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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Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)
#13 trending · Life Sciences
Rolex is well-known the world over for crafting high-quality, innovative time-pieces. But did you know they also award funds to people with innovative ideas in science an
Nov 6 27 min
What Physics and Math Reveal About Unseen Dimensions of Reality
#29 trending · Life Sciences
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
Nov 5 48 min
Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers
Is the natural world full of flawed, makeshift designs, as some critics of intelligent design have argued? Or are living things far more ingeniously engineered than we've
Nov 3 53 min
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin
In June 1860, just seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, three men hotly debated the merits of Darwin's argument at a meeting of the Briti
Oct 31 35 min
Co-Opting Purpose: How Materialists Redefine Biological Agency
Purpose has been a fundamental part of our understanding of nature for millennia. But the rise of scientific materialism and Darwinism saw purpose get left out of the sci
Oct 28 30 min
The Exclusion, and Return, of Purpose in Science
Purpose was once considered fundamental to understanding nature. But for the last few centuries, scientists committed to a Darwinian view of life have ignored it. Now som
Oct 26 28 min
Landmark Origins Book Conclusions Are Even Stronger Today
On this classic ID the Future out of the vault, guest host Robert J. Marks interviews Roger Olsen, co-author of the groundbreaking book The Mystery of Life’s Origin. In t
Oct 23 23 min
How Engineering Logic Unlocks Biological Mysteries
Intelligent design is fundamentally a theory of design detection. But in addition to helping us evaluate models that best explain past events, ID can also guide experimen
Oct 21 40 min
From Origins to Operations: The Broad Utility of Intelligent Design
You may already know that an intelligent design framework can help us empirically detect whether an outcome in nature exhibits properties that indicate design. But did yo
Oct 19 40 min
Servers & Souls: Cloud Computing and Personal Identity
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
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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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