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Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute

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. Episode notes and archives available at idthefuture.com.

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#2285
Tuesday · 53 min
Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers
Is the natural world full of flawed, makeshift designs, as some critics of intelligent design have argued? Or are living things far more ingeniously engineered than weve been led to believe? On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is plea
#2284
Saturday · 35 min
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin
In June 1860, just seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, three men hotly debated the merits of Darwins argument at a meeting of the British Association. Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and botanist Joseph Hooker defended Dar
#2283
October 28 · 30 min
Co-Opting Purpose: How Materialists Redefine Biological Agency
Purpose has been a fundamental part of our understanding of nature for millennia. But the rise of scientific materialism and Darwinism saw purpose get left out of the scientific pursuit. In recent years, materialists have found it necessary to bring purp
#2282
October 26 · 28 min
The Exclusion, and Return, of Purpose in Science
Purpose was once considered fundamental to understanding nature. But for the last few centuries, scientists committed to a Darwinian view of life have ignored it. Now some materialists are reconsidering agency, function, and emergence in biology. But can
#2281
October 23 · 23 min
Landmark Origins Book Conclusions Are Even Stronger Today
On this classic ID the Future out of the vault, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews Roger Olsen, co-author of the groundbreaking book The Mystery of Life’s Origin. In the work’s epilogue the authors suggested that a designing intelligence stands as the
#2280
October 21 · 40 min
How Engineering Logic Unlocks Biological Mysteries
Intelligent design is fundamentally a theory of design detection. But in addition to helping us evaluate models that best explain past events, ID can also guide experiments that study the present-day operations of nature. On this ID The Future, host Andr
#2279
October 19 · 40 min
From Origins to Operations: The Broad Utility of Intelligent Design
You may already know that an intelligent design framework can help us empirically detect whether an outcome in nature exhibits properties that indicate design. But did you also know an ID perspective can be applied to experimental science to guide resear
#2278
October 16 · 1 hr 10 min
Servers & Souls: Cloud Computing and Personal Identity
Like many, you may be storing important files and photos in the cloud. But just where is this magical cloud? How is it powered? Is it safe? To answer these questions and more, Mind Matters News host Robert J. Marks is joined by Walter Myers III, a princi
#2277
October 14 · 24 min
How an ID Framework Guides the Search for Habitable Worlds
How rare is Planet Earth in the vastness of the cosmos? Will we find other planets in space that could possibly harbor life? A new space telescope has just been launched that may help us with answers to those questions. On todays episode of ID The Future
#2276
October 12 · 35 min
I Helped Build NASA’s Latest Space Telescope. Here’s What It Will Do.
A new space telescope was recently launched by NASA. What will it look for? Why do we need another telescope exploring the heavens? And how does an intelligent design perspective enrich both the expectations and interpretations of the telescope’s finding
#2275
October 9 · 19 min
The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now
On this ID the Future our of the archive, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews chemist Charles Thaxton about a seminal 1984 book he co-authored, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, foundational to the intelligent design movement. The main body of Mystery was
#2274
October 7 · 44 min
How Intelligent Engineering Can Solve the Electromagnetic Spectrum Crisis
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Mind Matters regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin
#2273
October 5 · 34 min
Restoring the Natural Theology Tradition That Fueled Modern Science
What is the state of the debate over evolution and intelligent design in the UK? And how will Discovery Institutes new Cambridge initiative impact the debate going forward? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes fellow Scotsman Dr. Alistai
#2272
October 2 · 22 min
Sunlight And Water Are Uniquely Fit to Sustain Life
If the sun didnt power the photosynthesis of green plants, we wouldnt be breathing right now. And without the finely tuned properties of water, Earth would be a frozen, lifeless wasteland. Coincidence? Or is something else at work? On this classic episod
#2271
September 30 · 28 min
Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real
What is the story of everything? Is there a scientific and philosophical basis for meaning? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues exploring those questions with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin. In Part 2, the conversation turns to
#2270
September 28 · 31 min
A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory
Why are we here? Does life, or the universe, mean anything? And if it does, what? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid explores those questions and more with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin. Using the recent documentary film The Story of Eve
#2269
September 25 · 21 min
Why Carbon is Finely Tuned for Life
In his book Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe writes that in order to understand the barriers to evolution, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity.” On this classic episode of ID The Future out of the vault, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back to
#2268
September 23 · 37 min
Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design
By now, you’re likely familiar with the multiverse hypothesis, which is actually just one of dozens of cosmological models proposed to explain away the significance of a beginning to the universe and the evidence for fine-tuning. But you may not know the
#2267
September 21 · 36 min
Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars: Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning
You’re likely familiar with the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, and you may be aware that there are several cosmological models attempting to explain away that fine-tuning, including the popular multiverse hypothesis. But did you know an ID
#2266
September 18 · 1 hr 29 min
Tech Entrepreneur on People-First AI Innovation in Business
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Mind Matters regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin

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