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July 31, 2019

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Jonathan Witt Talks Science Uprising and More with Jerry Newcombe

_{July 31, 2019

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Today’s episode of ID the Future brings you a conversation between Discovery Institute senior fellow Jonathan Witt and radio host Jerry Newcombe, originally presented on Newcombe’s nationally syndicated radio show. The two begin by discussing the Discovery Institute’s Science Uprising video series, which Jonathan helped create. From there they go on to talk about philosophical materialism, free will, morality, and what it means to be human. They touch on the Darwinian opposition, and on the rising threat of censorship.

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Michael Flannery

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July 16, 2018

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__edited, consciousness, Evolution, exaptations, Free Will, God, human exceptionalism, human instinct, humanness, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, reason, spandrels, theistic evolution}

A Critique of Evolutionist Kenneth Miller’s New Book The Human Instinct

_{Michael Flannery

July 16, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Mike Keas interviews Professor Emeritus Michael Flannery (U of Alabama-Birmingham) on evolutionist Kenneth Miller’s new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will. Miller is prominent as a science educator and supporter of Neo-Darwinian theistic evolution. Flannery, a historian of science, argues that Miller’s attempt to defend human exceptionalism on Neo-Darwinian grounds runs into fatal difficulties, as have similar attempts before. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Jay Richards

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June 6, 2018

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__edited, artificial intelligence (AI), Computers, consciousness, driverless cars, dystopia, Ethics, Free Will, Google, Henry A. Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Human Advantage, human uniqueness, Jay W. Richards, Machine learning}

Kissinger and AI, Pt. 2: Jay Richards Presses Pause on the Robot Apocalypse

_{Jay Richards

June 6, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards continues his conversation with host and historian of science Mike Keas about Henry Kissinger’s recent Atlantic article on “The End of the Enlightenment.” In the piece, Kissinger sounds an alarm over artificial intelligence, and raises questions about machine ethics and the possibility that humans may learn we’re not so special after all. Richards, author of the new book The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work In an Age of Smart Machines, pushes back, explaining how we can continue to use artificial intelligence to our advantage, prudently but without fear of the robot apocalypse or of computers becoming conscious and free. No, Richards argues, those qualities cannot be programmed. They are, and will remain, the human advantage.

Jay Richards Responds to Henry Kissinger on the New World of Artificial Intelligence

_{Jay Richards

June 4, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards talks with host Mike Keas about a recent Atlantic article from former National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger on “How the Enlightenment Ends” with the rise of artificial intelligence. Richards, whose forthcoming book The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work In an Age of Smart Machines, covers this territory and more, explains that AI is about statistical processing, not budding consciousness; and the ethical concerns it raises are both important yet in some ways not so new.

Exploring the deepest threat to our Constitution

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 23, 2013

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On this episode of ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved discuss materialism and how it effects our constitution. Not in the sense of buying more ‘stuff’ but instead the particular conception of human nature. The idea of free will, that we are capable of self-governance is under attack. The forced theory that life is the product of an unguided, undirected process implies we don’t have free will. That law and morality is still evolving indicates the need to constantly update our constitution placing the document under threat as never before.