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, weekly 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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On this ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and skeptic Michael Shermer address the question of how a divine immaterial being could act in the material world to design and fashion things such as the ...

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09.17.2021 Pt. 3: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer On this ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and skeptic Michael Shermer address the question of how a divine immaterial being could act in the material world to design and fashion things such as the ...
09.15.2021 Pt. 2: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer Today’s ID the Future continues a lively and cordial conversation between atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this segment of the four-part ...
09.13.2021 Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer, Pt. 1 Today’s ID the Future spotlights the first part of a lively and cordial conversation between host and atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. ...
09.10.2021 Why This Virus is No Threat to Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, host and biologist Ray Bohlin interviews biophysicist Cornelius Hunter, author of Darwin’s God, about an article in the journal Science concerning a virus invasion of E. coli bacteria. The article ...
09.08.2021 Physicist Brian Miller Talks Nanotech, Origin of Life, and Area 51 On today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller and host Eric Anderson continue their exploration of a recent conversation between origin-of-life investigators Jeremy England and Paul Davies on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable? radio show. Miller begins with a quick flyover of ...
09.03.2021 Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource This classic ID the Future resurfaces just in time to celebrate human creative capacity, and a blockbuster movie, for Labor Day weekend. Host Robert Crowther talks with Rachel Adams about Thanos, the arch-villain from Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, and a ...
09.01.2021 Dissecting an Unbelievable Conversation about Abiogenesis On today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller and host Eric Anderson explore a recent conversation between physicists Jeremy England and Paul Davies on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable? radio show. Davies admitted he doesn’t want the origin of life to require ...
08.30.2021 Author Neil Thomas Takes Leave of Darwin, Pt. 2 On this ID the Future, Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas and host Jonathan Witt continue their conversation about Thomas’s journey from Darwinian materialism to theistic humanism and a thorough skepticism of Darwinian theory. Here Thomas links the heroic ...
08.27.2021 John West and Michael Medved Talk Human Zoos and Racism This ID the Future from the vault features an interview with filmmaker John West on the Michael Medved Show, about West’s powerful documentary Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism, now streaming on YouTube and with more than three ...
08.25.2021 Jonathan Wells Dives into “the Genome’s Uncharted Territories” On this ID the Future, Icons of Evolution author Jonathan Wells sat down with host and fellow biologist Ray Bohlin at the August 2021 Insiders’ Briefing near Seattle to discuss some fresh discoveries into the workings of the human genome ...
08.23.2021 Author Neil Thomas Discusses Taking Leave of Darwin, Pt. 1 On today’s ID the Future, meet Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas, not at all the sort of person one might expect to find waging a campaign against modern evolutionary theory. An erudite and settled Darwinist living comfortably in ...
08.20.2021 Back to School Tips On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, Casey Luskin offers tips for when diversity doesn’t extend into the biology classroom. Casey suggests never opting out of learning evolution — in fact, both students and parents should learn ...
08.18.2021 Discovery: Renin Nanotech for Blood Pressure Control, Pt. 2 On this ID the Future, physician Howard Glicksman and host Eric Anderson dive deeper into the body’s exquisite blood pressure control system, cueing off a new discovery described at Science Daily as uncovering “the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside ...
08.16.2021 Scientists Discover Nanotech for Body’s Blood Pressure Control, Pt. 1 On this ID the Future, physician and Evolution News writer Howard Glicksman discusses an exciting new discovery by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, described at Science Daily as uncovering “the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside ...
08.13.2021 Should Conservatives Embrace Darwinism? On this ID the Future from the vault, Discovery Institute’s John West discusses his book Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest. Most conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin’s theory, yet a number of thinkers on the right, such as ...
08.11.2021 Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond Today’s ID the Future offers a sneak peek at the new book Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design by Neil Thomas (Discovery Institute Press). Here Scotsman Andrew McDiarmid reads from a Chapter 2 segment ...
08.09.2021 Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards and host Eric Anderson wrap up their conversation about a video where Carl Sagan plumps for atheism. At one point Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, ...
08.06.2021 Jay Richards Talks God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards, co-author of The Privileged Planet, continues a conversation with host Eric Anderson about Carl Sagan and a short video clip where Sagan fields questions about God. Sagan points out that there are ...
08.04.2021 Eric Metaxas: Science Actually Strengthens the Case for God On this classic ID the Future, bestselling author Eric Metaxas tackles the question, Does a commitment to science mean the death of God? Metaxas answers: Just the opposite. Increasingly, science makes the case for God. He and host David Boze ...
08.02.2021 Jay Richards: Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It On today’s ID the Future, Privileged Planet co-author Jay W. Richards sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss the gold rush of extrasolar planet discovery and how the Privileged Planet hypothesis has held up since 2004. Richards teases an ...
07.30.2021 Darwin Devolves Author Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 3 On this ID the Future, ID biologist Michael Behe continues fielding tough questions from philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 3 of 3, Behe responds to the claim that some designs in biology are bad designs and ...
07.28.2021 ID Pioneer Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 2 In today’s ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 2 of a three-part series, Behe offers an illustration from language and Madden presses him, noting that ...
07.26.2021 Biologist Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 1 Today’s ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe speaking about the logic and evidence of intelligent design with two philosophers, Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. In a friendly, stimulating exchange, Flynn and Madden press ...
07.21.2021 More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller continues his review of James Tour’s origin-of-life YouTube series. As Miller explains, Tour, a world-renowned synthetic organic chemist and professor at Rice University, was inspired to create the series when YouTuber and ...
07.19.2021 The Origin of Life was the Origin of an Engineering Marvel On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller touches on various challenges facing the origin of the first life. He and host Eric Anderson discuss Jeremy England’s origin-of-life ideas and the RNA World Hypothesis, and offer multiple reasons why they ...
07.16.2021 Jay Richards: AI Machines Aren’t Us, and Won’t Replace Us On this ID the Future from the vault, author Jay Richards discusses The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines. Science fiction tantalizes us — and pundits terrorize us — with images of intelligent ...
07.14.2021 An ID Debate, Pt. 2: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly Today’s ID the Future concludes a debate over the merits of intelligent design and modern evolutionary theory. Günter Bechly is a distinguished German paleoentomologist who was an atheist and Darwinist but became convinced of theism after he finally decided to ...
07.12.2021 An ID Debate: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly, Pt. 1 Today’s ID the Future features a debate over the merits of intelligent design. Günter Bechly is a German paleoentomologist heard many times on ID the Future, who says the science convinced him that intelligent design is true. S. Joshua Swamidass ...
07.09.2021 Biologist Ralph Seelke on How His Lab Results Spell Trouble for Darwin Biologist Ralph Seelke describes his evolution research at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and explains the difference between microevolution and macroevolution. Source
07.07.2021 Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed On today’s ID the Future, author and biologist Michael Behe discusses with host Andrew McDiarmid how the once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Behe suggested in his ID classic Darwin’s Black Box—and indeed, even more ...
07.02.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 4 On this ID the Future from the vault, biologist Jonathan Wells rounds out his discussion with host Casey Luskin about his journal article “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” In the first three episodes in ...
07.02.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 4 On this ID the Future from the vault, biologist Jonathan Wells rounds out his discussion with host Casey Luskin about his journal article “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” In the first three episodes in ...
06.30.2021 Physicist Eric Hedin: Information, Entropy, First Life On today’s ID the Future, Canceled Science author and physicist Eric Hedin talks with host Eric Anderson about the challenge the generalized second law of thermodynamics poses for purely naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism. The ...
06.30.2021 Physicist Eric Hedin: Information, Entropy, First Life On today’s ID the Future, Canceled Science author and physicist Eric Hedin talks with host Eric Anderson about the challenge the generalized second law of thermodynamics poses for purely naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism. The ...
06.28.2021 Casey Luskin Reviews Three Views on Christianity and Science On today’s ID the Future, host Tom Gilson and guest Casey Luskin discuss a new book Luskin recently reviewed at Evolution News, Three Views on Christianity and Science. Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, summarizes ...
06.28.2021 Casey Luskin Reviews Three Views on Christianity and Science On today’s ID the Future, host Tom Gilson and guest Casey Luskin discuss a new book Luskin recently reviewed at Evolution News, Three Views on Christianity and Science. Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, summarizes ...
06.25.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 3 On this classic ID the Future, hear more from biologist Jonathan Wells on his journal article “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” Dr. Wells explains how biological information is carried in the form of a ...
06.25.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 3 On this classic ID the Future, hear more from biologist Jonathan Wells on his journal article “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” Dr. Wells explains how biological information is carried in the form of a ...
06.23.2021 What Darwinism Fails to Explain about Business Enterprise On today’s ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Eric Holloway about his recent Mind Matters article, “Can Darwinian Theory Explain the Rise and Fall of Businesses?” Why would anyone think Darwinian theory could explain business ups and downs? ...
06.23.2021 What Darwinism Fails to Explain about Business Enterprise On today’s ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Eric Holloway about his recent Mind Matters article, “Can Darwinian Theory Explain the Rise and Fall of Businesses?” Why would anyone think Darwinian theory could explain business ups and downs? ...
06.21.2021 Pat Flynn, Stephen Meyer, and the Return of the God Hypothesis, Pt. 2 On this ID the Future, Pat Flynn continues his conversation with bestselling author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The focus is Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, ...
06.21.2021 Pat Flynn, Stephen Meyer, and the Return of the God Hypothesis, Pt. 2 On this ID the Future, Pat Flynn continues his conversation with bestselling author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The focus is Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, ...
06.18.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 2 On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, biologist and CSC senior fellow Jonathan Wells continues his conversation with Casey Luskin about Wells’ peer-reviewed article, “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” Listen in ...
06.18.2021 JONATHAN WELLS: BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION BEYOND DNA, PT. 2 On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, biologist and CSC senior fellow Jonathan Wells continues his conversation with Casey Luskin about Wells’ peer-reviewed article, “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” Listen in ...
06.16.2021 Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer Talk Thomism and Intelligent Design On today’s ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen C. Meyer sits down with podcaster and philosopher Pat Flynn to discuss Meyer’s new book. Flynn notes that some contemporary followers of the great medieval Catholic philosopher Thomas ...
06.16.2021 Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer Talk Thomism and Intelligent Design On today’s ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen C. Meyer sits down with podcaster and philosopher Pat Flynn to discuss Meyer’s new book. Flynn notes that some contemporary followers of the great medieval Catholic philosopher Thomas ...
06.14.2021 Dustin Van Hofwegen on Engineering and Evolution in Lilliput On today’s ID the Future we go behind the scenes at the recent Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, where host Jonathan Witt sat down with Dustin Van Hofwegen, a biology professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. The two ...
06.14.2021 Dustin Van Hofwegen on Engineering and Evolution in Lilliput On today’s ID the Future we go behind the scenes at the recent Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, where host Jonathan Witt sat down with Dustin Van Hofwegen, a biology professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. The two ...
06.11.2021 Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA, Pt. 1 On this classic ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Jonathan Wells about his article, “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” In this first of a series of interviews, Dr. Wells gives an overview of ...
06.11.2021 Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA, Pt. 1 On this classic ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Jonathan Wells about his article, “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” In this first of a series of interviews, Dr. Wells gives an overview of ...

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