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
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…
00:32:31 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
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…
00:22:59 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
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 purpo…
00:48:13 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
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…
00:22:23 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
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…
00:19:54 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
“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…
00:19:31 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
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 …
00:28:53 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
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 …
00:23:56 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
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 pr…
00:28:04 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
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 prog…
00:22:08 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
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’…
00:46:14 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
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 join…
00:24:49 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
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 …
00:42:52 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
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 …
00:41:34 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
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 a…
00:22:44 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
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 today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with journalist Denyse O'Leary about surprising findings out of neur…
00:41:34 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
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 toda…
00:18:57 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
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 Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul, now available from Worthy Books. In this readin…
00:21:57 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
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 initi…
00:29:56 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World
On this ID the Future from the archive, host Jonathan Witt speaks to molecular biologist and professor Dustin Van Hofwegen about his research into the engineered complexity in microbial life. Hofwege…
00:22:36 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
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