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Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 7, 2021

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Albert Einstein, Atheism, Big Bang, Bill Gates, Biological Information, carbon resonance, Charles Darwin, cosmological constant, cosmology, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, eternal universe, expanding universe model, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning, fine-tuning parameters, founders of science, Fred Hoyle, genetic information, God hypothesis, Goldilocks universe, imago dei, Intelligent Design, intelligibility of nature, Karl Marx, Materialism, Michael Medved, New Atheists, nihilism, origins, philosophical materialism, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Sigmund Freud, Signature in the Cell, steady state model, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism}

Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer on the Return of the God Hypothesis

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 7, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, a recent conversation between radio show host Michael Medved and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer as they discuss Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. Listen in as Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, provides a swift flyover of 500 years of scientific history, in which he traces the rise, fall, and rise again of a paradigm Meyer refers to as “the God hypothesis.” To learn more about Meyer’s new book and see the growing list of enthusiastic reviews from top scientists, go to ReturnoftheGodHypothesis.com.

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Eric Hedin

Date
March 3, 2021

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abiogenesis, Academic Freedom, academic integrity, Atheism, Ball State University, cancel culture, censorship, cosmology, fine tuning, Intelligent Design, origin of life, origin of the universe, physics, the Big Bang, Theism}

Physicist Eric Hedin Discusses His New ID Book, Canceled Science

_{Eric Hedin

March 3, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See. Host Robert Crowther and author Eric Hedin begin by revisiting the atheist attack on Professor Hedin and his Ball State University course, the Boundaries of Science. The course was an interdisciplinary honors course exposing students to some basic astrophysics and cosmology, as well as to some of the big questions raised by such discoveries as the Big Bang and the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of physics for life. The course included mention of world-leading scientists who saw evidence of design in some of these findings, as well as mention of scientists who denied any evidence of design in nature. Atheist Jerry Coyne and the Freedom from Religion Foundation charged Hedin with infusing religion into the course, and soon the controversy spilled over into the national news. Hear Hedin tell his side of the story, followed by a quick flyover of some of the evidence for design Hedin explores in the new book. Hedin earned his PhD in experimental plasma physics from the University of Washington and conducted post-doctoral research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Canceled Science is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.

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William A. Dembski

Date
February 15, 2021

Tagged
Atheism, Cambridge University Press, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, evolutionary theory, Harvest House Publisher, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Materialism, No Free Lunch, Phillip Johnson, philosophical materialism, Science and faith, scientific revolutions, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, Walter Bradley, Winston Ewert}

Bill Dembski Teases the 2021 Dallas ID Conference

_{William A. Dembski

February 15, 2021

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On this ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski talks with host Robert Crowther about his return to the intelligent design arena and what he’s been up to during his time away from the front lines of the ID movement. He also gives a sneak preview of the talk he plans to give at this Saturday’s Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. The February 20 conference is open to both in-person and live online attendance. To learn more about this exciting event, and to register, go here.

3d rendering of pink jellyfish floating in the dark blue ocean background with sunlight.

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Date
November 9, 2020

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agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, consciousness, emergent property, epiphenomena, Evolution, final causes, genetic mutations, God, idealism, instinct, Intelligent Design, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, meta-cognitive, Natural Selection, organizing principles, panpsychism, philosophical materialism, pre-meditation, random mutations, randomness, self-reflection, teleology, What Darwin Got Wrong}

The Evolution (or not) of Consciousness

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On this ID the Future neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? This is a guest episode borrowed with permission from Mind Matters, a podcast of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

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Author
John Lennox

Date
November 2, 2020

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Against the Tide, Atheism, DNA, explanatory power, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, Gospel of John, image of God, imago dei, Intelligent Design, James Watson, Kevin Sorbo, logos, Materialism, Miller-Urey, Naturalism, panspermia, Philosophy, Psalm 19, Richard Dawkins, Scientism, sequence hypothesis, Theism, Thomas Nagel, worldviews}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Scientism

_{John Lennox

November 2, 2020

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On this ID the Future, host Stephen Meyer concludes his three-part conversation with Oxford mathematician and philosopher John Lennox on Lennox’s new film Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. Science depends on word, on logos, says Lennox, meaning the rational intelligibility of the universe. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, wished to disprove the need for God, but the language of DNA has turned out to be a signpost to an intelligence, Lennox comments, a logos, behind nature. Scientists still claim authority to pronounce against theism, but according to Lennox, such pronouncements come not from science but from a dogma known as scientism. Far from being “science vs. God,” it’s really a collision of competing worldviews. All this and more will be covered in the beautifully filmed Against the Tide, also starring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo, in theaters November 19. Go to https://againstthetide.movie/ to learn more and purchase tickets.

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John Lennox

Date
October 30, 2020

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Against the Tide, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Cambridge University, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Christianity, communism, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Georges LeMaitre, history of science, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Atheism

_{John Lennox

October 30, 2020

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On this ID the Future, John Lennox tells about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seeing what it does to rationality itself. In his continuing conversation with host and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, Lennox relates how in his interactions with famous religiously skeptical scientists, he emphasizes that the Judeo-Christian worldview did much to give us science. When skeptical scientists ask the Oxford mathematician and philosopher how Christianity could have anything to say to science, Lennox is ready with an answer. This is the second part of a three-part conversation in which Lennox discusses his new documentary, Against the Tide, filmed with actor and host Kevin Sorbo.

CAMBRIDGE, UK - JANUARY 18, 2015: Clare college inner yard view

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John Lennox

Date
October 28, 2020

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2084, Abolition of Man, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christopher Hitchens, John Polkinghorne, Kevin Sorbo, Larry Taunton, Lawrence Krauss, laws of nature, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, Naturalism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, New Atheists, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, Robert E. D. Clark, Sam Harris, Scientism, Stephen Hawking, The Blind Watchmaker, Theism, Thomas Nagel, University of Cambridge}

John Lennox and Steve Meyer Against the Tide, Pt. 1

_{John Lennox

October 28, 2020

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On this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Oxford University mathematician and thinker John Lennox begin a three-part conversation about Lennox’s upcoming documentary, Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. As Lennox explains, he grew up as the child of a uniquely non-sectarian Christian family in Northern Ireland, with parents who encouraged him to question broadly, read widely, and respect every person as a creature made in the image of God. He tells of his encounters with C. S. Lewis at Cambridge University, relates a humorous story in which atheist Peter Atkins gave him the title of one of his books, and describes his front-row seat as he watched the scientific atheism of the 1960s transform into the aggressive and contemptuous New Atheism of more recent years — a story that includes Lennox’s own debate with Richard Dawkins.

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 4, 2020

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__edited, afterlife, Alfred Kinsey, Atheism, Christopher Ryan, Cornell University, cultural decay, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, Ethics, Evolution, faith, Finding Darwin’s God, fine-tuning, George Coyne, God, human exceptionalism, human zoos, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, marriage, Materialism, moral relativism, National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Philip Skell, Privileged Species, purpose, Religion, scientific Materialism, Sex at Dawn, sexual ethics, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, soul, theistic evolutionist, Thomas Nagel}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

_{John G. West

May 4, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, 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 culture. In this portion he examines the morally poisoning effects of Darwinism on marriage, sexual ethics, and religion, such that virtually anything can be defended as OK, and no particular culture’s ethic is to be preferred over another. Humankind’s spiritual purpose has likewise been eroded. Yet West closes with hope: science in our generation is discovering more and more signs of intelligent design and purpose in nature, and young researchers are learning that materialism shouldn’t be the foregone conclusion of contemporary science.

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Kirk Durston

Date
March 19, 2020

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__edited, abduction, Atheism, Big Bang, creative story-telling, experimental science, fantastical science, fantasy science, historical science, Inference to the Best Explanation, inferential science, information density, Materialism, multiverse, origin of the universe, philosophy of science, Proteins, science fiction, Scientism}

Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism — Pt. 3 of 3

_{Kirk Durston

March 19, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Kirk Durston, a biophysicist focused on identifying high-information-density parts of proteins, completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy science makes inferential leaps so huge that virtually none of it is testable, either by the standards of experimental science or by those of the historical sciences, which reason to the best explanation by process of elimination. One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. As he insists, an imaginative story largely untethered from evidence and testing but told using math instead of literary devices is still an imaginative story untethered from evidence and testing. Scientism, “atheism dressed up in a lab coat,” can lead to fantasy science of this kind because it commits itself to materialistic conclusions for philosophical reasons, not scientific ones.

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David Berlinski

Date
December 6, 2019

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__edited, agnosticism, anti-Semitism, Atheism, Darwinism, demographic winter, entropy, Europe, Evolution, Jews and Muslims, nation state, nationalism, patriotism, second law of thermodynamics, Theism}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 3

_{David Berlinski

December 6, 2019

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Today’s episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Darwin skeptic David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. Here the pair discuss the fate of Europe. Then they turn again to science, and the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for Darwinism and, by implication, to any theory of biological origins restricted to purely mindless processes. Berlinski suggests that this poses a considerable challenge, tempting Robinson to ask Berlinski whether he still consider himself an agnostic.