The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now
On this ID the Future our of the archive, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews chemist Charles Thaxton about a seminal 1984 book he co-auth...
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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, weekly podcast providing you w...
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How Intelligent Engineering Can Solve the Electromagnetic Spectrum Crisis
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Cente...
Restoring the Natural Theology Tradition That Fueled Modern Science
What is the state of the debate over evolution and intelligent design in the UK? And how will Discovery Institute's new Cambridge initiative...
Sunlight And Water Are Uniquely Fit to Sustain Life
If the sun didn't power the photosynthesis of green plants, we wouldn't be breathing right now. And without the finely tuned properties of w...
Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real
What is the story of everything? Is there a scientific and philosophical basis for meaning? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid co...
A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory
Why are we here? Does life, or the universe, mean anything? And if it does, what? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid explores tho...
Why Carbon is Finely Tuned for Life
In his book Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe writes that in order to understand the barriers to evolution, we have to “bite the b...
Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design
By now, you’re likely familiar with the multiverse hypothesis, which is actually just one of dozens of cosmological models proposed to expla...
Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars: Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning
You’re likely familiar with the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, and you may be aware that there are several cosmological model...
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 Cente...
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 flo...
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 impr...
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 Sh...
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 Th...
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 Shapiro's 2019 interview with philosophe...
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 Cente...
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 intelligen...
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 thi...
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...
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? That's a rare combination that comes together in a new...