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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Servers & Souls: Cloud Computing and Personal Identity
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Like many, you may be storing important files and photos in the cloud. But just where is this magical cloud? How is it powered? Is it safe? To answer these questions and
Oct 16 1 h 10 min
How an ID Framework Guides the Search for Habitable Worlds
How rare is Planet Earth in the vastness of the cosmos? Will we find other planets in space that could possibly harbor life? A new space telescope has just been launched
Oct 14 24 min
I Helped Build NASA’s Latest Space Telescope. Here’s What It Will Do.
A new space telescope was recently launched by NASA. What will it look for? Why do we need another telescope exploring the heavens? And how does an intelligent design per
Oct 12 35 min
The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now
On this ID the Future our of the archive, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews chemist Charles Thaxton about a seminal 1984 book he co-authored, The Mystery of Life’s Or
Oct 9 19 min
How Intelligent Engineering Can Solve the Electromagnetic Spectrum Crisis
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial I
Oct 7 44 min
Restoring the Natural Theology Tradition That Fueled Modern Science
What is the state of the debate over evolution and intelligent design in the UK? And how will Discovery Institute's new Cambridge initiative impact the debate going forwa
Oct 5 34 min
Sunlight And Water Are Uniquely Fit to Sustain Life
If the sun didn't power the photosynthesis of green plants, we wouldn't be breathing right now. And without the finely tuned properties of water, Earth would be a frozen,
Oct 2 22 min
Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real
What is the story of everything? Is there a scientific and philosophical basis for meaning? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues exploring those questi
Sep 30 28 min
A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory
Why are we here? Does life, or the universe, mean anything? And if it does, what? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid explores those questions and more with phy
Sep 28 31 min
Why Carbon is Finely Tuned for Life
In his book Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe writes that in order to understand the barriers to evolution, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity.” On this
Sep 25 21 min
Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design
By now, you’re likely familiar with the multiverse hypothesis, which is actually just one of dozens of cosmological models proposed to explain away the significance of a
Sep 23 37 min
Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars: Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning
You’re likely familiar with the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, and you may be aware that there are several cosmological models attempting to explain away t
Sep 21 36 min
Tech Entrepreneur on People-First AI Innovation in Business
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial I
Sep 18 1 h 29 min
The Missing 20 Years: What Designer Science Left Out
Is the intelligent design movement a short-lived phenomenon that has come and gone? Or is its steady and consistent growth evidence of a flourishing scientific program? O
Sep 16 54 min
Fact-Checking Designer Science: Casey Luskin on ID History Errors
Is intelligent design dying out or just warming up? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Casey Luskin to a new and improved podcast studio for a sit-
Sep 14 49 min
Stephen Meyer & Ben Shapiro Discuss the Origin of Information
On this episode of ID The Future from our archive, we’re bringing you the concluding half of a 2019 interview between Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro and philosopher of scien
Sep 11 32 min
Priors & Proof: Brian Miller Unpacks the Meyer/Halper Debate
Are the Big Bang and the evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe evidence that supports theistic belief or undermines it? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmi
Sep 9 31 min
Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro Talk Intelligent Design
On this ID The Future selected out of the vault, we bring you the first half of Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro's 2019 interview with philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer
Sep 4 30 min
Angus Menuge: A Defense of the Soul in the Age of AI
Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial I
Sep 2 1 h 13 min
Physicist Robert Sheldon on Wonder, Discovery, and The Story of Everything
By now, you’ve likely heard of the new documentary film The Story of Everything. It’s a cinematic exploration of the evidence for intelligent design in the cosmos, from t
Aug 31 51 min
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This podcast is just what I need; deep thinking in bite sized portions. It reminds me of what is true and good in an atmosphere of lies.
SaltandPepper63 · Nov 2025
It’s a good podcast however it can be difficult to listen to at times. This is because one of the cohosts yells when he talks. He talks very fast at a high volume and it’s somewhat stressful to listen to as they go back-and-forth between a calm slower, normal talker and a fast yelling cohost.
Oklahoma Jeep · Jul 2025
These podcasts offer excellent, sometimes brilliant, discussions of issues in science and religion/theism explained remarkably well for non-technical listeners. If you take seriously both topics, and especially how they intersect, these are well worth giving a try.
TDHCR2 · Mar 2024
Always accurate and incredibly helpful information to defend your faith using irrefutable evidence.
Bball time · Jan 2024
I listened to the Aug 5 podcast with Richard Weikart regarding his book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing. The podcast is critical of physician assisted suicided and strongly misrepresents the reasons people choose this option and the process involved. This podcast make it seem like anyone can request a “pill” from a physician to die, when in fact there are very strict laws about who meets criteria - someone with a terminal illness (they are already nearing end of life), has the capacity to make the decision, and the ability to ingest the medications (not one pill but many). The process requires evaluations by an entire interdisciplinary team including mental health, palliative care, primary care, etc. Weikart explains that people choose assisted suicide because they don’t want to be a burden or lack of family support rather than due to pain. Concern about being a burden at end of life is near universal and is not unique to those who choose assisted suicide. Additionally, suffering can exist without pain. So, while some people at the end of their lives make this choice to end pain, others may make it to stop the suffering associated with air hunger from not being able to breathe or the certainty of impending paralysis from neurodegenerative disorders. To say that assisted suicide is given to people without social support is not factual. To get through the eligibility process requires significant social support.
Take care with this information. You are definitely not getting a balanced and complete picture of “medicine’s descent.”
EOL-matters · Oct 2024
The arguments given in most episodes are unconvincing and easily refuted. Many do not even withstand basic logical scrutiny. The only reason I can discern how these “arguments” may seem compelling to anyone is simply confirmation bias — the “arguments” are supporting a claim they already want to believe.
Intelligent design IS a compelling theory. Unfortunately this podcast provides it with poor representation.
-ka.os- · Jul 2024
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