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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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Yesterday · 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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Wednesday · 54 min
The Missing 20 Years: What Designer Science Left Out
Is the intelligent design movement a short-lived phenomenon that has come and gone? Or is its steady and consistent growth evidence of a flourishing scientific program? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Case
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Monday · 49 min
Fact-Checking Designer Science: Casey Luskin on ID History Errors
Is intelligent design dying out or just warming up? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Casey Luskin to a new and improved podcast studio for a sit-down, in-person conversation! Today, Dr. Luskin discusses a recent book called Desig
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September 11 · 32 min
Stephen Meyer & Ben Shapiro Discuss the Origin of Information
On this episode of ID The Future from our archive, we’re bringing you the concluding half of a 2019 interview between Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro and philosopher of science Dr. Stephen C. Meyer. The conversation is now seven years old, so its a good time
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September 9 · 31 min
Priors & Proof: Brian Miller Unpacks the Meyer/Halper Debate
Are the Big Bang and the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe evidence that supports theistic belief or undermines it? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Brian Miller to give us a breakdown of a recent debate between philos
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September 4 · 30 min
Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro Talk Intelligent Design
On this ID The Future selected out of the vault, we bring you the first half of Daily Wire host Ben Shapiros 2019 interview with philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer on The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special. This exchange happened seven years ago now, and w
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September 2 · 1 hr 13 min
Angus Menuge: A Defense of the Soul in the Age of AI
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. In this episode of Mind Matters News, hosts Dr. Robert J. Marks and Pa
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August 31 · 51 min
Physicist Robert Sheldon on Wonder, Discovery, and The Story of Everything
By now, you’ve likely heard of the new documentary film The Story of Everything. It’s a cinematic exploration of the evidence for intelligent design in the cosmos, from the fine-tuning of the universe to the stunning engineering in every living cell. Tod
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August 28 · 35 min
Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing
If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future out of the vault, guest host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about
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August 26 · 24 min
The Real-Life Medicine and Science Behind Oppenheimer’s Demon
Most people know about the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. But Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project had on hand another nuclear core. After claiming the lives of two scientists in separate accidents, it was dubbed the Demon Core and melted d
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August 24 · 22 min
Science & Suspense: Geoffrey Simmons Talks Oppenheimer’s Demon
Have you ever read a book wherein both the origin and end of man hang in the balance? Thats a rare combination that comes together in a new disaster thriller novel now available from Discovery Institute Press. On this ID The Future, DI Press executive ed
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August 22 · 41 min
Why AI and Darwinian Theory Share the Same Computational Limits
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institutes Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. On this episode of Mind Matters News, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr.
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August 19 · 30 min
Race Against the Clock: Geoff Simmons Reads From Oppenheimer’s Demon
There are many books written by intelligent design scientists and scholars that explore the scientific evidence for intelligent design and the debate over evolution. But a new book published by Discovery Institute Press manages to be concerned with “both
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August 17 · 51 min
An Oncologist’s Journey Out of Scientific Atheism
Can a blind, evolutionary process account for who we are and why we’re here? Is there anything beyond this life? On this ID The Future, enjoy a conversation with veteran oncologist, author, and speaker Dr. Stephen Iacobini. In this conversation, original
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August 14 · 22 min
Sleeping and Waking, By Design
Are we to credit an unguided evolutionary process for the gift of sleeping and waking? Or are these intricate systems further evidence of design? On this ID The Future selected out of the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr.
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August 12 · 32 min
The Biochemical Challenge to Darwinian Evolution Turns 30
In 2026, one of the most influential books on science in our lifetime turns 30 years old. It’s Darwin’s Black Box, written by biochemist and professor Michael J. Behe. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Behe
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August 10 · 27 min
Michael Behe on Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box
One of the seminal books of the modern intelligent design movement is Darwin’s Black Box, written by biochemist and professor Michael J. Behe. In 2026, that book turns 30. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid talks to Dr. Behe about th
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August 7 · 21 min
The Intelligent Design of Sleep
We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important, but many of us arent sure exactly why. Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the processes of sleep emerge in living things? Could a gradu
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August 5 · 1 hr 26 min
Neurosurgeon and Engineer Critique a Materialist Theory of Consciousness
Todays episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News. Today, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Robert Marks and Dr. Michael Egnor to the show to critique Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a popular mathematical model that at
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August 3 · 23 min
Enjoy a Reading From the Landmark Book Darwin’s Black Box
Its the book that helped launch the biochemical challenge to Darwinian evolution. It has been hailed as one of the most influential books on science in our lifetime. And this year, it celebrates thirty years in print! On todays ID the Future, host Andrew

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