be designed before the evolution can begin. This contrast fueled Marks' interest in intelligent design, and has led him to critically analyze a number of evolutionary computer programs that claim to prove Darwin's theories.

Dr. Marks is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is also one of the founders of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab. His research and teaching focuses on computational intelligence, including fuzzy systems and neural networks. Dr. Marks' upcoming book, Handbook of Fourier Analysis & Its Application, will be published by Oxford Press. Marks also co-wrote Neural Smithing with Russell Reed published by MIT Press.

For more information on evolutionary computing and Dr. Marks's work, please visit the Evolutionary Informatics Lab homepage: EvoInfo.org

http://www.evoinfo.org/index/