Intelligent Design The Future
Summary: The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design. IDTF is a short podcast providing you with the most current news and views on evolution and ID. IDTF delivers brief interviews with key scientists and scholars developing the theory of ID, as well as insightful commentary from Discovery Institute senior fellows and staff on the scientific, educational and legal aspects of the debate.
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This episode of ID the Future offers another sample from the new audio version of Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell. The previous podcast covered the first half of Chapter 1. Now the rest of the chapter. Here Meyer explains how he was introduced to the mystery of how DNA came to be, perspectives on origins science, and how these drew him to learn more through formal study.
On this episode of ID the Future, hear a segment from the new audiobook version of Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. What is information? And how does DNA pose a problem for Darwinism? Listen in and find out.
On this episode of ID the Future, Tod Butterfield reads two essays by Tom Bethell featured on national news sites The American Spectator and The Stream. Listen in to Bethell’s exposé on Darwin Day, and his thoughts on materialism and consciousness, adapted from his recent book.
On this episode of ID the Future, host David Boze talks with Dr. Jay Richards, a contributor to The Magician's Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. Dr. Richards discusses Lewis' argument that one cannot consistently believe in both the validity of human reason and the truth of naturalism. For more information, visit C.S. Lewis Web.
This episode of ID the Future offers another sample from the new audio version of Stephen Meyer’s bestselling Darwin’s Doubt. The previous podcast covered the first half of Chapter 1. Now the rest of the chapter. Here Meyer takes a closer look at Darwin’s early intellectual opponent, Louis Agassiz. Why did the great Harvard paleontologist reject Darwin’s theory? Was he really, as some argue, a hidebound traditionalist, too mired in minutia and German idealism to catch the new wave? Learn why the historical evidence paints a very different picture.
On this episode of ID the Future, hear a segment from the new audiobook version of Stephen Meyer’s New York Times bestseller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. What was the one clue Charles Darwin admitted he couldn’t explain? And who was his chief antagonist in the matter? Listen in and find out.
On this episode of ID The Future, hear more from Dr. Stephen Meyer's 2012 talk for Socrates in the City, hosted by Eric Metaxas. Meyer, Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, explained why we are still debating Darwin and why it matters. Tune in now!
On this episode of ID The Future, hear excerpts from a Socrates in the City event in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, answers the question “Why are we still debating Darwin, and why does it matter?” As Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” In speaking at a Socrates in the City event, Dr. Meyer joins a host of other thinkers who address life’s most important questions by encouraging thoughtful discourse and debate. The event was hosted by author Eric Metaxas. Listen now!
On this episode of ID the Future, hear the Introduction to Tom Bethell’s Darwin’s House of Cards. Bethell writes of how his own skepticism about the logic of natural selection emerged, and describes an interview with Karl Popper.
On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Senior Fellow Dr. Ann Gauger talks about a recent paper in the journal Cell, and how it seems that the more we look, the greater order we find. She discusses a critical transition in embryo development, a compound which aids this transition, and the origins of this compound. According to Gauger, this order may point beyond neo-Darwinian processes.
On this episode of ID the Future, David Klinghoffer reviews Tom Bethell’s book, Darwin’s House of Cards. This volume’s approach to evolution, Klinghoffer says, should serve as a model for the media. Listen in to hear more about Bethell’s interviews with leading paleontologists Colin Patterson and Gareth Nelson.
On this episode of ID the Future, Sarah Chaffee interviews CSC Senior Fellow Ann Gauger about apoptosis – or self-induced cell death – and how it plays into multicellular life. Listen in to learn more about the immune system, development, and how apoptosis demonstrates purpose.
On this episode of ID the Future, Ann Gauger shares about the cell as a bustling city. What is the powerplant of the cell? How about its thoroughfares? Waste recycling? Listen in to learn more!
On this episode of ID the Future, hear a clip from Revolutionary and join us as Ray Bohlin talks with Michael Behe about how German paleo-entomologist Günter Bechly became interested in intelligent design. Listen in as Behe explains how it’s important to examine intelligent design for yourself, as Bechly inadvertently did, instead of relying on the the Darwinian establishment's straw man characterization of intelligent design.
On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Senior Fellow Ann Gauger discusses the library of the cell. She delves into transcription and translation and the speed with which these processes take place. Listen in to learn more about the workings of the cell!
