

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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Nov 11, 2024 • 39min
The Deniable Darwin: Stephen Meyer Interviews David Berlinski
On this ID The Future, philosopher of science and bestselling author Stephen Meyer invites us to join him for an intimate conversation with one of his dearest friends and longest-standing colleagues: mathematician, writer, and thinker Dr. David Berlinski. The occasion for the exchange was a recent gathering of Discovery Institute supporters and colleagues in Cambridge, England. In Part 1, Berlinski shares the harrowing story of how his parents survived the Holocaust and immigrated to New York, how he learned mathematics, and when he began to take an interest in the mathematical challenges to Darwinian evolution.
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Nov 8, 2024 • 19min
Michael Behe and Michael Medved Explore Secrets of the Cell
On today’s ID the Future from the archive, veteran radio host Michael Medved interviews biologist Michael Behe about Behe’s visually stunning YouTube series, Secrets of The Cell. Behe summarizes one of the key messages of the video series, namely that everything from the life-essential blood clotting system to a myriad of crucial protein structures in our bodies increasingly appear to be far beyond the reach of blind evolutionary mechanisms to build. Instead they appear to be the work of planning and purpose, which is the purview of mind. Learn more about Behe's series and the compelling evidence for intelligent design.
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Nov 6, 2024 • 27min
Private School Students Share Their Experience Learning About Intelligent Design
At Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, we love connecting teachers and students with ID resources and
encouraging them to follow the evidence wherever it leads. On today's ID The Future, you'll hear from a group of 10th grade biology students at a private school in North Carolina as they share their experience of learning about the evidence for intelligent design. Their teacher is a graduate of our CSC summer seminar program, where she learned in depth about the scientific evidence for intelligent design. Inspired to bring what she learned to her students, she used the Discovering Intelligent Design textbook with her 10th grade science class to offer a more complete and compelling biology course.
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Nov 4, 2024 • 20min
How the Origin of Our Digits Points to Process of Foresight
Let's talk about your digits. No, not your phone number - your fingers and toes, those dangling things on the ends of our hands and feet! Ever wondered how they form during embryonic development? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes back Dr. Jonathan McLatchie to discuss the incredible process of apoptosis that shapes our fingers and toes, and why the operation is better explained by intelligent design than a stepwise evolutionary process.
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Nov 1, 2024 • 19min
At The Origin of Life, There’s No Shortcut to Energy-Harnessing
On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, an episode of the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. Tune in to learn more!
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Oct 30, 2024 • 17min
Richard Weikart: Promoting Life in a Culture of Death
The urge to help people kill themselves has intensified in recent decades, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? On this ID The Future, historian and author Dr. Richard Weikart joins veteran radio and podcast host Dr. Jerry Newcombe to discuss how the evolutionary ethic has undermined the value of human life, the topic of his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing.
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Oct 28, 2024 • 32min
How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss
Join Casey Luskin, an attorney and expert in intelligent design theory at the Discovery Institute, as he unpacks how to robustly defend intelligent design. He addresses misconceptions, clarifying that ID isn't just a religious belief and discussing its scientific basis. Luskin presents compelling examples of complexity in biology and critiques evolutionary theory, particularly the concept of co-option. He also tackles common objections, revealing the surprising functionality of 'junk DNA' to bolster the case for intelligent causation in nature.

Oct 25, 2024 • 26min
Energy Harnessing: An Achilles Heel for Origin of Life
Rob Stadler, an origin-of-life specialist and biomedical engineer, dives into the perplexing issue of energy harnessing essential for life's emergence. He questions how prebiotic chemicals could have transformed raw energy into useful forms needed for self-replicating cells without the sophisticated machinery like ATP synthase. The conversation also critiques the Miller-Urey experiment, revealing its inability to synthesize life from amino acids through electric sparks. Join Stadler as he unveils the intricate challenges of converting energy on prebiotic Earth.

Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 19min
Jonathan Wells on How to Defeat Zombie Science
In this engaging conversation, Dr. Jonathan Wells, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and author of "Zombie Science," dissects the concept of 'zombie science'—outdated scientific ideas clinging to life despite substantial critique. He critiques the evolutionary framework, challenges key narratives like the hippo-to-whale transition, and emphasizes empirical evidence over consensus theory. Wells also reflects on the impact of Darwinism on faith, particularly within Christianity, advocating for intelligent design as a fresh perspective on life’s origins.

Oct 21, 2024 • 24min
Progress Since the Sternberg Smithsonian Saga 20 Years Ago
In 2004, Smithsonian Institute scientist Dr. Richard Sternberg was cancelled for daring to publish a paper by Dr. Stephen Meyer supportive of intelligent design in a peer-reviewed journal. On this ID The Future, writer and teacher Daniel Witt joins us to reflect on the controversy. Witt explains the rhetorical strategies Darwinists have used to deride intelligent design. He also reports on an encouraging trend of scientists willing to stand up to the censors and bullies who get in the way of pursuing the evidence where it leads.
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