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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Jul 23, 2025 · 34 min
Exploring Intelligent Design: A Conversation with Casey Luskin and Kristin Marais
Does intelligent design have a better answer for the origin of the universe and the origin of life than the standard neo-Darwinian explanation? Today, we’ll enjoy the second half of a conversation about the scientific theory of intelligent design with ge
Jul 21, 2025 · 32 min
Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose
Is intelligent design a viable scientific theory? Why do some still insist on calling it pseudoscience? Maybe you’re wondering these things yourself, or have a friend, family member, or co-worker who has these types of questions. On this ID The Future, s
Jul 19, 2025 · 22 min
Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic
We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute and namesake of the Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Today, we bring you the secon
Jul 16, 2025 · 48 min
A Tale of Two Doctors: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science
On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Stephen Iacoboni, an award-winning cancer researcher and medical oncologist with 40 years of experience, to discuss the undeniable element of purpose in all living things. The conversation dives deep in
Jul 14, 2025 · 22 min
How Evolutionary Thinking Delayed a Nobel Prize Discovery
For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk, a paradigm that long dissuaded researchers from studying these little-understood portions of the genome. But a series of discoveries starting in 2008 has forc
Jul 12, 2025 · 19 min
Walter Bradley on The Mystery of Life’s Origin
We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute and namesake of the Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. So today, out of our archive,
Jul 9, 2025 · 19 min
“Do You Believe in Evolution?” Stephen Meyer Responds to Joe Rogan
Do you believe in evolution? That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. But the first steps are clarifying what the word “evolution” actually means and why unguided evolutiona
Jul 8, 2025 · 28 min
Examples of Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems
Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft, resulting in a trademark style that sets them apart from others. Can recognizable patterns of thinking also be found in natures design? On this ep
Jul 4, 2025 · 23 min
Dis-Inherit the Wind: Film Debunks Hollywood’s Icon of Evolution
On this ID The Future from the vault, host David Boze interviews filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, which pitched D
Jul 2, 2025 · 28 min
How Intelligent Design Has Flourished In Spite of the Scopes Effect
The Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 has cast a long shadow over the evolution debate in the last century, thanks in large part to the Hollywood film Inherit the Wind, which caricatured the trial and promoted stereotypes that still persist today. On this ID T
Jun 30, 2025 · 22 min
A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes is Alive and Well
The Scopes “Monkey” Trial Turns 100 this year. According to secularist legend, the Scopes trial represented a great showdown between ignorant, fundamentalist religion and enlightened, scientific progress. But what really went down in 1925? And a hundred
Jun 27, 2025 · 46 min
Meyer, Behe, and Lennox on Science, God, and Darwin’s Other Doubt
Every Friday we pull a gem out of our archive for those who may not have enjoyed it yet. On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Oxford’s John Lennox, Lehigh University’s Michael Behe, and Darwin’s Doubt author Stephen Meyer continue a probing convers
Jun 25, 2025 · 24 min
Artist Jody Sjogren on How Intelligent Agents Bring Ideas to Life
How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Today, medical illustrator and artist Jody Sjogren joins host Andrew McDiarmid to discuss the similarities bet
Jun 23, 2025 · 42 min
Artist Jody Sjogren on Illustrating the Icons of Evolution
Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late nineteenth century. Icons of evolution have appeared in textbooks, journals, magazines, and other visual media to promote a materialist worldview that is light on evidence and w
Jun 20, 2025 · 41 min
Behe, Meyer, & Lennox: The Evidence for Design is Growing
On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Uncommon Knowledge’s Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of life and the univer
Jun 18, 2025 · 22 min
Brian Miller on Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens
Can viewing life as designed enhance scientific research? Today, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Dr. Mill
Jun 16, 2025 · 41 min
Denyse O’Leary: Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind
Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? On todays ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with journalist Denyse OLeary about surprising findings out of neuroscience that shatter materialist assumptions. OLeary is
Jun 13, 2025 · 18 min
Stephen Meyer: God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos
Do we have to choose between science and God? Absolutely not, says philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer. In fact, theistic ideas about nature actually inspired the rise of modern science. On today’s ID the Future from the archive, Return of the God H
Jun 11, 2025 · 21 min
Michael Egnor Reads From His New Book The Immortal Mind
On this ID The Future, Dr. Michael Egnor reads the Introduction to his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeons Case for the Existence of the Soul, now available from Worthy Books. In this reading, Dr. Egnor shares his journey from being a medical stu
Jun 9, 2025 · 29 min
Jay Richards on the “Ground Clearing” Work of Jonathan Wells
Before the positive case for intelligent design can be received effectively, the case against the Darwinian evolutionary mechanism must be clearly laid out. One man who was instrumental in this initial ground clearing operation was biologist Dr. Jonathan

Intelligent Design the Future

Exploring Intelligent Design: A Conversation with Casey Luskin and Kristin Marais

Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose

Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic

A Tale of Two Doctors: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

How Evolutionary Thinking Delayed a Nobel Prize Discovery

Walter Bradley on The Mystery of Life’s Origin

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” Stephen Meyer Responds to Joe Rogan

Examples of Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

Dis-Inherit the Wind: Film Debunks Hollywood’s Icon of Evolution

How Intelligent Design Has Flourished In Spite of the Scopes Effect

A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes is Alive and Well

Meyer, Behe, and Lennox on Science, God, and Darwin’s Other Doubt

Artist Jody Sjogren on How Intelligent Agents Bring Ideas to Life

Artist Jody Sjogren on Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

Behe, Meyer, & Lennox: The Evidence for Design is Growing

Brian Miller on Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

Denyse O’Leary: Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

Stephen Meyer: God Behind the Birth of Science and the Cosmos

Michael Egnor Reads From His New Book The Immortal Mind

Jay Richards on the “Ground Clearing” Work of Jonathan Wells