Intelligent Design the Future

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The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design. IDTF is a short podcast providing you with the most current news and views on evolution and ID. IDTF delivers brief interviews with key scientists and scholars developing the theory of ID, as well as insightful commentary from Discovery Institute senior fellows and staff on the scientific, educational and legal aspects of the debate.

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An Interview with I, Charle...

09.30.2022

On this ID the Future, host Joshua Youngkin interviews the author of I, Charles Darwin, Nickell John Romjue, about his unique book in which a time-traveling Charles Darwin returns to the modern day. What would happen if Charles Darwin were ...

Intelligent Design the Future episodes:

09.30.2022 An Interview with I, Charles Darwin author Nickell John Romjue On this ID the Future, host Joshua Youngkin interviews the author of I, Charles Darwin, Nickell John Romjue, about his unique book in which a time-traveling Charles Darwin returns to the modern day. What would happen if Charles Darwin were ...
09.28.2022 The Multiverse—From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond On this ID the Future, Discovery Institute senior fellow Andrew McDiarmid explores the roots of the idea that our universe is just one of many universes, an idea stretching back to the ancient atomists and given new life in the ...
09.26.2022 BEHE COUNTERS THE BEST OBJECTIONS TO IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY AND ID, PT. 3 On today’s ID the Future biologist Michael Behe and Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn conclude their conversation (posted by permission here) about some of the best objections to Behe’s central case for intelligent design. One objection Behe and ...
09.23.2022 Darwin Visits the 21st Century–A Novella, Pt. 5 On this ID the Future, hear the concluding episode of I, Charles Darwin, in which author Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the twenty-first century. Part ...
09.21.2022 BEHE COUNTERS THE BEST OBJECTIONS TO IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY AND ID, PT. 2 Today’s ID the Future continues A Mousetrap for Darwin author Michael Behe’s conversation with philosopher Pat Flynn, focused on some of the more substantive objections to Behe’s case for intelligent design in biology. In this segment the pair discuss the ...
09.19.2022 Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1 On today’s ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe’s central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin’s Black ...
09.16.2022 Darwin Visits the 21st Century–A Novella, Pt. 4 On this classic ID the Future, hear another chapter from Nickell John Romjue’s fascinating book I, Charles Darwin. Follow along as Darwin, on his visit to the twenty-first century, learns about DNA and the other amazing discoveries of molecular biology ...
09.14.2022 The Debate over Design in the Early Church Eerily Current In today’s ID the Future, scholar John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, reveals how current debates over whether nature displays evidence of intelligent design echo debates in the first centuries of the Christian church. ...
09.12.2022 An Origin-of-Life Poser: No Short Cut to Energy-Harnessing On today’s ID the Future, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, the latest video in the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first ...
09.10.2022 Darwin Visits the 21st Century–A Novella, Pt. 3 Today’s ID the Future features another chapter from Nickell John Romjue’s fascinating short novel I, Charles Darwin, in which Darwin is shocked to learn about the impact his theory has had on areas outside of science. Part 1 of the ...
09.07.2022 Energy Harnessing: An Achilles Heel for Origin of Life Origin-of-life specialist Rob Stadler joins today’s ID the Future to discuss a new Long Story Short science video short. The video investigates a special problem that faces all naturalistic origin-of-life scenarios: To be viable, a cell must have sophisticated machinery, ...
09.02.2022 Darwin Visits the 21st Century–A Novella, Pt. 2 Today’s ID the Future from the vault continues the audio adaptation of Nickell John Romjue’s fascinating novella, I, Charles Darwin. In this episode, Romjue’s Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since Darwin’s time on Earth — and ...
08.31.2022 Behe and Ramage: Evolution’s Limits and the Fingerprints of Design Today’s ID the Future wraps up a debate over evolution and intelligent design between Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe and Benedictine College theologian Michael Ramage. Both Behe and Ramage are Catholic, and they carry on their conversation in the context ...
08.29.2022 Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between Catholic intelligent design biologist Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Both agree that nature points to a cosmic designer, but Ramage says he prefers, on aesthetic grounds, the idea that the ...
08.26.2022 Darwin Visits the 21st Century–A Novella, Pt. 1 Today’s ID the Future from the vault presents the beginning of a novella simultaneously fantastical and cheeky, I, Charles Darwin. What would happen if Darwin were to come back today? What would the gentleman of Down House think about the ...
08.24.2022 Michael Behe and Matthew Ramage Debate Evolution and ID, Pt. 1 Today’s ID the Future brings the first part of a friendly debate/discussion between Lehigh University biologist and intelligent design proponent Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Led by Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn, Behe starts by ...
08.22.2022 Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design Today’s ID the Future features three recent Evolution News essays by Lehigh University biology professor and Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe, as read by host Andrew McDiarmid. In the first, nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as ...
08.19.2022 Paul Nelson on Listening to Nature for Her Answers On this ID the Future from the vault, philosopher of science Paul Nelson concludes his talk with host Andrew McDiarmid on what it takes to converse effectively with scientists who are trapped in a naturalistic parabola — that is, researchers ...
08.17.2022 Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and neurotheologian Andrew Newberg. In this second and concluding part of their discussion, they further explore what experiments using brain scans reveal about how the brain is affected by ...
08.16.2022 The Mind/Brain Problem and the Power of Meditative Prayer It’s hard to know where the brain ends and the mind begins. How can studying our brains give us insight into our minds? On this ID the Future, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor sit down for a chat ...
08.13.2022 Paul Nelson on Freeing Minds Trapped in a Naturalistic Parabola On this ID the Future from the vault, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson continues sharing with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a science culture committed to naturalism. As Nelson puts it here, it’s about trying to ...
08.10.2022 Brian Miller Q&A: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer On today’s ID the Future, host John West sits down with physicist and engineer Brian Miller to pitch him questions submitted at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Is the Bible against the pursuit of knowledge about the natural ...
08.08.2022 Brian Miller: The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology Today’s ID the Future brings listeners physicist and engineer Brian Miller’s recent lecture at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, “The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology.” Miller rebuts several popular arguments for evolution based on claims of poor ...
08.05.2022 Octopuses from the Sky: Scientists Propose “Aliens Seeded Life on Earth” On this ID the Future from the vault, biologist Ann Gauger discuss panspermia, the topic of a peer-reviewed paper published recently by several very serious scientists. Panspermia tries to sidestep problems in origins biology by suggesting that, to quote the ...
08.03.2022 Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes? In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design ...
08.01.2022 James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports On today’s ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved sits down with Cambridge-trained philosopher of science Stephen Meyer to hear some exciting news about the newly active James Webb space telescope, a telescope dramatically more powerful than the already extraordinarily ...
07.29.2022 John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea On this ID the Future from the vault, catch the first half of a public talk by political scientist John West on how Darwinism has poisoned Western culture. In the lecture, delivered at the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, ...
07.27.2022 Design in a Naturalistic Culture On this classic ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson speaks with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a naturalistic culture. Nelson also expresses his appreciation for his University of Pittsburgh mentor Adolf Grünbaum, with whom ...
07.25.2022 AI Expert: Pilots in TOP GUN–MAVERICK are Obsolete; You are Not Today’s ID the Future features a recent Michael Medved Show with artificial intelligent expert Robert J. Marks, author of the new book Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will. The occasion for the conversation is an article ...
07.22.2022 Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christianity and the Rise of Modern Science On this ID the Future from the vault, hear the final segment in a five-part conversation between host Casey Luskin and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor. Dr. Egnor discusses how Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance laid the groundwork ...
07.20.2022 Casey Luskin on Why He Favors ID over Theistic Evolution Today’s ID the Future continues intelligent design theorist Casey Luskin’s conversation with Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross. Here in Part 2, Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired ...
07.18.2022 Casey Luskin Champions Intelligent Design at Apologetics 315 Today’s ID the Future features Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross interviewing scientist Casey Luskin about the past, present, and exciting future of the intelligent design movement. Here in Part 1, Luskin tells how he got into ...
07.15.2022 Dr. Michael Egnor: How Science is Censored On this ID the Future from the vault, award-winning neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor joins host Casey Luskin to talk more about his interactions with atheist evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne. Listen in as Egnor tells about Jerry Coyne’s efforts against ...
07.13.2022 The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today On this ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with historian and philosopher of science Michael Keas to discuss a recent article at Times Higher Education, “My Precious! How Academia’s Gollums Guard Their Research Fields.” The article looks at ...
07.11.2022 Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design On today’s ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of famous scientist and science popularizer Carl Sagan concerning his agnosticism shading into atheism on the one hand, and on the other hand ...
07.08.2022 Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will On this ID the Future from the vault, hear more of professor of neurosurgery Michael Egnor and host Casey Luskin’s discussion on free will. If there is no free will, and humans are merely following our chemical instructions, then how ...
07.06.2022 Evolution Challenge: The Harvester Ant Foraging Algorithm On this ID the Future, Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell explores an algorithm in the brains of harvester ants that adjusts their foraging strategy based on how available food is in their environment, thereby guiding the harvester ants toward more ...
07.01.2022 Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor: Humans Have Free Will On this ID the Future from the vault, professor of neurosurgery Michael Egnor and host Casey Luskin continue their conversation, here discussing Dr. Egnor’s experience in an online debate on free will with evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne. Listen in ...
06.29.2022 Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism On this ID the Future, distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly continues unpacking his new argument against modern evolutionary theory. According to Bechly, contemporary species pairs diverge hardly at all over millions of years, even when isolated from each other, and ...
06.27.2022 Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Evolutionary Theory On today’s ID the future, German paleoentomologist Günter Bechly and host Casey Luskin unpack a recent article of Bechly’s at Evolution News, “Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists.” There Bechly describes a challenge to evolutionary theory that thus far ...
06.24.2022 A Brain Surgeon Debates Evolutionist Jerry Coyne and Other Atheists On this ID the Future from the vault, brain surgeon and Evolution News blogger Michael Egnor talks with host Casey Luskin about his internet debates with Jerry Coyne and the trends and dynamics he sees in the intelligent design/evolution blogosphere. ...
06.22.2022 Darwinian Racism vs. Evolutionary Ethics that Devalue All Men Equally Today’s ID the Future again features Darwinian Racism author and historian Richard Weikart and radio host Hank Hanegraaff exploring the pernicious impact Charles Darwin and Darwinism have had on modern ethics. Ideas laid out in Darwin’s The Origin of Species ...
06.20.2022 Richard Weikart and Hank Hanegraaff Talk Darwinian Racism On today’s ID the Future, radio host Hank Hanegraaff interviews historian and Center for Science and Culture senior fellow Richard Weikart about his book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. The two look at how Darwinism ...
06.17.2022 Michael Denton on Predetermined Body Plans and Primal Patterns On this classic ID The Future, biologist Michael Denton discusses the implications of recurring animal body plans, arguing that they are predetermined types undergirding less fundamental “adaptive masks.” Denton questions the ability of a Darwinian process to account for these ...
06.15.2022 Dr. Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness On today’s ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved sits down with bestselling science author Stephen Meyer to discuss the Marvel movie Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Medved isn’t wild about the film, but he uses it as ...
06.13.2022 Stephen Meyer — God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos On today’s ID the Future Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and radio host Michael Medved discuss some hit videos featuring Meyer that explore the increasingly strong scientific case for intelligent design and for the idea that the ...
06.10.2022 The ID Underground, and Three Crumbling Pillars of Evolution On this ID the Future from the vault, host Sarah Chaffee talks with Center for Science and Culture Research Coordinator Brian Miller about the growing ID underground. Miller says that as many as one-quarter of Harvard post-docs in relevant fields ...
06.08.2022 The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down On today’s ID the Future, Miracle of Man author and biologist Michael Denton continues his conversation with host Eric Anderson. Here Denton does a rapid flyover of several more anthropic “coincidences” in chemistry, biochemistry, and Earth science that are fine ...
06.06.2022 David Galloway: The Fetal Circulatory System is Irreducibly Complex On today’s ID the Future, distinguished British physician and author David Galloway explains why he’s convinced that the human fetal circulatory system is irreducibly complex and therefore beyond the reach of blind gradualistic evolution to have built. In his conversation ...
06.03.2022 Mendel vs. Darwin On this ID the Future from the vault, geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, former research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, talks with host Casey Luskin about Gregor Mendel’s laws of inheritance, how they clashed with the thinking ...

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