ID the Future Intelligent Design, Evolution, and Science Podcast
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specified complexity

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Michael Behe
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August 22, 2022
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Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

Michael Behe
August 22, 2022

Today’s ID the Future features three recent Evolution News essays by Lehigh University biology professor and Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe, as read by host Andrew McDiarmid. In the first, nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about new results that turn out to be much ado about nothing. In this case, it’s some recent speculation about the rise of “lactase persistence” in many human adults. Then it’s onto malaria, much beloved of evolutionists, not for its lethality but as a demonstration of evolution in action. But Behe dissects the latest news story on the topic to show that the touted malaria evolution is, once again, malaria gnawing off the proverbial leg to achieve a Read More ›

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Stephen C. Meyer
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August 3, 2022
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Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes?

Stephen C. Meyer
August 3, 2022

In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design at the origin of life, in the origin of plants and animals, and from the fine tuning of the laws and constants of chemistry and the initial conditions of the universe. He connects all this to the scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning—the Big Bang. What about the main materialistic alternative for explaining this suite of evidence—the idea that there is a multiverse with our universe just being one of the lucky universes with Read More ›

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Brian Miller
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March 23, 2022
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Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

Brian Miller
March 23, 2022

On this ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller looks at various attempts to evade the mounting evidence that the universe had a beginning, a Big Bang. Miller and host Casey Luskin first review the fascinating history of how the eternal universe model of the nineteenth century gave way to the Big Bang model. Then Miller walks through about a half a dozen attempts to evade a cosmic beginning after the Big Bang model had won the day. These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. According to this model, our universe exists in a multi-dimensional brane (not “brain”) which exists in a higher dimensional space, and our multi-dimensional brane Read More ›

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Daniel Reeves
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June 8, 2020
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Information, Specified Complexity and the Explanatory Filter

Daniel Reeves
June 8, 2020

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.

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Michael Egnor
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May 13, 2020
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Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

Michael Egnor
May 13, 2020

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of random mutations in viruses and draws upon Aristotle to argue that these and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design — in this case, the designed systems — the bodies — that viruses invade.

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Winston Ewert
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February 10, 2016
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity Part III: Measuring Meaning in Images

Winston Ewert
February 10, 2016

On this episode of ID The Future, Robert Marks and Winston Ewert, both of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, discuss three of their recently published papers dealing with evolutionary informatics, algorithmic specified complexity and how information makes evolution work.

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Winston Ewert
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February 8, 2016
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity Part II: Application to Conway’s Game of Life

Winston Ewert
February 8, 2016

On this episode of ID The Future, Robert Marks and Winston Ewert, both of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, discuss three of their recently published papers dealing with evolutionary informatics, algorithmic specified complexity and how information makes evolution work. This is the second of three segments.

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Winston Ewert
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February 3, 2016
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity Part I: Genesis

Winston Ewert
February 3, 2016

On this episode of ID The Future, Robert Marks and Winston Ewert, both of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, discuss three of their recently published papers dealing with evolutionary informatics, algorithmic specified complexity and how information makes evolution work. This is the first of three segments.

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Jonathan Wells
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October 21, 2015
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ID Inquiry: Jonathan Wells on Codes in Biology

Jonathan Wells
October 21, 2015

On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second episode of our ID The Future segment ID Inquiry, in which ID scientists and scholars answer your questions about intelligent design and evolution. Ask your question by sending an email to editor@evolutionnews.org, and tune in to this episode as Dr. Jonathan Wells explains the concept of codes in living things, and how they affect the debate over neo-Darwinism and intelligent design.

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June 16, 2014
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Jonathan Wells: Is There Biological Information Outside of the DNA?, pt. 4

Jonathan Wells
June 16, 2014

On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Jonathan Wells continues his discussion with Casey Luskin about his recently published paper, “Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA.” In previous podcasts, Dr. Wells has shown that embryo development requires information carried by membrane patterns in embryonic cells. Today, Dr. Wells discusses what this means for our understanding of evolution.

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