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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 11, 2020

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__edited, carbon, cells, complexity, Intelligent Design, technology, the cell, theistic evolution}

Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 11, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, we hear from two contributors to the Crossway anthology, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, Molecular biologist Douglas Axe and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer explain how Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley, and shouts intelligent design. They compare some of today’s technological marvels to living technology, and show how even “simple cells” far exceed even the best silicon valley has to offer.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 9, 2020

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__edited, Academic Freedom, Andrew Sullivan, cancel culture, David Gelerntner, Declaration of Independence, Douglas Axe, Expelled, Günter Bechly, imago dei, Intelligent Design, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, William F. Buckley, Wilmore Kendall}

Intelligent Design: The Canary in the Cancel Culture Coal Mine

_{David Klinghoffer

September 9, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther speaks with David Klinghoffer, editor of Evolution News and Science Today, about contemporary “cancel culture” that’s attempting to push disfavored ideas and people out of the public square, and how the cancel-culture phenomenon struck intelligent design long before cancel culture was a household term. The term — and the movie title — more commonly used in ID circles has been “expelled.” It’s happened to Richard Sternberg, Günter Bechly, Douglas Axe, and other ID-friendly researchers, to the point that many ID-sympathizing scientists have to hide their beliefs to protect research funding and careers. Klinghoffer emphasizes that this isn’t just a debate off in the corner. Rather, ID is a “hard-core truth,” meaning it’s one of those on which our entire culture of freedom rests, for what else does it mean that we were “endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights”?

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
September 2, 2020

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__edited, abiogenesis, Intelligent Design, Materialism, membrane first, metabolism first, Naturalism, OOL, origin of life, protocell, RNA first, RNA world, scientific Materialism}

New Origin-of-Life Proposal Revives a Hopeful Monster

_{Eric H. Anderson

September 2, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Eric Anderson talks with scientist and fellow engineer Rob Stadler about a recent origin-of-life paper and how the authors paint themselves into a corner. The context for the paper is this: Decades of research have undermined the three great hopes for a purely naturalistic origin of life — scenarios starting with some sort of metabolism, scenarios starting with some kind of membrane, and scenarios starting with RNA. All three are necessary for cellular life; none seems able to have come ahead of the others. So now some recent work described in an article in New Scientist suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” It’s the return of an old idea long ago dismissed as too improbable. Is this “hopeful monster” plausible after all? As Anderson and Stadler show, there are numerous hidden assumptions and imaginary entities lurking in the proposal, which when surfaced, call its soundness into question.

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Author
Emily Kurlinski

Date
August 10, 2020

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__edited, Academic Freedom, CSC summer seminar, design argument, genetic revolution, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, non-coding DNA, Privileged Planet, purpose, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

ID and the CSC Summer Seminar: Transformative

_{Emily Kurlinski

August 10, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Emily Kurlinski interviews “Mary,” a PhD biochemistry student who tells about her experiences at the annual Center for Science and Culture’s summer seminar program in Seattle, and how her relationships there developed into a community of friendship, professional connection, and support. What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Mary says ID had just the opposite effect on her. Her pro-design perspective actually led her to choose a career in research, and the conviction that nature is a meaningful and purposeful affair makes her more eager and optimistic about uncovering deeper layers of order and elegance in the natural world than otherwise. Why does she use a pseudonym in the interview? You may be able to guess, but listen in to hear her explanation.

Michael Behe Still from Secrets in the Cell

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 5, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, Bacteriophage T4, cellular control systems, co-option, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, embryo, Evolution, flagella, gears, genetic regulatory networks, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Kenneth Miller, magnetotactic bacterium, MO1, random mutation, theistic evolution, wiring diagrams}

Michael Behe Answers Your Questions

_{Michael Behe

August 5, 2020

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This episode of ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe. The Lehigh University biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow sat down to answer some of the most common questions put to him about evolution and intelligent design, and here we collect his answers to three of those questions: (1) What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? (2) What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? And (3) Why aren’t you convinced by theistic evolution arguments?

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 13, 2020

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__edited, Academic Freedom, Angus Menuge, Antony Flew, apologetics, argument from design, argument from functional complexity, argument from joy, argument from natural beauty, argument from reason, argument from suboptimal design, C.S. Lewis, history of science, Intelligent Design, natural law, open inquiry, Oxford Socratic Club, problem of pain, Theism, Victor Reppert}

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West

July 13, 2020

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On the episode of ID the Future we bring you a production by Discovery Institute about C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design. With contributions by Discovery Institute’s John West and philosophers Victor Reppert and Angus Menuge, we hear about Lewis’s early doubts about God based in part on an argument from undesign or “bad design” in nature, and how he moved from this position to developing multiple arguments for intelligent design. Another contribution he made to the intelligent design project wasn’t a specific argument but the example he set. As John West explains near the end of the episode, one of his greatest contributions was a commitment to free inquiry and open debate, one he modeled while a professor at Oxford University.

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 8, 2020

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__edited, antibiotics, Bacteria, biomimetics, Butterflies, cicadas, foresight, fruit flies, Intelligent Design, sea skaters, stem cells}

Intricate Optimized Insect Designs – via Evolution?

_{Andrew McDiarmid

July 8, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid draws on an essay at Evolution News & Science Today to explore some intricate optimized insect designs that are inspiring human engineers and raise the question, could evolution have done that? Cicadas and dragonflies use an exquisitely engineered “bed of nails” on their wings to disarm and neutralize bacteria. Butterflies and bird feathers also use this trick. There are fruit flies that have multiple navigation systems, complete with error correction for hard turns. And the sea skater insect is able to walk on water and launch itself explosively thanks to an impressive combination of engineering marvels. Did evolution really bring all those design factors together? Or was something else required — intelligence and foresight?

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Author
Robert P. Waltzer

Date
July 6, 2020

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__edited, cardiopulmonary system, Charles Darwin, common descent, hemoglobin, information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, neutral evolution, Proteins, Tree of Life}

In a Nutshell: Three Great Problems for Evolution

_{Robert P. Waltzer

July 6, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with Robert Waltzer, chair of the department of biology at Belhaven University and co-author of Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, on three big problems faced by naturalistic evolutionary theory. First, it appears that science has turned up several instances of what is known as irreducible complexity, something that Darwin himself said would falsify his theory if ever discovered. Second, various proposed “trees of life” conflict with each other, a problem that has grown worse as additional evidence and methods have arisen, a trend that makes theories of common descent difficult to sustain. And third, we know of no case where information is generated or improved without intelligent action behind it. Evolutionists still hold on to their theories, but why are they not more open at least to debate and criticism? Professor Waltzer suggests multiple possibilities.

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 26, 2020

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__edited, Adolf Grünbaum, Aristotle, DNA sequencing, empirical attitude, epistemology, Francis Bacon, genome sequencing, genomic sequencing, Intelligent Design, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Materialism, Naturalism, Nature, On Certainty, orphan genes, philosophy of science, Robert Boyle, Royal Society of London, Sean Carroll}

Paul Nelson on Listening to Nature for Her Answers

_{Paul Nelson

June 26, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson concludes his talk with host Andrew McDiarmid on what it takes to converse effectively with scientists who are trapped in a naturalistic parabola — that is, researchers who draw their conclusions from naturalism’s authority rather than following the evidence wherever it leads. Nelson urges us to keep the third party in the conversation: Nature herself. We listen to nature through experiment, he says, and warns against the message from scientists such as CalTech’s Sean Carroll who have suggested that testing is “overrated.” If we listen and test, nature can keep revealing herself in surprising ways, says Nelson, which is what makes science so fun.

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
June 8, 2020

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__edited, appearance of design, astrobiology, Biological Information, chance, Darwin, Design, DNA, exobiology, explanatory filter, Francis Crick, genetic code, genetic information, human genome, information, information theory, Intelligent Design, Maurice Wilkins, nanomachinery, necessity, random, randomness, Rosalind Franklin, SETI, specified complexity, William Dembski}

Information, Specified Complexity and the Explanatory Filter

_{Daniel Reeves

June 8, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, we hear the third and final portion of a talk given at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith conference. Daniel Reeves, education outreach coordinator at Discovery Institute, rounds out his extended explanation of intelligent design theory. Far from being “Gee whiz that’s complicated; it must be designed!,” the theory relies on well-defined concepts such as specified complexity and an explanatory filter that allows one to distinguish designed events from either chance, necessity, or a combination of the two. The key in the molecular biological realm: detecting functional information.