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
Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life
For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial a…
00:37:27 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul
On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is thrilled to welcome back renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor to continue discussing his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the E…
00:37:10 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Michael Denton on the Primal Patterns That Govern Living Systems
On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, biochemist Dr. Michael Denton discusses the implications of recurring animal body plans, arguing that they are predetermined types that point away from…
00:15:44 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Can Evolutionary Processes Explain Human Creativity?
On this ID The Future, we're sharing a conversation that first aired on Mind Matters News, another podcast from Discovery Institute that focuses on the intersection of artificial and natural intellig…
00:38:53 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Why Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe
We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is – blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. But what if that perspective is fundamentally challenged by the very laws of physic…
00:25:57 |
Mon 26 May 2025
New Study Shatters the 1% Human-Chimp Difference Myth
When scientists originally studied the chimp genome, they used the human genome as a template. This scaffolding technique gave birth to the popular claim that chimp and human genomes are only 1% diff…
00:32:51 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Register Now: HS Biology and Chemistry With Intelligent Design Integration
On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Kristin Marais and Summer Lile, two passionate instructors from Discovery Institute Academy, to discuss their high school biology and chemistry c…
00:32:30 |
Wed 21 May 2025
The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism
Is your mind more than just your brain? Does the soul actually exist? These questions have been pondered for millennia. What does the latest scientific research suggest? On this ID The Future, renown…
00:28:45 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Johannes Kepler, the Book of Nature, and the Language of Mathematics
On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, Andrew McDiarmid talks with science historian Michael Keas about pioneering mathematical astronomer Johannes Kepler, based on Keas’s book Unbelievab…
00:15:52 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Stephen Meyer: There’s a “Powerful Signal of Design” in Nature
On this ID The Future, enjoy the concluding half of a remarkable and candid discussion on the limits of Darwinian evolution and the arguments for intelligent design. The conversation, recorded in 201…
00:34:15 |
Wed 14 May 2025
The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution
Does the math behind Darwinian evolution add up? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to enjoy the first half of a remarkable and candid discussion about the limits of Darwinian e…
00:30:13 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory
On this episode of ID the Future from our archive, Dr. Paul Nelson talks with Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, retired geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Germany, about ra…
00:16:12 |
Fri 09 May 2025
More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda
Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering and the result of intelligent design? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid con…
00:42:41 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb
In 1980, influential paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that “we can know that evolution has happened by the imperfections and oddities that life shows.” But is that tr…
00:34:24 |
Mon 05 May 2025
How Darwinism Has Corroded Western Culture
On this ID the Future from the archive, hear the second half of Discovery Institute’s John West’s talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, on how Darwinism has corroded Western …
00:17:49 |
Fri 02 May 2025
David Klinghoffer Reads From His New Book Plato’s Revenge
On this ID The Future, science writer David Klinghoffer reads from his new book Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome, now available from Discovery Institute Press. This is a comp…
00:20:59 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer
You're likely familiar with the genetic revolution — the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. But we are now overdue for another and more profo…
00:24:45 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea
On this ID the Future from the vault, catch the first half of a public talk by political scientist John West on how Darwinism has poisoned Western culture. In the lecture, delivered at the Dallas Con…
00:20:23 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge
On this episode of ID The Future, hosts Andrew McDiarmid and Nathan Jacobson continue their conversation with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. In this segment, Sanger explains how his philosophy to…
00:36:08 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Skeptic to Believer: Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger’s Intellectual Journey
On this ID The Future, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joins hosts Andrew McDiarmid and Nathan Jacobson to delve into his personal evolution from longtime skeptical philosopher to belief in God. Af…
00:40:50 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
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