Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving — Pt. 2
On this episode of ID the Future, the second in a series, host Andrew McDiarmid reviews three more displays of design in nature.
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Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving — Pt. 1
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid looks at three new discoveries in nature that shout design. The cone snail has a harpoon as fast as a speeding bullet. Researchers are looking at it for design ideas for robots and medical devices. The humble dandelion’s seeds are so optimized for lift and flight time that scientists wonder about borrowing its design for parachutes. And there’s a species, the mantis shrimp, whose larvae have “flashlights” in their eyes similar to advanced optics designed by human researchers. See more on these design wonders at Evolution News.
An Excerpt from Marcos Eberlin’s Groundbreaking New Book Foresight
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose by distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin. In this excerpt, Eberlin introduces the necessity of foresight and planning in nature by showing how every cell needs a sophisticated barrier around it that knows how to keep harmful substances out and let helpful ones in. That membrane’s job is complicated by the fact that oxygen, like many other substances, can be harmful or helpful depending on when, where, and how much. So even the very first cells’ success could only be explained by a designer’s foresight. Foresight, it’s worth noting, has been endorsed by three Nobel Laureate scientists. It’s available for purchase at Amazon and other stores.
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Darwinism and Politics: Bruce Chapman’s New Book Politicians
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from chapter 12 of Discovery Institute co-founder Bruce Chapman’s new book, Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others. In this excerpt, Chapman argues that Darwinism has disfigured and demoralized political life in Europe and America for more than a century.
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Human Evolution Narrative Crumbles Under Weight of Six Discoveries
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid presents German paleontologist Günter Bechly’s recent critique of ape-to-man evolution. Listen in to learn about six discoveries in 2017 that throw the standard evolutionary account of human origins into chaos. Perhaps the most striking of these: the Cretan footprints.
Read More ›Conservatives and Liberals Oppose Middlebury College Thought Police
On this episode of ID the Future, learn about a recent Middlebury college incident in which viewpoint intolerance led to violence, and a statement of support for academic freedom written by two professors on opposite ends of the political spectrum – and signers include Discovery Institute’s John West, Bruce Chapman and Steve Buri.
Read More ›How Consensus Can Blind Science
On today’s episode of ID the Future, learn about how consensus can blind science. This podcast features some interesting comments from Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb on the Mayans and obstacles to scientific progress. Loeb notes, “The only way to work out whether we are on the wrong path is to encourage competing interpretations of the known data.”
Read More ›A Billion Genes and Not One Beneficial Mutation
Evolutionists often speak in generalities about beneficial mutations. Such mutations may be rare, we’re assured, but they happen, and when they do, natural selection is there to capture, preserve and pass them along. All right, we now have some data to consider. We can put a number to the frequency of beneficial mutations in a very large sample. The number is …
Read More ›Hear Audiobook Prologue to Darwin’s Doubt!
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid narrates the prologue to Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosion of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. HarperOne will soon move into production on audiobook versions of Darwin’s Doubt and Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design.
Read More ›Common Objections to ID: Intelligent Design Isn’t Science
On this episode of ID the Future, hear why the often-heard claim that intelligent design isn’t science is false, as Andrew McDiarmid explains the top reasons why ID is science.
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