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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Dec 10, 2025 · 39 min
When Engineering Meets Biology: More From Our Scientist Roundtable
A Quick Message From Host Andrew McDiarmid: Hey thanks for joining me! Did you know that although ID The Future is free content, it’s not free to produce? If you’re enjoying the interviews, commentaries, and readings you hear on the podcast, would you co
Dec 8, 2025 · 21 min
Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body
Its easy to be blown away by the examples of engineering prowess in the human body. But it can be challenging to turn that evidence into a robust argument for intelligent design you can share with skeptical friends and colleagues. To help you learn to do
Dec 6, 2025 · 27 min
Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World
Is natural evil an argument against intelligent design? And is human evil more consistent with naturalism or theism? On this classic ID The Future episode, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Eric Hedin about his article Thoughts of Evil in a Designed
Dec 3, 2025 · 26 min
Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Laws of Nature
On today’s ID The Future, host Brian Miller concludes a two-part conversation with physicist Aaron Zimmer and mathematician Ellie Feder, hosts of the Physics to God podcast, as they critique current explanations for the laws of nature and argue for an in
Dec 1, 2025 · 23 min
Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design
You might already have heard that the laws that govern our universe are finely tuned to allow for our existence. But beneath the special numbers of the universe lies an even deeper mystery: the laws of nature themselves. On todays ID The Future, join hos
Nov 28, 2025 · 24 min
Thus Saith the Science: C.S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism
Progress is an appealing idea, but what happens when we do not all desire the same things? On this ID The Future, we mark the 60th anniversary of the death of British writer C. S. Lewis as host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a conversation with Dr. John West
Nov 26, 2025 · 45 min
Get to Know This Mathematician’s Simple, Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design
No amount of small, blind, and gradual changes to the steam engine could ever have produced the internal combustion engine. To get to that fundamentally new type of engine, an infusion of new information was required. That analogy can be applied to the o
Nov 24, 2025 · 41 min
Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse
Failed ideas tend to eventually crumble under the weight of contrary evidence. Is modern evolutionary theory heading for the same fate? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks to biochemist Michael J. Behe about his core arguments for intelli
Nov 22, 2025 · 22 min
C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism
What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, we mark the 60th anniversary of the death of British writer C. S. Lewis as host Andrew McDiarmid begi
Nov 19, 2025 · 32 min
Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism
Did God use evolution to create life? On this ID The Future, we’re sharing the second half of a recent conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin that originally aired on the Truthful Hope podcast. Casey is critiquing theistic evolution, the view that God used e
Nov 17, 2025 · 30 min
Did God Use Evolution to Produce Life? Why Theistic Evolution Fails
Some people attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of lifes origins by combining the two. Theistic evolution is the view that God used evolutionary mechanisms to create life. But does this view stand up to scrutiny? Tod
Nov 14, 2025 · 28 min
Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide
If the phrase Bayesian calculus makes you run for the hills, youre not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first, but if you give it a little time, youll understand how useful it can be to evaluate the evidence for design in the natural world
Nov 12, 2025 · 48 min
Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail
Heres an experienced scientist who thinks YOU should have the power to settle the question of design in nature, not the scientific experts. Why? Because the majority of scientific authorities are committed scientific materialists, a view that hinders unb
Nov 10, 2025 · 43 min
Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature For You.
What you believe about the origin of life and the universe affects everything you do. So its crucial that you decide for yourself whether the design thats evident in nature is the product of a designer or the outcome of a blind, unguided process. Today o
Nov 7, 2025 · 15 min
Why Scientific Materialism is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Is the world a good place? Is truth relative? Can beauty be defined? On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host David Klinghoffer speaks with Dr. Ann Gauger, Director of Science Communication and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Cent
Nov 5, 2025 · 39 min
Robert Marks Remembers ID and Tech Pioneer Walter Bradley
In 1984, three scientists dared to probe the mystery of lifes origin by putting the prevailing theories of prebiotic and chemical evolution to the test. One of those men was engineer Walter Bradley. Today, Dr. Robert J. Marks joins host Andrew McDiarmid
Nov 3, 2025 · 32 min
Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body
Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. These problems involve multiple coordinated, integrated systems that have to come online, not gradually, but all at once and at just the right time a
Oct 31, 2025 · 37 min
Frightening Abuses of Science with Wesley J. Smith
Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. Theyre playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America. On this episode of ID
Oct 29, 2025 · 39 min
Neil Thomas: “This Darwinism Business, It’s Rubbish, Isn’t It?”
For decades, British professor and author Neil Thomas was a card-carrying Darwinist. It wasnt until after he retired from academia that he had the repose to think about things objectively. Then one day, in a scientific flash of inspiration, he came to th
Oct 27, 2025 · 38 min
Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws & Historical Roots of Darwinism
It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on purely scientific grounds. There are other reasons beyond empirical science that gave it broad acceptance and enduring popularity. On todays I

Intelligent Design the Future

When Engineering Meets Biology: More From Our Scientist Roundtable

Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Laws of Nature

Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

Thus Saith the Science: C.S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism

Get to Know This Mathematician’s Simple, Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse

C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

Did God Use Evolution to Produce Life? Why Theistic Evolution Fails

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature For You.

Why Scientific Materialism is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

Robert Marks Remembers ID and Tech Pioneer Walter Bradley

Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body

Frightening Abuses of Science with Wesley J. Smith

Neil Thomas: “This Darwinism Business, It’s Rubbish, Isn’t It?”

Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws & Historical Roots of Darwinism