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Casey Luskin

Date
December 24, 2025

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, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, common design, Darwinism, ENCODE, engineering principles, Engineering Research Group, epigenetics, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Fossil Record, genome, Intelligent Design, intelligent design predictions, irreducible complexity, Junk DNA, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, non-coding DNA, origin of life, orphan genes, teleology, Tree of Life}

Casey Luskin on the Rising Tide of Intelligent Design Research

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December 24, 2025

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Any scientific theory for the origin of life and the universe is only as strong as its research program. For intelligent design, this is good news. On today's ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin describes the current growth and scientific maturity of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. Luskin describes the progress of ID across three main areas: successful scientific predictions, the unresolved failures of Neo-Darwinism to account for life, and the growth of the ID community as well as scientists outside ID who are looking for alternatives to modern evolutionary proposals. Dr. Luskin compares the growth of the ID research program to a snowball; it started small and faced early setbacks, but it is now rapidly picking up size, speed, and scientific weight as it rolls forward. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
July 21, 2025

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, basics of intelligent design, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kristin Marais, mainstream science, Materialism, materialistic worldview, methodological naturalism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, online chemistry course, purpose, teleology}

Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose

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July 21, 2025

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Is intelligent design a viable scientific theory? Why do some still insist on calling it pseudoscience? Maybe you’re wondering these things yourself, or have a friend, family member, or co-worker who has these types of questions. On this ID The Future, scientist and attorney Dr. Casey Luskin and his wife, chemistry teacher Kristin Marais, explain how a materialistic worldview causes many scientists and science communicators to lose the plot and forget what science is all about. This is the first half of a conversation with host Daniel Ray on the Apologetics Profile podcast. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode. Read More ›

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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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Michael Denton

Date
June 28, 2024

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, astrobiology, carbon chemistry, carbon compounds, carbon-based life, fine-tuning, Friedrich Wöhler, intelligent agency, organic chemistry, SETI, silicon life, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, vitalism}

Biochemist Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

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June 28, 2024

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On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, biochemist and author Michael Denton and host Eric Anderson conclude their conversation about Denton's book The Miracle of the Cell, and about his epiphany of the many remarkable ways that nature’s chemistry is fine-tuned for life. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

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Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 15, 2024

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, asexual reproduction, biology, Carl Zimmer, cell division, Charles Darwin, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Evolution, evolvability, female, fertilization, Flagellum, human reproduction, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, irreducibly complex, male, meiosis, mitosis, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, offspring, ovum, reproduction, selective advantage, sex, sexual reproduction, sexual selection, sperm cell, teleology}

Sex: A Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

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January 15, 2024

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Sexual reproduction ought to be a recipe for evolutionary disaster. It's a waste of resources producing no short-term advantages. It demands an entirely different form of cell division and requires highly designed interconnected components to succeed. And yet, sex reigns supreme in the biological world. On this ID The Future, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie begins a series on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory and why instead it bears the hallmarks of a system governed by forethought and engineering. This is Part 1 of 3. Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
August 16, 2023

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, Big Bang, constants of nature, cosmological constant, cosmology, cosmos, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, laws and constants of physics, laws of physics, multiverse, purpose, Richard Feynman, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

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August 16, 2023

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? On this ID The Future, host Brian Miller continues his conversation with Rabbi Elie Feder and Rabbi Aaron Zimmer, hosts of the Physics to God podcast. Feder has a PhD in mathematics and has published articles on graph theory. Zimmer has training in physics, and has studied mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. Both men also have extensive rabbinical training. Through their podcast, Feder and Zimmer invite both secular and religious listeners on a journey through modern physics as they offer rational arguments for an intelligent cause of the universe. In the conclusion to their discussion, Feder and Zimmer explain why the cosmological constant is one of their favorite examples of fine-tuning. They also share the importance of exploring the teleological causes, or purposes, of natural phenomena. To help listeners grasp the difference between efficient causes and teleological causes, they give the example of a carpenter who builds a table. Is the carpenter the cause of the existence of the table? Or is the idea of the table in the carpenter's mind the cause? Or both? Using modern physics, say Feder and Zimmer, an objective justification for the purpose of the universe can be made. Enjoy this provocative and illuminating discussion! Don't miss Part 1 of the conversation, available here: https://idthefuture.com/1787/ Read More ›

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David Berlinski

Date
June 21, 2023

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, Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Alonzo Church, biological life, Bohr model, Charles Darwin, ChatGPT, computable, computing age, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Dirac equation, Evolution, general relativity, Giuseppe Peano, incompleteness theorems, Kurt Gödel, mathematical logic, mathematics, Michael Ruse, Natural Selection, non-computable, philosophy of biology, physics, Platonic objects, Princeton University, Principia Mathematica, quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, recursive functions, Science After Babel, scientific reductionism, special relativity, survival of the fittest, teleology, theory of everything, Tower of Babel, Turing machine, Turing Test, Von Neumann machine, William Dembski}

David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

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June 21, 2023

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The new book Science After Babel is again in the spotlight here at ID the Future, with its author, philosopher and mathematician David Berlinski, and host Andrew McDiarmid teasing various elements of the work. The pair discuss the puzzling relationship between purely immaterial mathematical concepts (the only kind) and the material world; World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing, depicted in the 2014 film The Imitation Game; and the sense that the field of physics, once seemingly on the cusp of a theory of everything, finds itself at an impasse. Then, too, Berlinski writes, there is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Life’s “fantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference from anything else in this or any other world” remains before us, suggesting, as Berlinski puts it, “a kind of intelligence evident nowhere else.” Get your copy of the book at www.scienceafterbabel.com. Read More ›

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David Berlinski

Date
June 7, 2023

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, algorithms, Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, calculus, Charles Darwin, ChatGPT, Chinese Revolution, Dan Tawfik, Darwinism, David Berlinski, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, Evolution, Francis Crick, French zoological tradition, genetic code, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Marcel Schützenberger, Markov process, mathematics, methodological naturalism, Mikhael Gromov, Murray Eden, Neo-Darwinism, optimizing process, Oswald Avery, Peter Medawar, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, Pierre Grasse, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, protein chemistry, protein space, Richard Dawkins, Science After Babel, teleology, The Selfish Gene, Tower of Babel, What is Life?, WISTAR Symposium, World War II}

David Berlinski on His New Book, Science After Babel

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June 7, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid rings up Science After Babel author David Berlinski in Paris to discuss the philosopher’s latest book. Berlinski is at his cultivated best as the two discuss everything from the biblical Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern materialistic science, to his friendship with the brilliant and colorful French intellectual Marcel Schützenberger, a world-class mathematician who was self-taught and, as we learn here, came within a hair’s breadth of being swept up in the Chinese Revolution. Berlinski also reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism, challenges that Berlinski says remain unanswered to this day. At the same time, Berlinski gives the devil — here Read More ›

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Ann Gauger

Date
May 8, 2023

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, Adam and Eve, beauty, Catholic, Catholicism, common ancestry, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, genetic code, God's Grandeur, human dignity, human exceptionalism, human uniqueness, Intelligent Design, intelligibility, Natural Selection, origin of life, teleology}

God’s Grandeur: Ann Gauger on Beauty, Intelligibility, and Human Uniqueness

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May 8, 2023

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Jay Richards concludes a two-part conversation with Ann Gauger about her newly edited volume God's Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design. Part 1 of their discussion focuses on the philosophical and theological arguments for intelligent design presented in the book. Gauger holds that Darwinism has no adequate explanation for natural beauty or the ability of human beings to appreciate beauty for its own sake. She also argues that we have no reason to expect human uniqueness or intelligibility in the universe outside a design paradigm. This is Part 2 of a conversation. Visit GodsGrandeur.org to learn more and download a free chapter! Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
April 10, 2023

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, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, design optimality, engineering, engineering principles, Evolution, foresight, Intelligent Design, mind, Natural Selection, optimality, purpose, systems biology, teleology}

Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

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April 10, 2023

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More biologists are returning to the use of design-based assumptions, tools, models, and language to study the natural world. Dr. Brian Miller explains why in Part 1 of a conversation with Casey Luskin. Read More ›