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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Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World
On this ID the Future from the archive, host Jonathan Witt speaks to molecular biologist and professor Dustin Van Hofwegen about his research into the engineered complexity in microbial life. Hofwegen shares his research on the famous decades-long E. col
Jun 6, 2025 · 22 min
Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life
For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial and lie outside the physical world. Today, physicist Dr.
Jun 4, 2025 · 37 min
A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul
On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is thrilled to welcome back renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor to continue discussing his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeons Case for the Existence of the Soul. The book tackles provocative ideas
Jun 2, 2025 · 37 min
Michael Denton on the Primal Patterns That Govern Living Systems
On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, biochemist Dr. Michael Denton discusses the implications of recurring animal body plans, arguing that they are predetermined types that point away from purely mechanistic processes. He observes that structu
May 30, 2025 · 15 min
Can Evolutionary Processes Explain Human Creativity?
On this ID The Future, were sharing a conversation that first aired on Mind Matters News, another podcast from Discovery Institute that focuses on the intersection of artificial and natural intelligence. In this episode, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes eng
May 28, 2025 · 38 min
Why Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe
We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is – blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. But what if that perspective is fundamentally challenged by the very laws of physics that govern our universe? On this ID The Future, host
May 26, 2025 · 25 min
New Study Shatters the 1% Human-Chimp Difference Myth
When scientists originally studied the chimp genome, they used the human genome as a template. This scaffolding technique gave birth to the popular claim that chimp and human genomes are only 1% different. But new research has now blown the 1% myth out o
May 23, 2025 · 32 min
Register Now: HS Biology and Chemistry With Intelligent Design Integration
On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Kristin Marais and Summer Lile, two passionate instructors from Discovery Institute Academy, to discuss their high school biology and chemistry courses, uniquely taught from the perspective that natur
May 21, 2025 · 32 min
The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism
Is your mind more than just your brain? Does the soul actually exist? These questions have been pondered for millennia. What does the latest scientific research suggest? On this ID The Future, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor begins a conversation
May 19, 2025 · 28 min
Johannes Kepler, the Book of Nature, and the Language of Mathematics
On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, Andrew McDiarmid talks with science historian Michael Keas about pioneering mathematical astronomer Johannes Kepler, based on Keas’s book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and
May 16, 2025 · 15 min
Stephen Meyer: There’s a “Powerful Signal of Design” in Nature
On this ID The Future, enjoy the concluding half of a remarkable and candid discussion on the limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. The conversation, recorded in 2019, is hosted by Peter Robinson for his program Uncommon
May 14, 2025 · 34 min
The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution
Does the math behind Darwinian evolution add up? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to enjoy the first half of a remarkable and candid discussion about the limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. The
May 12, 2025 · 30 min
Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory
On this episode of ID the Future from our archive, Dr. Paul Nelson talks with Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, retired geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Germany, about randomness in natural selection and why randomness is suc
May 9, 2025 · 16 min
More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda
Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering and the result of intelligent design? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with retired geneticist, Dr. Wo
May 7, 2025 · 42 min
Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb
In 1980, influential paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that “we can know that evolution has happened by the imperfections and oddities that life shows.” But is that true? And what if we take a closer look at those assumed
May 5, 2025 · 34 min
How Darwinism Has Corroded Western Culture
On this ID the Future from the archive, hear the second half of Discovery Institute’s John West’s talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, on how Darwinism has corroded Western culture. In this portion he examines the morally poison
May 2, 2025 · 17 min
David Klinghoffer Reads From His New Book Plato’s Revenge
On this ID The Future, science writer David Klinghoffer reads from his new book Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome, now available from Discovery Institute Press. This is a compact book, but it’s the story of a very big idea, and on
Apr 30, 2025 · 20 min
Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer
Youre likely familiar with the genetic revolution — the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. But we are now overdue for another and more profound revolution in science, one youve likely heard very l
Apr 28, 2025 · 24 min
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, West explores how Darwi
Apr 25, 2025 · 20 min
Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge
On this episode of ID The Future, hosts Andrew McDiarmid and Nathan Jacobson continue their conversation with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. In this segment, Sanger explains how his philosophy to decentralize the worlds knowledge plays into science a
Apr 23, 2025 · 36 min

Intelligent Design the Future

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

Michael Denton on the Primal Patterns That Govern Living Systems

Can Evolutionary Processes Explain Human Creativity?

Why Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

New Study Shatters the 1% Human-Chimp Difference Myth

Register Now: HS Biology and Chemistry With Intelligent Design Integration

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism

Johannes Kepler, the Book of Nature, and the Language of Mathematics

Stephen Meyer: There’s a “Powerful Signal of Design” in Nature

The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

How Darwinism Has Corroded Western Culture

David Klinghoffer Reads From His New Book Plato’s Revenge

Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge