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 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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 231
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Brian Miller on the Return of Natural Theology
Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. But how does his theory’s explanatory power measure up to recent…
00:50:40 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
How to Respond to Common Criticisms of Intelligent Design
God of the gaps. Lucy as human ancestor. Co-option to explain away irreducible complexity. Perhaps you've heard some of the most common objections to intelligent design, but do you know how to adequa…
00:29:53 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Casey Luskin on the Core Concepts of Intelligent Design
Sometimes, it’s good to go back to the basics. Whether you’re brand new to intelligent design or you’re looking for a way to share the basics with a friend or family member, we’ve got you covered tod…
00:43:30 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself
Today's episode of ID The Future again spotlights the book Science After Babel. Author, philosopher, and mathematician David Berlinski and host Andrew McDiarmid conclude a three-part conversation tea…
00:24:30 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes
We all know people who have suffered with cancer. It's a major affliction of our modern world and many scientists are studying it closely to find a cure. Karl Krueger is one such scientist who has sp…
00:45:53 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
From Fantastic Four to First Causes: Why Science Has Eclipsed Darwin
If you noticed a copy of Charles Darwin’s famous nineteenth-century volume On The Origin of Species in someone's house, what would you think? Perhaps they’re committed materialists. Perhaps they simp…
00:28:18 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
David Berlinski Challenges Prevailing Beliefs in Modern Biology and Physics
On today’s ID the Future, Science After Babel author David Berlinski continues discussing his newly released book from Discovery Institute Press. In this conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid, Berl…
00:23:14 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart
Meaningful communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. It's one feature that makes life…
00:29:53 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life
What if life isn’t just a collection of molecules bumping around? What if every living thing, from a single cell to a human being, is doing something much more surprising—processing information and c…
00:22:45 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
How Modern Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel
On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid rings up author and philosopher David Berlinski in Paris to discuss his book Science After Babel. Berlinski is at his cultivated best …
00:26:04 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
On Suffering, Intelligent Design Provides a Better Lens Than Darwinism
The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Today, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Tova Forman ab…
00:30:08 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins
The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing "one-sided, divisive political narratives." But American history isn’t the only domain in which the Sm…
00:30:14 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Listen to the Prologue to Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt
On today's episode out of the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid narrates the prologue to Stephen Meyer's New York Times bestselling book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosion of Animal Life and the Case for Int…
00:21:54 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
From Dead Ends to Design: Meyer & Tour on Life’s Information Code
On today's episode, enjoy the second half of a discussion between philosopher of science Dr. Steven Meyer and synthetic organic chemist Dr. James Tour about the origin of life and the explanatory pow…
00:40:03 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin: Stephen Meyer & James Tour
How did life originate? Does Darwin’s theory of evolution have an answer for the origin of life? On this ID The Future, enjoy the first half of an insightful conversation between philosopher of scien…
00:30:17 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
We are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton
On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, biochemist and medical doctor Michael Denton continues his conversation with host Sarah Chaffee about his book Children of Light: The Astonishing Prop…
00:12:38 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Bill Dembski: Pursuing Truth and Trust in AI and LLMs
How does AI stack up when it comes to accurately representing the theory of intelligent design? Today, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski about the re…
00:31:00 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Can AI Accurately Portray Intelligent Design?
How accurately do AI models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Bard portray the theory of intelligent design? Can large language models rise above the biases of sources like Wikipedia to help level the playing …
00:37:25 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Michael Denton Explains How Light Sustains Human Life
On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, biochemist and medical doctor Michael Denton explores a “miraculous convergence of properties” for life. The topic is Denton's book Children of Ligh…
00:15:11 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
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 ab…
00:34:27 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
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