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
On the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview
On this episode of ID the Future out of the vault, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about his book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russel…
00:15:45 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Stephen Meyer on the Explanatory Power of Intelligent Design
On this episode of ID The Future, we’re sharing the second half of an interview between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and author and radio/podcast host Justin Brierley. The interview delve…
00:39:08 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Stephen Meyer on the Intellectual Shift Away from Darwinism
On this episode of ID The Future, we’re sharing the first half of an interview between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and author and radio/podcast host Justin Brierley. The interview delves…
00:48:16 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Could Carl Sagan’s Methods Be Used to Make Design Inferences?
On today’s ID The Future out of the vault, host Robert Crowther welcomes philosopher of science Paul Nelson to explore an intriguing tension in the thinking of famous scientist and science popularize…
00:33:07 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Metals: The Gifts That Keep On Giving
A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. Can a Darwinian process take the credit? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a two…
00:27:53 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Metals & Life: A Finely Tuned Alliance
Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid be…
00:28:49 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
The Gollum Effect: When Guarding Research Impedes Progress
On this ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with historian and philosopher of science Michael Keas to discuss a recent article at Times Higher Education, “My Precious! How…
00:17:26 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
Richard Weikart Reads From His New Book Unnatural Death
On this episode, Dr. Richard Weikart reads selections from his new book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. Dr. Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State U…
00:30:34 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
Richard Weikart: 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 this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to his…
00:35:09 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
Three Types of Science, pt. 3: Fantasy Science
On this episode of ID the Future out of our vault, biophysicist Kirk Durston completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy scie…
00:16:28 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences
Materialist philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote that "only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation…be safely built.” But is this worldview of scientific materialis…
00:43:05 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”
On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez back to the program to read and discuss his poem "Totality: A Celestial Theater," written to commemorate the total so…
00:28:04 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Three Types of Science, pt. 2: Inferential Science
On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid continues a three-part conversation with biophysicist and philosopher Kirk Durston. The topic is Durston’s article series unpa…
00:19:46 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Can AI Help Us Assess Neo-Darwinism?
Can artificial intelligence be applied to the scientific theory of Darwinian evolution to help us evaluate its strengths and weaknesses? On this episode of ID The Future, host Casey Luskin concludes …
00:19:17 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
Can Darwinian Evolution Be Rescued From Dogma?
If there's anything left to salvage from the Neo-Darwinian theory of life's origins, it must first be rescued from dogma. On this episode of ID The Future, host Casey Luskin begins a conversation wit…
00:26:26 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Three Types of Science, pt. 1: Experimental Science
On this episode of ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a three-part conversation with biophysicist and philosopher Kirk Durston. The pair discuss Durston's article series abo…
00:17:17 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift
Are we to credit an unguided evolutionary process for the gift of sleeping and waking? Or are these intricate systems further evidence of design? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid conclude…
00:22:08 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep
We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important, but many of us aren't sure exactly why. Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the p…
00:21:39 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
William Dembski on Why Intelligent Design Matters
On this ID the Future from the archive, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about …
00:24:35 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Giving Up Darwin’s Brilliant and Beautiful Theory
Five years ago, Yale University professor of computer science David Gelernter wrote that he was bidding farewell to neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory. Why would he take such a bold step? What convinc…
00:37:26 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
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