Tag: Evolutionary Biology

Group of isolated cancer cells - 3d illustration

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Karl Krueger

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August 27, 2025

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, aboriginal design, cancer, cancer genomics, cancer mutation, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, devolutionary process, DNA, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, inhibitor mechanism, Intelligent Design, Karl Krueger, Materialism, Michael Behe, Mutation, National Cancer Institute, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, oncogenic mutation, oncology, tumor promoter, tumor promotion}

What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes

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August 27, 2025

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We all know people who have suffered with cancer. It's a major affliction of our modern world and many scientists are studying it closely to find a cure. Karl Krueger is one such scientist who has spent much of his career in cancer research. Today, host Casey Luskin speaks with Krueger about his work and what cancer can teach us about the limits of Darwinian processes. In his tenure at the National Cancer Institute, Krueger had a front-row seat to cancer research progress. After reviewing countless research projects and mountains of data, Krueger learned that cancer doesn't create new features at the molecular leveI, it degrades them. And breakage of aboriginal design is a hallmark of Darwinian processes. Krueger explains in this illuminating discussion. Read More ›

Asian woman under an umbrella in the rain.

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Eric Hedin

Date
August 18, 2025

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, biochemistry, biology, cognition, Darwinism, educated ignorance, Eric Hedin, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, information processing, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, living systems, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, non-living matter, physics, sentient beings}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

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August 18, 2025

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What if life isn’t just a collection of molecules bumping around? What if every living thing, from a single cell to a human being, is doing something much more surprising—processing information and communicating in complex, purposeful ways? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. He’s argued recently that the way living systems handle information—and communicate—is more likely evidence of intelligent design, not blind, undirected processes. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

Medical doctor or physician staff in white gown uniform with stethoscope in hospital or clinic service, healthcare concept.

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Author
Stephen Iacoboni

Date
July 16, 2025

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, Aristotle, cancer, Darwinism, doctor, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, genetics, genomics, Intelligent Design, intentionality, irreducible complexity, Materialism, materialistic science, mechanistic view, medical school, medicine, mobile genetic elements, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, Science, Science and faith, scientific atheism, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, teleology, telos, theoretical biology, Thomistic philosophy}

A Tale of Two Doctors: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

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July 16, 2025

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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 purpose in all living things. The conversation dives deep into the question of whether this purpose can be explained purely by the physical world, or if it points to a source beyond nature and science. Dr. Iacoboni shares his unique reconciliation between faith and science, as explored in his latest book, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose. He recounts his personal journey and profound divergence from the "mechanistic consensus" prevalent during his medical school years in the 1960s and 70s, which viewed organisms, including humans, as "biologic machines without souls, products of an unguided process." Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
July 14, 2025

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, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, ENCODE project, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, gene regulation, genome, genomics, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, junk dna debate, Materialism, microRNA, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, Nobel Prize, non-coding DNA, science stopper, The Myth of Junk DNA}

How Evolutionary Thinking Delayed a Nobel Prize Discovery

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July 14, 2025

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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. But a series of discoveries starting in 2008 has forced a major change in thinking about so-called "junk" DNA. Many examples of function have since been identified for the non-coding regions of DNA, and more are being uncovered each year. On this ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin reports on a pair of American biologists who were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of function in what was previously considered junk DNA. Read More ›

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 9, 2025

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, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, evolutionary time, Intelligent Design, Joe Rogan, macroevolution, Microevolution, mutation/selection mechanism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, sequence space, Stephen Meyer, waiting times problem}

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” Stephen Meyer Responds to Joe Rogan

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July 9, 2025

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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 “evolution” actually means and why unguided evolutionary processes are limited in power and scope. Today, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to revisit a segment from Dr. Stephen Meyer's 2023 interview with Joe Rogan. Meyer answers Rogan's probing question comprehensively. Yes, he tells Rogan, he believes in “real evolutionary processes,” but he also believes in the limitation of those evolutionary processes, and he takes several minutes to unpack and explain some of the challenges the standard neo-Darwinian account of life faces today. McDiarmid follows up by summarizing Meyer's response and sharing excerpts from Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt to explain the importance of Meyer's arguments to the debate over evolution. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
July 2, 2025

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, Academic Freedom, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, Scopes Anniversary, Scopes Centennial, Scopes Monkey Trial, Scopes Trial, Vanderbilt University}

How Intelligent Design Has Flourished In Spite of the Scopes Effect

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July 2, 2025

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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 promoted stereotypes that still persist today. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues a conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin about the long history of the Scopes effect in science and how intelligent design has managed to flourish in spite of it. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2025

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, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Eugenics, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, human evolution, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Materialism, Neo-Darwinism, Scopes Anniversary, Scopes Centennial, Scopes effect, Scopes Trial, Spirit of Scopes, stereotypes}

A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes is Alive and Well

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June 30, 2025

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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 progress. But what really went down in 1925? And a hundred years later, is science still suffering from the Scopes effect? On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin begins a conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid about the famous trial, the play and movie based on it that reinforced unrealistic stereotypes, and some of the flashpoints in science since the trial that have fanned the flames of the debate over evolution. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

Glowing jellyfish swim deep in blue sea. Medusa neon jellyfish fantasy in space cosmos among stars

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 27, 2025

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, biological machines, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, explanatory deficits, genetic code, information, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, Materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Robinson, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer, Behe, and Lennox on Science, God, and Darwin’s Other Doubt

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June 27, 2025

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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’s Doubt author Stephen Meyer continue a probing conversation with host Peter Robinson on what they see as the growing evidence for intelligent design and the scientific and philosophical problems with Darwinian materialism. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. This interview appears on ID The Future with the kind permission of Peter Robinson and the Hoover Institution. Read More ›

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Jody Sjogren

Date
June 23, 2025

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, ape human similarity, archeopteryx, artist, artistic license, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, developmental biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Haeckel's drawings, Haeckel’s Embryos, Homology, Icons of Evolution, illustrator, Intelligent Design, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Materialism, medical illustration, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life}

Artist Jody Sjogren on Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

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June 23, 2025

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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 a materialist worldview that is light on evidence and weighty on assumption. But in 2000, a book came along – Icons of Evolution – that finally exposed the myths, exaggerations, and outright fakery behind ten of the most infamous icons of Darwin’s theory. Today, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes the illustrator of that ground-breaking book, medical illustrator and artist Jody Sjogren, to discuss her experience of bringing these famous icons to life and working with author Dr. Jonathan Wells on the project. Jody also shares some of her memories of Dr. Wells, Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
June 18, 2025

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, Brian Miller, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinism, engineering, engineering perspective, engineering principles, Engineering Research Group, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, four-bar linkage system, future of biology, Intelligent Design, Materialism, Neo-Darwinism, optimal design, poor design, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Brian Miller on Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

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June 18, 2025

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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 are applied to the study of biological systems. Dr. Miller is part of a group that brings together engineers, scientists, and scholars to demonstrate how engineering principles, patterns, and tools can deepen the understanding of biology. The group hosts an annual Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, hosted by Discovery Institute, that highlights new insights and research projects in this bold new approach to the study of life. Here Dr. Miller gives the lowdown on current research as well as this year's conference. Read More ›