Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers
Is the natural world full of flawed, makeshift designs, as some critics of intelligent design have argued? Or are living things far more ing...
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Intelligent Design The Future
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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“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin
In June 1860, just seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, three men hotly debated the merits of Darwin's argu...
Co-Opting Purpose: How Materialists Redefine Biological Agency
Purpose has been a fundamental part of our understanding of nature for millennia. But the rise of scientific materialism and Darwinism saw p...
The Exclusion, and Return, of Purpose in Science
Purpose was once considered fundamental to understanding nature. But for the last few centuries, scientists committed to a Darwinian view of...
Landmark Origins Book Conclusions Are Even Stronger Today
On this classic ID the Future out of the vault, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews Roger Olsen, co-author of the groundbreaking book The...
How Engineering Logic Unlocks Biological Mysteries
Intelligent design is fundamentally a theory of design detection. But in addition to helping us evaluate models that best explain past event...
From Origins to Operations: The Broad Utility of Intelligent Design
You may already know that an intelligent design framework can help us empirically detect whether an outcome in nature exhibits properties th...
Servers & Souls: Cloud Computing and Personal Identity
Like many, you may be storing important files and photos in the cloud. But just where is this magical cloud? How is it powered? Is it safe?...
How an ID Framework Guides the Search for Habitable Worlds
How rare is Planet Earth in the vastness of the cosmos? Will we find other planets in space that could possibly harbor life? A new space tel...
I Helped Build NASA’s Latest Space Telescope. Here’s What It Will Do.
A new space telescope was recently launched by NASA. What will it look for? Why do we need another telescope exploring the heavens? And how...
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...
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...