Intelligent Design the Future

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Intelligent Design the Future

by Discovery Institute

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. Episode notes and archives available at idthefuture.com.

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1

What Separates AI From the Qualities of the Human Mind

1:11:52 Mar 20, 2026

2

The Low-Confidence Science Propping Up Neo-Darwinian Claims

49:14 Mar 18, 2026

3

Rob Stadler: Six Criteria for High-Confidence Science

29:47 Mar 16, 2026

4

Johannes Kepler and the Mathematical Rationality of the Cosmos

26:56 Mar 14, 2026

5

Using Historical Reasoning to Navigate Today’s Scientific Debates

20:25 Mar 12, 2026

6

Winston Ewert: The Ancient Roots of Modern Materialism and Scientism

20:24 Mar 10, 2026

7

Blast from the Past: Jonathan Wells Gets Politically Incorrect About Darwinism

8:56 Mar 6, 2026

8

Irreducible Intelligence: Why AI Imitation is Not Functional Knowledge

1:35:52 Mar 4, 2026

9

Discovering Interoception, The Body’s Internal Dialogue

30:58 Mar 2, 2026

10

Jonathan Bartlett on the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations

25:15 Feb 27, 2026

11

Long Necks and Tall Tales: Why Samotherium Isn’t Missing Link

31:51 Feb 25, 2026

12

On the Origin of “Tall Blondes”: Correcting the Record on Giraffe Evolution

28:11 Feb 23, 2026

13

No Thinking Without a Thinker: Dr. Mihretu Guta on Consciousness

1:27:33 Feb 20, 2026

14

Bioengineer Stuart Burgess Reads From New Book Ultimate Engineering

36:53 Feb 18, 2026

15

Rockets & Wristbones: Optimal Engineering in Biology

35:53 Feb 16, 2026

16

Douglas Axe: Dragonflies, Cookies, and Our Built-In Design Intuition

23:37 Feb 13, 2026

17

Ultimate Engineering: An Interview with Bioengineer Stuart Burgess

32:37 Feb 11, 2026

18

The Accidental Inventor: An Interview with Hal Philipp

1:16:28 Feb 10, 2026

19

How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Survive

23:47 Feb 6, 2026

20

Mind and Soul at the Threshold of Death

54:39 Feb 5, 2026

21

Terminal Lucidity: When the Mind Outlasts the Brain

56:01 Feb 2, 2026

22

The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

39:02 Jan 30, 2026

23

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

28:26 Jan 28, 2026

24

Applying Information Conservation to Biological Origins

23:12 Jan 26, 2026

25

Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

23:33 Jan 23, 2026

26

Why Intelligence is Necessary to Explain Nature’s Functional Information

31:56 Jan 21, 2026

27

Bill Dembski Reveals the Hidden Cost of Information

29:48 Jan 19, 2026

28

Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

26:05 Jan 17, 2026

29

Dr. Edward Peltzer: The Messy Reality of Prebiotic Chemistry

21:09 Jan 14, 2026

30

Expert: Without Intelligence, Organic Chemistry Leads to Degradation, Not Life

32:17 Jan 12, 2026

31

Sex: A Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

25:04 Jan 10, 2026

32

20 Years After Dover: Steve Fuller on Science, Censorship, and the “Church of Darwin”

42:26 Jan 7, 2026

33

Professor Steve Fuller on the Rich Tradition of Intelligent Design

29:29 Jan 5, 2026

34

How Lightning and Water Make Life on Earth Possible

16:34 Jan 2, 2026

35

Integrity in Science: More with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims

27:59 Dec 31, 2025

36

Forrest Mims: The Essential Role of Skepticism in Science

27:49 Dec 29, 2025

37

Marcos Eberlin and Jonathan Wells on Life’s Problem-Solving Engineering

15:00 Dec 26, 2025

38

Casey Luskin on the Rising Tide of Intelligent Design Research

47:22 Dec 24, 2025

39

Creepy Crawly Complexity: The Intelligent Design of Insects

26:05 Dec 22, 2025

40

Nancy Pearcey: How Darwinism Fueled a Toxic War on Masculinity

35:03 Dec 19, 2025

41

Casey Luskin: How the ID Movement Has Flourished Since the Dover Trial

43:07 Dec 18, 2025

42

Casey Luskin: ID Over After Dover? Not Even Close

33:40 Dec 16, 2025

43

Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in a Designed World

20:13 Dec 12, 2025

44

When Engineering Meets Biology: More From Our Scientist Roundtable

39:26 Dec 10, 2025

45

Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body

21:35 Dec 8, 2025

46

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

27:35 Dec 6, 2025

47

Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Laws of Nature

26:05 Dec 3, 2025

48

Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

23:31 Dec 1, 2025

49

Thus Saith the Science: C.S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism

24:41 Nov 28, 2025

50

Get to Know This Mathematician’s Simple, Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

45:11 Nov 26, 2025

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