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Talk Origins Full of Claims but Short on Real Evidence On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses Talk Origins, a resource often used by supporters of Darwinian evolution to refute arguments made by proponents of intelligent design. After taking a closer look, Luskin found FAQs on Talk Origins guilty of citation bluffing, overstated claims, and other misleading tactics. In particular, the Talk Origins FAQ on speciation claims to provide evidence of "observed instances" of new species. On further review, this turns out to be far fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lincoln & Darwin: One Night Only, pt. 2 On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze continues his discussion with Professor Steven Fuller about his play Lincoln & Darwin: One Night Only,a unique look at the philosophies of both influential men and how the might respond to the issues of modern society. February 12th marks the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. It is also Academic Freedom Day, a day to celebrate and defend the freedom to challenge ideas and question the status quo in science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lincoln and Darwin: One Night Only February 12th marks the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. On this episode of ID The Future, Professor Steven Fuller discusses his play Lincoln & Darwin: One Night Only, a unique look at the philosophies of both influential men and how the might respond to the issues of modern society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature Building a Compelling Case for ID On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin puts to rest once and for all the common assertion by opponents of intelligent design that there are no scientific papers supporting the claims of ID. This wasn't true in 2005 when Eugenie Scott of the NCSE stated it on MSNBC and it certainly isn't true six years later. Luskin discusses the most recent scientific paper, by Stephen Meyer and Paul Nelson, and talks about the importance of the peer-reviewed scientific literature: "These papers col ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conservatives as Heretics On this episode of IDTF, host David Boze interviews CSC senior fellow David Klilnghoffer about his piece in the American Spectator looking at why many in the media and politics are abusing the word science by converting it into a verbal bullying tool to force opposition to conform to political agendas. Klinghoffer also examined the similarities in the kinds of ideas that evoke a skeptical response among conservatives and republicans and whether those similarities tell us something about th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arguing Analogies: Dr. Jay Richards on Paley's Natural Theology In this edition of ID The Future, Logan Gage interviews CSC Senior Fellow Dr. Jay Richards about William Paley, David Hume, and the arguments for intelligent design. Dr. Richards begins with a description of William Paley's 1802 book Natural Theology, in which the author infers from the natural world that there must be some intelligent force (God) responsible for its design. Richards then addresses David Hume's critique of analogical arguments like those used by Paley. Dr. Richards closes b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Shermer's Conflicted Message on Science, ID, and Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a look at Michael Shermer's conflicted message on science, intelligent design, and evolution. Michael Shermer recently debated the scientific ideas and beliefs of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, with Michael Flannery. View their exchanges on Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Film Says Darwinian Evolution Co-Founder Embraced Design On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West, Associate Director of Discovery's Center for Science & Culture, discusses Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin's Heretic is a new documentary short film now available online that highlights Wallace's theory of "intelligent evolution" and reveals his contributions to biogeography. The film is based on a recent book by historian Michael Flannery called Alfred Russel Wallace: A Redisco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hypocritcal Bias Against Faith in Science Rhetoric On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West, Associate Director for Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, discusses the attempts by many Darwinists to relegate intelligent design to the humanities, equating it with creationism so as to avoid discussion of its scientific merits. West also talks about the mistaken notion that science and faith are incompatible: "Regardless of whether someone happens to be religious or not, they have the right to participate in the public li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for an Engineered Universe On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, discusses his 2010 peer-reviewed paper, "The Coherence Of An Engineered World," published in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Listen in as Dr. Halsmer explains to Casey Luskin why the universe is bio-friendly and the signs of engineering he sees in Nature. Listen in to Part 2 of Casey's interview with Dr. Halsmer. Download and read ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Pre-Cambrian Fossils the Solution to Darwin's Dilemma? On this episode of Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are new state laws properly labeled "creationist"? On this podcast, David Boze is joined by CSC program manager for public policy and legal affairs, Joshua Youngkin to discuss several recent science education bills filed in the legislatures of New Hampshire and Indiana. Although one of the bills is clearly creationist in form and aim, and would thus be unlawful if passed, as explained below, the language, purpose and likely effects of other two bills are sufficiently murky right now to resist the creationist label. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dover and the "ID is dead" meme UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The Monday, January 16 podcast was mislabeled and improperly identified. Here is the correct description. On this podcast, David Boze interviews CSC Research Coordinator Casey Luskin discussing the “ID is Dead” internet meme. They review problems with the Kitzmiller v. Dover ruling, and how ID has thrived despite the intolerant environment in the post-Dover world. Listen in as they discuss exciting recent developments in science, media, and the next generatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Anti-Science": Unpacking a Distorted Label, pt. 2 On this episode of ID The Future, we return to the topic of the anti-science label and how opponents of intelligent design try to stifle the debate by using this unscientific term. Tune in to hear host David Boze review some of the latest examples of this tactic, including a recent article in New Scientist Magazine warning of unscientific America and its "dangerous retreat from reason." Boze also reviews definitions of science, just to be clear on what science is and what it isn't. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ARN's Dennis Wagner on the Top 10 Science Stories of 2011 On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin talks with ARN Executive Director Dennis Wagner on the Access Research Network's Top 10 Science Stories of 2011. Gaining top honors on the list was the publication of the 50th peer-reviewed pro-ID scientific paper. Biomemetics, the field of science where man tries to mimic designs found in nature, made the top 10 list again this year with inventors from Harvard building a prototype butterfly and researchers in China reverse-engineering the wood ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Law Professor David DeWolf on the History of the Santorum Amendment On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David DeWolf, a law professor at Gonzaga University School of Law and author of the 2009 law review article “The ‘Teach the Controversy’ Controversy” on the history of the “Santorum Amendment.” In the podcast, DeWolf and Luskin discuss the 2001 “Santorum Amendment,” which encouraged schools to teach the scientific controversy over biological evolution. The amendment, submitted by th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PSSI International Adventures With Darwinists in Spain, Part Two On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his interview with Rich Akin, the founder and CEO of Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity (PSSI) International. Mr. Akin shares stories from his adventures in Spain, where PSSI International stirred up trouble with Darwinists and caused a tempest that is still raging today. For background information on Mr. Akin's stories, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity, Part One On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Rich Akin from Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity, who shares why he founded the organization for Darwin-doubting doctors and the misinformation about his organization on Wikipedia. Listen in as Mr. Akin explains more about PSSI International. If you are a physician or surgeon who dissents from Darwinism, please consider joining PSSI International here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Uncensored In this episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards interviews Jonathan Witt about Witt’s new book, co-authored with William Dembski, titled Intelligent Design Uncensored. What is ID? Why is it controversial? This book breaks down the science of intelligent design into easy to understand terms and looks at other key cultural questions. Read a full review of the book here. In addition to discussing the book itself, Richards and Witt reveal autobiographical details of how they got involved ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design In this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin interviews Bradley J. Monton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, about his 2009 book Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. As the book's title suggests, Monton is an atheist who feels that some intelligent design (ID) arguments hold merit and are worth taking seriously. Listen to this podcast as Monton explains how ID-critics commonly dismiss the theory through fallacious objection ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Know Your ID Terms: Irreducible Complexity Explained This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from a radio interview Casey Luskin did with Sound Rezn's Alex McFarland, explaining what irreducible complexity really entails. For more terms and information, visit www.intelligentdesign.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolutionary Psychologist: Religion is an "Adaptation" but not a "Universal Acid" On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses recent comments by evolutionary psychologist Matt Rossano disclaiming the idea that evolution poses any threat to belief in God. Yet in his recent book Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved, Rossano contends that religion evolved as an adaptation and was not created by God. "The more we understand evolution, the less it seems neither like the bogey man creationists fear nor the universal god-dissolving acid some atheists crave. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimetics and the Design of the Eye On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin shares his article in the latest issue of Salvo Magazine on how biomimetics points to intelligent design. He also rebuts common objections that the vertebrate eye is “poorly designed.” For more information on Salvo Magazine, check out Salvomag.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Darwinian Evolution a Theory, Fact, or Hypothesis? New Paper Helps Clarify On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses a paper by Northern Arizona University philosopher Peter Kosso that challenges the typical definition of theory used by the Darwin lobby. When attacking opponents, Darwin lobbyists, such as those in the National Academy of Sciences, have defined "theory" as necessarily requiring a vast body of evidence. But is that what "theory" really means? Some people even describe Darwinian evolution to be both theory and fact. Tune in as Luskin c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Meyer Discusses TrueU, a Science & Faith Curriculum for College-Bound Students On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Stephen Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, discusses TrueU, a new DVD project that helps equip students for the big questions on science and faith they're likely to face in college. Meyer talks about the historical relationship between science and faith, the new atheists, and the importance of equipping students with evidence and arguments on both sides of important questions. The first set of 10 sessions – Do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writer, Producer Fred Foote Sets the Record Straight with Alleged On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze interviews filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the new feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee that pitched Darwinian evolution against belief in God. After seeing the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, starring Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy, Foote did his own research into the trial and discovered that Inherit the Wind was "almost exactly wrong" on many cru ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Key Figures in Intelligent Design Measure the Impact of Discovery Institute On this special year-end episode of ID The Future, David Boze celebrates the impact of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture in supporting scientific research and defending academic freedom for scientists, scholars, and others in the intelligent design movement. Boze interviews astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Biologic Institute director Dr. Douglas Axe, and author and Discovery Institute senior fellow Dr. David Berlinski. Says Berlinski: "Nobody else is doing what the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Impact of Signature In the Cell on the ID Debate in Britain On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze interviews CSC Director, Dr. Stephen Meyer about his recent trip to London and new ID developments in the UK. Additionally, they discuss how well Meyer's book Signature in the Cell is holding up to the latest scientific research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Felipe Aizpún Discusses His New Book "Charles Darwin Frente Al Diseño Inteligente" In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews author Felipe Aizpún as they discuss the new volume Charles Darwin Frente Al Diseño Inteligente, a book with contributions in Spanish from various authors critical of Darwinian evolution. Aizpún is a member of the Organización Internacional para el Avance Científico del Diseño Inteligente (OIACDI) and a contributor to the pro-ID Spanish blog, ¿Darwin o DI?. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Senator Joe Lieberman on Intelligent Design & the "Anti-Science" Label On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze interviews former vice-presidential candidate Senator Joe Lieberman on seeing the hand of a designer in nature and the label of "anti-science" being attached to those who see evidence of design in nature. Lieberman also relates anecdotes from his recently co-authored book The Gift of Rest with Discovery Institute senior fellow and Evolution News & Views editor David Klinghoffer. Get more information on The Gift of Rest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whales: New "Icon of Evolution" or a Challenge to Darwinian Theory? On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses a recent fossil discovery that puts a kink in the evolutionary explanation of whales. Evolutionists claim that whales evolved from fully terrestrial mammals to fully aquatic ones in 5-10 million years. The new fossil find of a whale jaw bone shrinks that number considerably, making a shaky theory even shakier. Luskin explains that it's highly unlikely that the number of changes needed for such a transformation could occur in such a sm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitler & Darwin, pt. 2: Richard Weikart on Evolutionary Ethics On this episode of ID The Future, the second of two in this series, host David Boze continues a discussion with Discovery Institute fellow Dr. Richard Weikart, author of two books exploring the links between Darwinian theory and Nazism. On this podcast, Weikart talks about the moral and logical challenges involving evolutionary ethics. Is morality simply "an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate", as biologists Michael Ruse and E. L. Wilson suggest? What did Darwin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitler & Darwin, pt. 1: Richard Weikart Responds to Recent Claims Against his Books On this episode of ID The Future, the first of two on this topic, Discovery Institute fellow Dr. Richard Weikart discusses his response to critics of his work showing the links between Darwinian theory and Nazism. "It's clear that he [Hitler] uses Darwinian terminology and concepts quite frequently, not only in Mein Kampf but also in his second book and in many of the speeches..." Tune in to find out what Weikart's critics are saying and how he refutes their claims. Weikart is the author o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Goes to Trial in Anti-ID Discrimination Case On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze interviews Joshua Youngkin, a legal affairs analyst at the Discovery Institute, about new developments in the case of David Coppedge, a former employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, who was demoted and later fired for discussing intelligent design. Youngkin provides background on Coppedge's tenure at JPL and gives insight into the legal basis for the discrimination lawsuit that will now go before a jury trial. "This is a case that comes unde ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial 20th Anniversary: Phillip Johnson Looks Back and Forward On this episode of ID The Future, we hear from Phillip Johnson on the 20th anniversary of his seminal book Darwin on Trial, which challenged mainstream beliefs about Darwinian evolution and inspired many scientists and scholars of the modern intelligent design movement. With characteristic wit and humor, Johnson talks about the reaction to his book and his hopes for the future of the debate and the ID movement. Johnson: "If we keep explaining the truth and adopting ever more creative ways ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial 20th Anniversary: Stephen Meyer on Phillip Johnson's Courage On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture and author of Signature in the Cell: DNA & the Evidence for Intelligent Design, honors Phillip Johnson, the U.C. Berkeley law professor that helped launch the modern intelligent design movement with the 1991 publication of his book Darwin on Trial. Meyer says Johnson had the courage to speak up when others don't: "The over-weening dynamic of this debate is fear. There a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial 20th Anniversary: Paul Nelson and Jonathan Wells Pay Tribute On this episode of ID The Future, two men influenced by Phillip Johnson's 1991 book Darwin on Trial pay tribute. At a recent event celebrating Johnson's impact, biologist and professor Dr. Paul Nelson says "the strongest cultural influence that the intelligent design community has had has been through its books - they change lives." Dr. Jonathan Wells, a cell and developmental biologist, credits Johnson with convincing him that the evidence for common ancestry, a pillar of Darwinian evoluti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial 20th Anniversary: James Kushiner on Phillip Johnson's "Gift" On this episode of ID The Future, James Kushiner, author, journalist, and editor of Touchstone Magazine, pays tribute to the mettle of Phillip Johnson in writing his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. The book inspired skeptics of Darwinian evolution across the disciplines and helped establish the modern intelligent design movement. Kushiner says Johnson "helped neutralize the acid of Darwinism that has devoured the sight of so many who have lost the ability to see the beauty in creation." Visit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial 20th Anniversary: Darwinian Evolution's "Wrecking Ball" On this episode of ID The Future, Host David Boze kicks off the celebration by setting the stage. He first takes us back to 1925, where Darwinian evolution seemingly won the day in the infamous Scopes Trial. Fast forward to 1991. Evolutionary theory is back on trial. Harvard graduate and University of California at Berkley law professor Phillip Johnson publishes Darwin on Trial. The controversial book questions how much we really know about the supposedly unchallengeable theory of evolution ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alleged, pt. 3: Recreating History, Hollywood Style On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West goes “on the set” for an interview with filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the new feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. In this final part of a three-part interview, Fred Foote discusses what it was like producing a film about one of the most famous trials in American history. Alleged is now available on DVD and Blu-ray at Amazon.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alleged, pt. 3: Recreating History, Hollywood Style On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West goes “on the set” for an interview with filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the new feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. In this final part of a three-part interview, Fred Foote discusses what it was like producing a film about one of the most famous trials in American history. Alleged is now available on DVD and Blu-ray at Amazon.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alleged, pt. 2: Debunking the Biggest Myths about the Scopes Trial On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West goes “on the set” for an interview with filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the new feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. In this second part of a three-part interview, Fred Foote discusses the biggest myths about the Scopes trial that he hopes his film will shatter. Alleged is now available on DVD and Blu-ray at Amazon.com and other re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alleged, pt. 1: The Story Behind the New Film that Seeks to Replace Inherit the Wind On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West goes “on the set” for an interview with filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the new feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. In this first part of a three-part interview, Fred Foote discusses what inspired him to do a new film on the Scopes trial. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Ocean Apart: New Fossils Challenge Common Ancestry On this episode of ID the Future, David Boze interviews Casey Luskin about recently discovered fossils that have inspired Darwinists to develop wild and speculative explanations. Fossils of the Hoatzin bird have previously been found exclusively in South America, but were recently uncovered in Africa--clear on the other side of the Atlantic. As Darwinists struggle to fit the discovery of these fossils into their doctrine of common descent, it becomes apparent that regardless of what new ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Frankenstein: Giovanni Aldini On this special Halloween edition of ID the Future, John West shares the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In his book, Darwin Day in America, West examines the experiments of Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini, conducted on human corpses. His gruesome experiments provided the inspiration for Frankenstein and foreshadowed the rise of a virulent strain of materialism that attempted to use science to reduce human beings to mere matter in motion. Want to read instead? Here's the o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prof. John Lennox on his new book Seven Days that Divide the World On this episode of ID The Future, Jay Richards talks with Professor and author John Lennox about one of his latest books, Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science. Lennox wrote the book after discovering many people who waver between the message of the Bible and the message of science. Lennox discusses ways of interpreting scripture that don't compromise its authority. "I don't want to say anything less than what scripture says, but I don't want to sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Anti-Science": Unpacking a Vague & Distorted Label On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze discusses the ambiguous label "anti-science". What does it mean? What are the implications? Who's using it? The term is being bandied about, not just in science journals and newspapers, but in the political arena as well, as typified by the recent comments of Utah governor Jon Huntsman: "The minute that the Republican party becomes the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people that would otherwise allow us t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Brain Just an Illusion? On this episode of ID The Future, Anika Smith interviews science writer Denyse O'Leary about her book, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul. In the book O'Leary and her co-author Mario Beaurogard, neuroscientist and Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, explore the question of whether or not the mind is an illusion as materialists believe. The Spiritual Brain looks at whether religious experiences come from God or are merely the random firin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prof. John Lennox Responds to Stephen Hawking with New Book In this edition of ID The Future, John Lennox discusses his latest book, God and Stephen Hawking, a response to Hawking’s recent work The Grand Design. In his book, Hawking attempts to provide answers to life’s grandest questions. Why is there something rather than nothing? When and how did the universe begin? What is the nature of reality? In his response, Lennox questions Hawking’s attempts to refute the need for a creator. “To offer people a choice between God and science as exp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Not) Making the Grade: Recent Textbooks and Their Treatment of Evolution In this edition of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses a newly updated report on 22 recent textbooks and their treatment of evolution and intelligent design. In 2000, Jonathan Wells published a review of textbooks in his popular book Icons of Evolution. He discovered that many textbooks presented inaccurate or incomplete information about evolution and either omitted or undermined alternative viewpoints. Wells' criteria is used again 11 years later. Tune in to find out what has changed. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Materialism and Human Dignity On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook, on the relationship between the mind and the brain. Listen in as Dr. Egnor explains how a materialist understanding of the mind undermines human dignity, affecting bioethics, criminal law, and ultimately how we treat one another as human beings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metamorphosis Video Exclusive: Transformation is Still a Mystery In this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Ann Gauger, senior research scientist at the Biologic Institute, recognizes that metamorphosis is still an unknown phenomenon for scientists: "We know just the bare outlines of a few of the processes involved for metamorphosis - it's a mystery." Watch this video clip, not available anywhere else, for more! Visit www.metamorphosisthefilm.com to purchase the DVD/Blu-ray and download a FREE digital companion book! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metamorphosis Video Exclusive: Metamorphosis Phenomenon is Widespread In this episode of ID The Future, Dr. Ann Gauger, senior research scientist at the Biologic Institute, discusses how prevalent the process of metamorphosis is in the animal kingdom. What are the advantages of such a procedure? How does it benefit organisms? Watch this video clip, not available anywhere else, to find out! Visit www.metamorphosisthefilm.com to purchase the DVD/Blu-ray and download a FREE digital companion book! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Back: David Berlinski's The Deniable Darwin This episode of ID the Future features David Berslinski on his book, The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays and the identity he found as a scientific critic and his notorious Commentary essay attacking Darwinian theory. Listen in as Berlinski discusses origin of life research, the essay he considers his best, and the legacy of Darwin's On the Origins of Species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Alastair Noble Discusses the ID Movement in the UK On this episode of ID the Future, Joshua Youngkin interviews Dr. Alastiar Noble, director of the Centre for Intelligent Design, about the debate over ID in the UK. The discussion hones in on Intelligent Design in the science education setting as they contrast the differences and similarities between the ID movements in the U.S. and the UK. Dr. Alastair Noble studied chemistry and did research at the University of Glasgow. He has been a high school chemistry teacher, adviser, schools inspec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metamorphosis Video Exclusive: Dr. Ann Gauger Discusses Limits of Natural Selection In this special video edition of ID The Future, Dr. Ann Gauger, senior research scientist at Biologic Institute, discusses why natural selection is unable to account for the many changes that occur during butterfly metamorphosis. According to recent research, as many as six or more steps are required to change the function of just one protein. How does this relate to the numerous physical, hormonal, and cellular changes required to turn a larva into a butterfly? What would coordinate all th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin's Tree of Life Splinters On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a keen-eyed look at Darwin's tree of life and finds that common descent, far from being confirmed by the data, is actually contradicted by it, as New Scientist pointed out in a recent cover story, "Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life." Listen in to learn how the data is challenging Darwinist assumptions, and check out "A Primer on the Tree of Life" for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 3: James Le Fanu on Scientific Limitations On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. James Le Fanu concludes his talk on big science with insight into its increasingly dogmatic tendencies. Science seems to be discovering its boundaries as it becomes laden with more and more indigestible facts. In this third and final segment of the three-part series, Dr. Le Fanu addresses the phenomenon and the paradox of science today as it finds itself limited by materialist assumptions. Dr. James Le Fanu is a critically acclaimed science writer and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deepening Darwin's Dilemma with Jonathan Wells This episode of ID the Future features biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells, who explains why Darwin saw the Cambrian explosion as a serious argument against his theory. Darwin countered it by supposing that fossils of the ancestors of Cambrian animals once existed, but were destroyed. Listen in and learn how the discovery of microscopic and soft-bodied Precambrian fossils makes Darwin’s excuse sound hollow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimetics and the Positive Implications for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin looks at Biomimetics, a new movement in science that adapts designs from nature to solve problems in engineering, materials science, medicine, and other fields. While engineers and other researchers turn to nature for guidance and inspiration in producing human technology, the positive implications for intelligent design grow. Should scientists consider the possibility that biological systems, which outperform human technology, were intelligent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2: James Le Fanu on the Mystery of Life On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. James Le Fanu continues his talk on the state of scientific study today. Despite the general belief that new discoveries in genetics and neuroscience would soon reveal the secret of life, we have instead found that recent findings in these fields have unveiled even more mysteries. Listen in as Dr. Le Fanu discusses the perplexities that we have stumbled upon in this age of scientific exploration. Dr. James Le Fanu is a critically acclaimed science wr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 1: James Le Fanu and the Current State of Science On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. James Le Fanu explains why this era of big science is both "the best of times and the worst of times." Despite lavish funding of mega research projects, we are not seeing the same returns that we had a century ago with breakthrough discoveries of the fundamental laws of nature. Has the methodology of science reaches its limits? In Part 1 of this three-part series, Le Fanu explores the significance of science today and the confines and opportunities that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recently Reported Fossil is Old News: Media Hype & the Upcoming Election On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on the recent excitement over the fossil Australopithecus sediba, which is being evangelized by media outlets as a hominid ancestor, despite the fact that the fossils were first reported almost a year and a half ago. Should we buy into the hype? Tune in to the discussion as Luskin examines the sudden resurrection of this story and why many scientists dismiss the fossil as evidence of an ape-hominid transition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Economics: Capitalism or Marxism? Does Darwinism lend support more naturally to a capitalist moral-economic perspective or to a Marxist one? On this episode of ID the Future, David Klinghoffer explores the deep Darwinian roots of Communism. Klinghoffer argues that while Marx had already begun sketching the outlines of his ideas before Darwin published the Origin of Species, he is fairly called a Darwinist; and the men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary think ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AFA's Attorney Discusses Intelligent Design's Vindication in the CSC Settlement On this episode of ID the Future, Joshua Youngkin interviews William Becker of the Becker Law firm, the attorney who represented the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) in their lawsuit against the California Science Center (CSC). Listen in as Bill Becker offers his perspective as a front line defender of free speech in this historic case for intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defending the First Amendment: Implications of the Recent CSC Settlement On this episode of ID the Future, Joshua Youngkin interviews Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman about the implications of the recent lawsuit between the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) and the California Science Center (CSC). The CSC, a government-run institution, canceled the AFA's screening of Darwin's Dilemma in an act of censorship of the intelligent design viewpoint and violation of first amendment rights. Chapman discusses why the CSC's agreement to pay $110,000 to the AFA is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CSC Emails Expose Censorship of Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses the viewpoint discrimination that resulted in the cancellation of a pro-ID film by the California Science Center (CSC). While the CSC is publicly giving one account of why they cancelled the event and broke their contract with the American Freedom Alliance (AFA), private emails disclose their stated reason as a mere pretext. Listen in as Luskin details the revealing evidence of the CSC's active intolerance of ID. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website California Science Center Pays $110,000 to Settle Intelligent Design Discrimination Lawsuit On this episode of ID the Future, Joshua Youngkin and Casey Luskin discuss the recent settlement in the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) v. California Science Center (CSC) lawsuit. In the settlement, CSC paid AFA over $100,000 to avoid a public trial that would have exposed evidence of viewpoint discrimination against intelligent design. Listen in as Luskin and Youngkin discuss some of the evidence in this case that shows discrimination and intolerance against ID. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classic Darwinist Tactics: When the Evidence Fails, Strategize! On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin finishes up his review of Karl Giberson and Francis Collins’ The Language of Science and Faith. In this sixth and final part of Luskin's review, he delves into a discussion about the contradictions, irony, and appeals to authority that permeate the book. Listen to this podcast to hear why Giberson and Collins resort to such tactics. Is the evidence for Darwinian evolution really as conclusive as they would have you believe? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Politics Have to Do With it? Darwinian Evolution & the Presidential Campaign Back in 2007, Darwinian evolution arose as a hot topic during the presidential campaign for the 2008 election. Now, as we draw ever nearer to 2012, presidential candidates are once again being put in the spotlight for their views on evolution, as we are even now witnessing with the recent scrutiny of Rick Perry. On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage takes a look at why it even matters whether or not the President accepts Darwinian evolution. Why has it become so necessary for politic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micro to Macro: Neo-Darwinists Give Small Evidence for Big Claims On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin exposes how evidence given for macroevolution in The Language of Science and Faith is too weak to hold any weight. In their book, Francis Collins and Karl Giberson make the all-too-common claim that macroevolution is merely microevolution over a prolonged period of time. Are the proposed mechanisms really as simple as they sound? Luskin discusses the insufficiency of Collins and Gibersons' argument in Part 5 of his continued review of The Langu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Humans Share A Common Ancestry With Neanderthals? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin tackles another neo-Darwinian assertion made by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins in The Language of Science and Faith. In their book, Giberson and Collins capitalize on the popular notion of Neanderthals as brutish, non-human, cavemen like beasts in order to bloster their claims about common ancestry. Is this view of Neanderthals accurate? Do experts agree that Neanderthals are drastically different from early humans? What does this mean for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking the Darwinian Explanation of the Eye on Faith On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin tackles another neo-Darwinian assertion made by Giberson and Collins in The Language of Science and Faith. In their book, Giberson and Collins make an offhand statement that a series of mutations can lead to such a novel structure as the eye. However, they fail to give any citation or discuss any evidence to back up this claim. Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, let's take a look at the science behind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birds of a Feather: Darwinian Evolution Stumped by Novel Features On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his review of Giberson and Collins' The Language of Science and Faith, citing recent advancements in developmental biology that overturn their assertion that feathers evolved from elongated scales. Although Giberson and Collins have claimed the evolution of the feather as a prime example of novel features arising by random mutation, more recent findings show how evolutionary biology is failing to provide an explanation for how this co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pseudogenes Shrink Gaps for Theistic Darwinian Evolutionists Collins & Giberson On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinian evolutionists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk, "broken DNA." The pseudogene is their centerpiece evidence for common descent and macroevolution in their new book, The Language of Science and Faith. This leaves them hard-pressed as we learn more about biology, genetics and biochemistry, finding function for non-coding DNA, including pseudogenes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Antithesis On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage discusses the new atheists' approach to religion as a byproduct of evolution. Citing new research which shows that some religious beliefs and ways of processing are innate and are thus not accumulated by experience, Gage explains why the new atheists' views are unfairly biased against religious beliefs and why they are ultimately self-defeating. For more information on this topic, visit FaithandEvolution.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Threatening the Pharyngula--The Debate With PZ Myers on Evidence from Embryology In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on the recent debate between biology professor PZ Myers and Evolution News & Views contributors on evidence from embryological development. Do patterns in embryology really support evolutionary biology? Listen to this podcast and discover what the evidence shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anders Behring Breivik Shows That Ideas Really Do Have Consequences As the world reacts to the depravity of Anders Breivik's cold-blooded killings, the mainstream media is quick to label the heinous crimes as an act of fundamentalist Christian terrorism. Is this really the complete story of Breivik's underlying motivations? In his manifesto, Breivik explicitly identifies himself as a Christian, but at the same time makes it clear that he views the label as a pragmatic political tool, not a religious statement. In this episode of ID the Future, John West giv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recent articles confirm the thesis of Jonathan Wells' The Myth of Junk DNA Dr. Jonathan Wells' The Myth of Junk DNA asserts that making baseless assumptions in scientific investigation puts a stop to further inquiry and the potential of innovative discovery. In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how Dr. Well's thesis continues to be confirmed as several articles, published since The Myth of Junk DNA, contribute to the downfall of the "junk DNA" concept through the discovery of previously overlooked functions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution's Glass Ceiling On this episode of ID the Future, acclaimed author and Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer takes a look at the academic freedom -- or lack thereof -- for scientists who support intelligent design, scientists who are forced to don disguises and go underground in order to protect their careers. This podcast is based on Mr. Klinghoffer's commentary in Townhall Magazine, "Evolution's Glass Ceiling." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Design of Life: What the Evidence of Biological Systems Reveals On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems with author Dr. William Dembski. Is design in nature just an "illusion," as Richard Dawkins proclaims? Dembski and co-author Dr. Jonathan Wells show the answer is "no." Biologists have and continue to use the assumption of design successfully, precisely because design in biology is not an illusion but real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discussion and commentary on publisher Failing to comply with Texas science standards CSC's Josh Youngkin interviews Casey Luskin about the Texas State Board of Education's current review of supplemental curriculum materials for use in science classess. Many of the materials submitted have not complied with the state's science standards which require students to"to “analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligently Designed Nanotechnology As Casey Luskin reveals in this episode of ID the Future, eminent biologists have said that they must continually remind themselves that what they see in biology evolved, and was not designed. But now engineers are turning to biology to replace human technology because biological pathways provide superior solutions to biomedical-technological needs. Is this trend more consistent with an evolved biosphere, or an intelligent designed one? Listen to this podcast and decide for yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientific Reasons to Reject an Atheistic Worldview On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews CSC senior fellow Dr. Mike Keas, author and expert on science pedagogy. Dr. Keas discusses True U, a worldview curriculum aimed at high school and college students. Dr. Keas contributes to the teaching resources and blog at TrueU.org. Listen in as they talk about the impact of the New Atheists and how scientifically-based arguments such as intelligent design have religious implications. True U is an extraordinary new resource to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francis Collins and Evolution On this video episode of ID the Future, God and Evolution contributors and other scholars respond to Francis Collins’ defense of theistic evolution in his book The Language of God. God and Evolution was just named World Magazine's "Book of the Year" for 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on Intelligent Design Critics of intelligent design sometimes claim they are defending the principles of American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson in trying to ban discussions of intelligent design. In the words of one writer, "Thomas Jefferson makes it quite clear that there was not a consensus of support among the authors of the Constitution... to support theological doctrines such as intelligent design." But would Thomas Jefferson himself agree? In this special July 4th edition of ID the Future, Discovery Ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution and the Problem of Evil Can Darwin save God from the problem of evil? On this video episode of ID the Future, God and Evolution editor Jay Richards discusses the problem of evil and why Darwinian evolution does not resolve it, contrary to claims by some theistic evolutionists. God and Evolution was just named World Magazine's "Book of the Year" for 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Evolution, God, and Morality On this video episode of ID the Future, God and Evolution contributor John West discusses the implications of Darwin’s theory for belief in God and for the understanding of ethics. Is there a logical connection between unguided Darwinism and atheism? Does Darwinism affect our moral reasoning? Watch the video to find out. God and Evolution was just named World Magazine's "Book of the Year" for 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Front-Loading and Theistic Evolution This video episode of ID the Future features Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell, discussing the proposal of some theistic evolutionists that all of God's design of the world must have been "front-loaded" at the beginning of the universe. This is based on his essay in God & Evolution Protestants, Catholics and Jews Explore Darwin's Challenge to Faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitler's Ethic and the Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress in Nazi Policy On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews historian Richard Weikart on his book, now out in paperback, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, and how Darwinism influenced and inspired much of Nazi ideology. Weikart's provocative book, out tomorrow, argues that Hitler's immorality was not the result of ignoring or rejecting ethics, but rather came from embracing a coherent -- albeit pernicious -- ethic of improving the human race through "evolutionary progr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg discusses modern genomics and junk DNA On this episode of ID The Future, Biologic Institute's Dr. Richard Sternberg explains what a gene is, how it works and how our understanding of genes and DNA has changed over the years. He also discusses the growing number of discoveries that are overturning the notion of junk DNA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Skeptic David Berlinski on Peer-Review and the Scientific Bureaucracy On this episode of ID the Future, David Berlinski explains how peer-review REALLY works in a conversation with Discovery President Bruce Chapman. David Berlinski's book, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions is now available in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID Scientist Douglas Axe Responds to His Critics On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Biologic Institute Director Douglas Axe about his response to critics of his peer-reviewed paper in Journal of Molecular Biology. Critics such as Arthur Hunt and Steve Matheson, have argued that Dr. Axe's paper should not be seen as supporting intelligent design. Of course, the author of the paper in question should be trusted to have the best perspective on the subject. Tune in and hear what Dr. Axe has to say as he corrects the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Science Is an Established Church" Says Skeptic David Berlinski On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman talks with David Berlinski about the threatened establishment in science and the history of persecuted minority views, and Berlinski's own view that "Science is an established church." David Berlinski's book, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions is available in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When It's Wise to Question the Scientific Consensus On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC Senior Fellow Jay Richards about when it's wise to doubt a "scientific consensus." With growing skepticism on issues where the public is told that scientific consensus exists -- most notably Darwinian evolution, but also climate change. How can we tell if the consensus is based on social pressure or on scientific evidence? Listen in, and be sure to read Dr. Richards' article at The American here. For more articles from Dr. Richar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discussing the New Exoplanet With Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Have scientists discovered a planet with possible life on it? On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery. As the co-originator of the Galactic Habitable Zone, Dr. Gonzalez knows better than anyone what it takes for a planet to sustain life. Listen in as he tells us whether the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 581g is habitable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Insurmountable Problem for Darwinian Evolution On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his interview with Dr. Ann Gauger, senior researcher at the Biologic Institute, about her experimental work evolving enzymes in the lab, honing in on how complex and specified enzymes are generated and testing Darwinian predictions experimentally. Listen in as she share what her most recent study discovered about an insurmountable problem for evolution. Ann Gauger is a senior research scientist at the Biologic Institute. Her work us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolving Enzymes and Testing Darwin's Theory With Ann Gauger On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews biologist Ann Gauger, who discusses her new research paper with Doug Axe, recently published in BIO-Complexity. Listen in as Dr. Gauger shares how she tested the changes necessary to evolve enzymes by a Darwinian mechanism, and stay tuned as she shares the results on our next podcast. Ann Gauger is a senior research scientist at the Biologic Institute. Her work uses molecular genetics and genomic engineering to study the origin, or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Primate Phylogenetics Challenge Darwin's Tree of Life On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on a new study showing a very tangled phylogenetic tree for primate. Listen in as Luskin shows how researchers trying to create a primate phylogenetic tree are finding it isn't as easy as they'd hoped. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of the Myth of Junk DNA This episode of ID the Future features a clip from Discovery Senior Fellow, biologist Jonathan Wells, whose new book, The Myth of Junk DNA, is out now. Where did this idea of junk DNA come from? How did it become the dominant view of science? And what's the problem with this argument? Listen in as he explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newspeak in Biology Erases Design in Favor of Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a look at a startling new phenomenon: some ID critics today are so fearful of lending any credence towards intelligent design that they are recommending that biologists stop using the word "design" entirely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So-Called "Junk"-DNA Betrays Darwinian Predictions Evolutionists have long cited pseudogenes as a type of "junk" DNA that demonstrates an unguided evolutionary origin of the genome, but what if this Darwinian mindset is setting us up to miss important biological functions of pseudogenes? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how the research shows that pseudogenes are increasingly found to have function. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitler's Ethic and the Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress in Nazi Policy On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews historian Richard Weikart on his book, now out in paperback, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, and how Darwinism influenced and inspired much of Nazi ideology. Weikart's provocative book, out tomorrow, argues that Hitler's immorality was not the result of ignoring or rejecting ethics, but rather came from embracing a coherent -- albeit pernicious -- ethic of improving the human race through "evolutionary progr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientocracy Rules Welcome to the Scientocracy, where unless you fully accede to the consensus view, then your opinion not only doesn't matter, it might even be dangerous. On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin shows how a recent move to redefine scientific literacy from an understanding of science into wholesale capitulation to the "consensus" damages true scientific literacy -- including the right to debate and dissent. Luskin's article appeared in Salvo Magazine. For more information on Salvo, visi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom a Possibility in Tennessee On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews Joshua Youngkin about the academic freedom bill that passed in the Tennessee House. Why does a bill that actually encourages more teaching on evolution threaten Darwin-lobbyists? Tune in to find out, and stay tuned to Evolution News & Views as we track the bill in the TN legislature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Evolution Have to Do With Immunology? Not Much On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews microbiologist and immunologist Donald Ewert about his previous work as associate editor for the journal Development and Comparitive Immunology, where he realized that the papers published were comparative studies that had nothing to do with evolution at all. Listen in to learn how, in Dr. Ewert's words, "evolutionary theory doesn't contribute to experimental biology." Donald L. Ewert is a research immunologist/virologist who spent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morality in a Meaningless World: An Interview With Rabbi Moshe Averick What happens to morality when the world has no meaning? On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick, who discusses his book, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist. Rabbi Averick ran educational programs at UCLA and Northridge University in Los Angeles, and then became one of the founding faculty members of Aish Toronto and later at the Shaalvim Rabbinical Seminary in Israel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of Atheists On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick on the new atheists’ search for meaning in a meaningless world — and a better way forward to find truth through open debate. Rabbi Averick is the author of the new book, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist. He ran educational programs at UCLA and Northridge University in Los Angeles, and then became one of the founding faculty members of Aish Toro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of Life and the New Atheists Why is the origin of life so important when it comes to the debate between the new atheists and those who see evidence for intelligent design? On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick on the clues he gleaned from the new atheists themselves. Rabbi Averick is the author of the new book, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist. He ran educational programs at UCLA and Northridge University in Los ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science, Philosophy, and the Arts: An Interview With Nancy Pearcey On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC fellow Nancy Pearcey, who discusses her recent book, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning. Listen in as Mrs. Pearcey explains how naturalism filtered down to the public imagination from Darwin to art, literature, and film. Check out a recent review of the book at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist What is a rational response when you’re confronted with nonsense of a high order? On this episode of ID the Future, CSC fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick, who explains the rational course for countering the new atheists. Rabbi Averick is the author of the new book, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist. He ran educational programs at UCLA and Northridge University in Los Angeles, and then became one of the founding faculty members of A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching the Controversy in South Korea: An Interview with Biology Teacher Roger DeHart On this episode of ID the Future Anika Smith interviews biology teacher Roger DeHart about teaching the strengths and weaknesses of evolution in South Korea. Mr. DeHart famously taught both sides of Darwin's theory in a Burlington, WA, public school biology class, as documented in the film Icons Of Evolution. Tune in and learn why academic freedom on evolution in education is so necessary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Interview with Devil's Delusion Author David Berlinski David Berlinski has been accused of being many things, but speechless is not one of them. In this short interview clip he addresses a range of scientific and philosophical issues that he expanded on his book The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testing Evolution and Finding It Wanting: An Interview With Douglas Axe On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his interview with Biologic Institute director Douglas Axe about his new paper, "The Limit of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations," in BIO-Complexity. Listen in as Dr. Axe reports on the work done at Biologic Institute to test whether amino acids are able to be converted from one function to another in Darwinian step-wise fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benjamin Wiker on Darwin, the Man and the Myth On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. What were Darwin's actual religious and philosophical views? Are atheists abusing Darwin's theory when they say Darwinism supports their atheist belief? Listen in as Dr. Wiker answers and explains the natural outgrowth of Social Darwinism from Darwin's theory. Listen to previous IDTF episodes featuring Dr. Wiker here and here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Complex Adaptations Challenge Darwinian Evolution: An Interview With Douglas Axe On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Biologic Insitute director Douglas Axe about his peer-reviewed paper in BIO-Complexity, "The Limit of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations." Dr. Axe explains complex adaptations — adaptive changes that require more than one simple mutation to a genome in order for a particular adaptation to work — and the difficulty Darwinian evolution faces when beneficial mutations have ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bat and Whale Echolocation Genes Point to Common Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the convergent genetic evolution of bat and whale echolocation, a surprise to the neo-Darwinian model, as common inheritance makes no sense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for Intelligent Design? On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC senior fellow Jay Richards, who explains what the artificial intelligence of computers, like IBM's Watson, mean for intelligent design. Dr. Richards is an author and editor of several books, including Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Nothing In Biology Make Sense Except in the Light of Evolution? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the lament of some Darwinists that new PhDs aren't being taught enough about evolution. How can "a generation of biologists without an adequate background in evolution" work as scientists? Tune in to find out the answer is so obvious that few committed evolutionists will accept it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pro-ID Paper Examines Irreducible Complexity of Birds in Flight On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on a new peer-reviewed paper arguing for the irreducible complexity of two systems vital to bird flight — feathers and the avian respiratory system. The author, Leeds University professor Andy McIntosh, challenges his critics to consider the design hypothesis as a valid scientific assumption "borne out by the evidence itself." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NCSE's Eugenie Scott Serves as Chief of Darwinian Thought Police On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reviews various comments from NCSE's Eugenie Scott as she flip-flopped on astronomer Martin Gaskell's qualifications for teaching, first saying he accepted evolution and so was qualified and later retracting her endorsement and incorrectly labeling him an "ID-creationist." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marsupial Embryos Challenge Common Ancestry On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the pattern of development for marsupial embryos and how they challenge common ancestry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Arsenal of Smoking Guns in the Martin Gaskell Academic Freedom Case This special academic freedom edition of ID the Future features an interview with Frank Manion, senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, who represented astronomer Martin Gaskell in a recent lawsuit against the University of Kentucky (UK). By all appearances, UK denied Dr. Gaskell a job because of his perceived views on evolution and religious beliefs. Mr. Manion sheds light on what is an unfortunately common procedure in academia. Listen in as Mr. Manion shares reveal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA's JPL Fires Cassini Mission Admin Who Filed Discrimination Lawsuit This episode of ID the Future features a special report on the academic freedom case of David Coppedge, who was fired last week by NASA's JPL after filing a discrimination lawsuit. Coppedge was targeted by his employer for his views on intelligent design. David Coppedge is not alone, but he needs your help. Please stand with us against our government’s firing of David Coppedge. Get ready now to call or email Charles Bolden, NASA's administrator, phone: 202-358-1010; email: , to send a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Icons of Evolution 10th Anniversary: Jay Richards On this special video episode of ID the Future, CSC research director Jay Richards discusses Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution, "a silent killer" for textbooks pushing Darwinian evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Updating the Icons of Evolution: Archeopteryx On this video episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells returns to one of the icons of Darwin's theory documented in his book, Icons of Evolution: Archeopteryx. What do we make of the search for the ancestor of modern birds? Watch and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolutionism and Rational Knowledge: An Interview with Felipe Aizpún On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Felipe Aizpún, author of (Evolutionism and rational knowledge), a great resource for those who want to learn about intelligent design in Spanish. Listen in as Mr. Aizpún explains how evolution is not only a scientific issue, but a philosophical and epistemic one, and discusses the dissent from Darwinism in the Spanish-speaking world Mr. Aizpún has written widely on philosophy, ethics and science, and he is the Editorial Directo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Top Five News Stories in the Debate Between Evolution and Intelligent Design for 2010 Which news stories pushed the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution forward? Find out on this episode of ID the Future as Access Research Network executive director Dennis Wagner gives us the final countdown for the Top Ten Science Stories of 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fruit Flies and Fossil Tracks Were Bad News for Darwin in 2010 How did fruit flies and fossil tracks derail the Darwinian paradigm in 2010? Listen to this episode of ID the Future as Access Research Network executive director Dennis Wagner begins a countdown of the Top Ten Science Stories of 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Beautifully Engineered Universe: Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, continues the discussion of his peer-reviewed paper, "The Coherence Of An Engineered World," published in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Listen in as Dr. Halsmer explains some of the aesthetic arguments for design from beauty in science, engineering, and the study of humanity. How do modularity, specificity, adaptability, durabili ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ARN’s Top 10 Darwin and Design Science Stories of 2010 Each year at this time the Access Research Network releases several lists of the top intelligent design and evolution related stories of the past year. It’s a great reminder of all the interesting stories, and the incredible amount of science that goes on each year in support of intelligent design. ARN executive director Dennis Wagner joins Casey Luskin in this first of three podcasts about 2010’s top ID science stories. You can browse all of ARN’s top ten lists here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of a Scientific Mind: Dr. Dominic Halsmer On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, shares how he became fascinated by science and engineering. Great pedagogy involves making education fun, a principle he learned at a young age. Listen to his stories of scientific experiments (and mishaps) in his family and how he came to understand intelligent design as a scientific enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for an Engineered Universe On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, discusses his recent peer-reviewed paper, "The Coherence Of An Engineered World," published in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Listen in as Dr. Halsmer explains to Casey Luskin why the universe is bio-friendly and the signs of engineering he sees in Nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Behe: Challenging Darwin, One Peer-Reviewed Paper at a Time On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Michael Behe on his new peer-reviewed scientific paper in Quarterly Review of Biology. Dr. Behe explains why most examples of evolution in bacteria and viruses entail loss or modification of function rather than gain of a new function at the molecular level. In Behe’s view, this could pose a challenge to Darwinian explanations of molecular evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Masterful Feat of Courtroom Deception": Immunologist Donald Ewert on Dover On this episode of ID the Future, research immunologist and virologist Dr. Donald L. Ewert gives his take on the discussion of the evolution of the immune system that happened five years ago today in Dover, Pennsylvania. Was Michael Behe correct to argue in the Kitzmiller case that there isn't a Darwinian explanation for the origin of the immune system? Listen in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Church of Science: Losing Our Religion? On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer examines the ways the Church of Science is losing its congregants -- and why that points to hope for shifting paradigms and the retreat of materialist dogmatism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A True Skeptic Is an Informed Skeptic: Dr. Donald L. Ewert on Why He Doubts Darwin On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Donald L. Ewert, an original signer of the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, explains how he became interested in the debate over evolution. Dr. Ewert received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1976. As a microbiologist, he operated a research laboratory at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia for almost twenty years. The Wistar Institute is one of the world's leading centers for biomedical research. His research, supported by National Insti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Behe on the Impact of Icons of Evolution On this special video episode of ID the Future, Michael Behe talks about the impact of Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Scientist Speaks: Dr. Donald L. Ewert On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Donald L. Ewert shares with Casey Luskin about his work at the Wistar Institute and the curious and questioning mind that led him into scientific research, where he discovered how science and philosophy are intertwined. Dr. Ewert received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1976. As a microbiologist, he operated a research laboratory at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia for almost twenty years. The Wistar Institute is one of the world's lead ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with National Academy of Sciences Member Philip Skell, Part One In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Philip S. Skell, Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skell discusses his research, which has included work on reactive intermediates in chemistry, free-atom reactions, and reactions of free carbonium ions. Dr. Skell is a signer of Discovery Institute's "Dissent from Darwinism" list, and he is the author of "Why Do We Invoke Darwin?: Evolutionary theory contri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating 10 Years of Icons: Jonathan Wells Updates Darwin's Tree of Life On this special video episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells revisits one of the "icons of evolution" ten years after the publication of his now-classic book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering Dr. Philip Skell This special episode of ID the Future remembers a bold and courageous voice for objectivity in science, Dr. Philip Skell, who died last week. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) since 1977, "Phil" was Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and his research included work on reactive intermediates in chemistry such as carbene molecules, free-atom reactions, and reactions of free carbonium ions. Later in his career, Phil became a skeptic of neo-Dar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Intelligent Design of the Immune System On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Donald L. Ewert continues to explain why the vertebrate adaptive immune system does not use “random” or “chance” processes like Darwinian evolution to generate antibody diversity. Instead, he argues that the immune system is intelligently designed. Listen in as Dr. Ewert shares one of the most interesting stories in science, the generation of antibody diversity. Read the final part of Dr. Ewert's continuing response at ENV here. Dr. Ewert rec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Immunologist Explains Why the Immune System Isn't an Example of Darwinian Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Donald L. Ewert, a research immunologist/virologist who spent much of his career studying the molecular and cell biology of the immune system, as well as theories about its evolution. Dr. Ewert recently wrote a response at Evolution News & Views to BioLogos' Dr. Kathryn Ewert. Listen in as Dr. Ewert explains how the immune system works and why it's not an example of Darwinian evolution at work. Read part of Dr. Ewert's continuing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Programming of Life On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Donald E. Johnson about his new book, Programming of Life, which compares the workings of biology to a computer. Listen in as Dr. Johnson explains what inspired his latest book as an information scientist addressing the origin of life. Donald E. Johnson holds two Ph.D.s, one in Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota and another in Chemistry from Michigan State University. His website is ScienceIntegrit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Spontaneous Generationists On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews writer Robert Deyes on The New Spontaneous Generationists, who argue that "matter and energy somehow self-originated into complex forms without outside intelligence." While we may have moved beyond expecting rats to materialize from garbage heaps and maggots from decaying meat, materialists today are trying to simulate the origin of first life without intelligent agency -- and they're failing. Listen in to learn why, and read Deyes' a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Limits to Self-Organization On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews University of British Columbia at Vancouver philosophy faculty member Richard Johns on his recent paper in the journal Synthese titled “Self-organisation in dynamical systems: a limiting result.” In the paper, Dr. Johns argues that there are limits to the complexity of structures that can be produced by self-organization. Johns shows that Darwinian evolution is actually a type of a self-organizing process, and that it too is li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More of Nature's Dusty Evolutionary Gems On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin critiques some of the macroevolutionary “gems” from Nature’s Evolution-Evangelism packet, including whale evolution, feathered dinosaurs, and Tiktaalik. Listen in as he explains why predictions about Tiktaalik from leading evolutionary scientists such as Jerry Coyne and the National Academy of Sciences were overturned by the discovery of 397 million year old tetrapod tracks in early 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution Rarely the Basis of Research: Nature's "Evolutionary Gems" Just Narrative Gloss On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his series responding to Nature's evolution evangelism packet, taking a look at truly interesting research that has nothing to do with natural selection, common ancestry or Darwin's theory. For more on the "Evolutionary Gems," check out Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature's "Evolutionary Gems": Microevolution Meets... Microevolution On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his examination of Nature's "15 Evolutionary Gems" packet, going through the literature on small-scale, micro-evolutionary changes -- and how they fail to account for larger, macro-evolutionary changes. Listen in as Luskin discusses changes in birds' beaks and guppies' spots and what they really tell us about evolutionary theory. For more on the "evolutionary gems," Check out Evolution News & Views here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evaluating Nature's "Evolutionary Gems" and Finding Fishy Stories On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines Nature's "15 Evolutionary Gems" packet, which he describes as "an evangelism packet for those wishing to spread the good news about Darwinism." The packet purported to show "just what is the evidence for evolution by natural selection," but Luskin looks at these jewels and finds that they're just paste. Listen in to this first installment on Stickleback fish. For more on the "Evolutionary Gems," check out Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historian Explodes Stereotypes About Intelligent Design This episode of ID the Future has the second installment of Casey Luskin's interview of Discovery fellow Michael A. Flannery, author of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism. In this podcast, historian Flannery explains how Wallace held views different from Darwin, and thus poses a challenge to modern ID-critics: "You see, with Wallace they're faced with a real problem, because with Wallace they're faced in one individual ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politically Incorrect Scientist Alfred Russel Wallace On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Discovery fellow Michael A. Flannery, author of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism. Flannery explains how Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th century naturalist who co-discovered with Charles Darwin the principle of natural selection, not only dissented from key aspects of Darwinism but held certain views that can be classified as intelligent design (ID). Flannery's b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Atheist Discusses the Scientific Merits of Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, atheist philosopher Bradley Monton defends intelligent design as science, discussing methodological naturalism and the evidential force of ID with Casey Luskin. Listen in as Professor Monton shares how ID-critic Robert Pennock tried to intimidate him (and click here for more of that story). Bradley J. Monton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Intelligent Design "Creationism in a Cheap Lab Coat"? This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from a radio interview Casey Luskin did with Sound Rezn's Alex McFarland, where callers questioned Mr. Luskin on what scientific work was being done on intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irreducible Complexity Explained This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from a radio interview Casey Luskin did with Sound Rezn's Alex McFarland, explaining what irreducible complexity really entails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Supporters of Evolution Encourage Violations of the Establishment Clause On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the double standard advocated by the evolution lobby in public schools. "Either a viewpoint is religious and unconstitutional to advocate as correct or critique as false in public schools, or it's scientific and fair game for both advocacy and critique in public schools," says Luskin. What does this mean for evolution and intelligent design, and what does the case law say? Tune in to find out. This podcast is excerpted from a law r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part One This episode of ID the Future features part one of Casey Luskin's interview with atheist philosopher of physics Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Prof. Monton has a unique perspective of the debate over intelligent design as an atheist who is trying to elevate the debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zeal for Darwin's House Consumes Them On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines how, contrary to the stereotype, it's actually the supporters of evolution who encourage violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. This podcast is excerpted from a law review article published in Liberty University Law Review. The article, "Zeal for Darwin's House Consumes Them: How Supporters of Evolution Encourage Violations of the Establishment Clause," is available here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read On this episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards interviews Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Benjamin Wiker on his latest book, 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor. Listen in as they examine the role of materialism in politics, particularly in C. S. Lewis's prophetic book, The Abolition of Man, and Wiker explains how moral argument has been replaced by technological manipulation of human nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is "Ardi" All Washed Up? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the rise and fall of "Ardi," the once-purported "oldest human ancestor." What happens to a once "missing link" when the hype wears off? Listen in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Has Craig Venter Produced Artificial Life? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the overblown claims of Craig Venter, who announced earlier this year that he had produced artificial life, "the stuff of dreams and nightmares." Listen in for a cool-headed analysis of what Venter and his team really accomplished. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Shermer's Conflicted Message On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a look at Michael Shermer's conflicted message on science, intelligent design, and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cambrian Explosion Just Got More Explosive On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on the latest fossil finds showing evidence for Cephalopods appearing "in the geological blink of an eye." What does this mean for Darwinian evolution? Tune in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Dembski's Advice for Young Intelligent Design Scientists On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews mathematician and philosopher William Dembski on a break from teaching at Discovery Institute's Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design. Listen in as Dr. Dembski shares his advice for young scientists interested in ID and the hope he has for the future of intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Way to Teach Evolution: Treat It Like Science What's the best way to teach evolution? On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther interviews Casey Luskin about his recent article, "The Constitutionality and Pedagogical Benefits of Teaching Evolution Scientifically," published in the University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy. Luskin shares from his research of the problems facing American science education -- how students not inspired to pursue science and not taught how to think like scientists -- and the solution of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caroline Crocker Explains the Need for Scientific Integrity On this episode of ID the Future, Caroline Crocker is interviewed by Casey Luskin about the principles of academic freedom in education. Listen in as Dr. Crocker shares from her experience in the classroom at George Mason University and how all the problems she navigated there had a common thread: the lack of integrity in science. Caroline Crocker is the author of the newly released book, Free To Think: Why Scientific Integrity Matters and president of the American Institute for Technolog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Story of How Caroline Crocker Was Expelled from George Mason University Are scientists free to think and follow the evidence wherever it leads? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Caroline Crocker, president of the American Institute for Technology and Science Education and author of Free to Think: Why Scientific Integrity Matters. Dr. Crocker was famously expelled from her job at George Mason University. Listen in as she shares stories about her inspiring student and reveals details in her case for the first time. For more information ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evidence for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin responds to emails from students who want to know the scientific evidence for intelligent design. What do we really mean when we say that evolution is a scientific theory? Is there a positive case to be made for ID? Listen in and find out. For more information, check out The Positive Case for Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Video Podcast: Biological Information and the Origin of Life featuring Dr. Stephen Meyer On this special video episode of ID The Future, Dr. Stephen Meyer answers the question: What is the key thing that needs to be explained in origin of life research? According to Meyer it is all about biological information. Watch other videos about intelligent design featuring Dr. Meyer: Stephen Meyer on What Intelligent Design Is Is Intelligent Design Science? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Setting the Record Straight with Caroline Crocker On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Caroline Crocker, who shares about her experience during the filming of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" and how she first became interested in the debate over origins. What was it like for Dr. Crocker when she was expelled for questioning Darwinian evolution (and having Ben Stein write the Foreword for her new book, Free to Think)? Listen in and find out. For more information on Dr. Crocker's story, be sure to check out the new ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Design Argument Is Unrefuted: Stephen Meyer Responds to Critics In Signature in the Cell, Part 4 On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer responds to critics of intelligent design, such as Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Delusion. How do critics of ID miss the point, and what are the questions they should be asking about intelligent design? Listen in to find out, and check out Dr. Meyer's book, Signature in the Cell, where Dr. Meyer goes into more detail. Click here for Part 1 of this series. Click here for Part 2 of this series. Click here for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DNA Evidence for Design: Stephen C. Meyer and Signature in the Cell, Part 3 On this episode of ID the Future CSC Director Stephen C. Meyer explains the problem that information presents to origin of life researchers within a naturalistic paradigm. Information within the cell presents a daunting challenge to Darwin’s theory -- and provides significant evidence for a signature of a designing intelligence, as Meyer explains in his new book. Listen in and check out Dr. Meyer's book, Signature in the Cell (now available in paperback), which shares the depth of Dr. M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Delving Into Science at Cambridge: Stephen C. Meyer and Signature in the Cell, Part 2 On this episode of ID the Future philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer continues the story of how he became involved in intelligent design, sharing some of what he studied while at Cambridge University. What methods do scientists use to study biological origins? Is there a distinctive method of historical scientific inquiry? Meyer set off to investigate not only the history of scientific ideas about the origin of life, but also questions about the definition of science and about how s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of an Intelligent Design Theorist: Stephen C. Meyer and the Origin of Life This episode of ID the Future tells the story of how philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer first began his quest for the origin of life. How did one of the architects of the intelligent design movement move from the oilfields of Texas to the study halls of Cambridge to pursue the mystery of where biological information originated? Listen in and find out. His bestselling book, Signature in the Cell, now available in paperback, tells the rest of the story, the culmination of over 20 yea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advancing Understanding of Intelligent Design in the Spanish Speaking Community Worldwide On this episode of ID the Future Podcast an interview with Mario Lopez, founder of the Organización Internacional para el Avance Científico del Diseño Inteligente (OIACDI), a group dedicated to promoting awareness about intelligent design (ID) to the Spanish speaking community. Lopez explains that a large part of OIACDI’s goal is to network with Spanish-speaking scientists, assisting them in making contributions to ID research and thinking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matter and the Mind: Part Three With UK Darwin-Doubter James Le Fanu This episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of Casey Luskin's interview with James Le Fanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves, which discusses the problems for the materialist account of the human mind. How do we get from the electrochemical activity of the brain to the richness of the human mind? Listen in as Dr. LeFanu summarizes the five things that material science can’t tell us about the non-material mind. Listen to part one o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Intelligent Design Bad Theology? On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards about the bizarre claim made by certain atheists that intelligent design is bad theology. Read Dr. Richards' "Is Intelligent Design Bad Theology?" here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Uncensored In this episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards interviews Jonathan Witt about Witt’s new book, co-authored with William Dembski, titled Intelligent Design Uncensored. What is ID? Why is it controversial? This book breaks down the science of intelligent design into easy to understand terms and looks at other key cultural questions. Read a full review of the book here. In addition to discussing the book itself, Richards and Witt reveal autobiographical details of how they got involved ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rediscovering the Mystery of Ourselves: Part Two With Science Writer James LeFanu This episode of ID the Future features part two of Casey Luskin's interview with James LeFanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. According to Dr. LeFanu, one of the problems with Darwin’s theory and where it stands today is that it presupposes that the argument is closed, draining interest and fascination from the question of our origins. Dr. LeFanu discusses the problems with the Darwinian explanation for the evolution of the eye and how the developm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attorney Peter Lepiscopo Discusses Details of the California Science Open Records Lawsuit On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews attorney Peter Lepiscopo of Lepiscopo & Morrow who represented Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture in its successful lawsuit to obtain records that the California Science Center had previously sought to conceal regarding its cancellation of the screening of a pro-intelligent design film last year. The Science Center continues to "deny any and all liability relating to the claims," according to the settlement agreement ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website California Science Center to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Settle Open Records Lawsuit This episode of ID the Future features a special news alert for our listeners regarding the open records lawsuit filed by Discovery Institute against the California Science Center. The California Science Center has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute and release records that it previously sought to conceal regarding its cancellation of the screening of a pro-intelligent design film last year. Click here for the history of the California Science C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Doubting in the UK: Columnist, Doctor and Author James Le Fanu This episode of ID the Future features part one of Casey Luskin's interview with James Le Fanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. Dr. Le Fanu shares his perspective as someone who straddles two worlds, encountering science on a micro level in his practice as a medical doctor, and reflecting on the broader aspects of science and medicine as an author and columnist for the UK's Daily Telegraph. Dr. Le Fanu explains why he doubts the too-simplistic Darwinian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Has Craig Venter Produced Artificial Life? This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from an interview on the Albert Mohler program featuring CSC Director Stephen Meyer, author of the recent book, Signature in the Cell. Was there intelligent design in the recent experiments on artificial life? Listen in as Meyer discusses the science behind the latest headlines. For more information, read Jonathan Wells' article at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feathered Dinosaurs or Flightless Birds? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the latest fossil evidence of so-called feathered dinosaur fossil. While the mainstream media trumpets these finds as conclusive evidence in the case for evolution, Luskin explores whether the “feathered dinos” might actually be secondarily flightless birds. Have Darwinists interpreted the evidence to fit the data, or to fit their evolutionary paradigm? Listen in and find out. For more information on today’s topic, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Matheson's Spell-Checking Gotcha Game On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin responds to Calvin College biology professor Steve Matheson's critique of Signature in the Cell. What would you get if you crossed a snarky pro-evolution blog like Panda’s Thumb with a passionate defender of theistic evolution? You might get Steve Matheson's critique of Stephen Meyer’s book. Listen in as Luskin explains how Matheson's frequent personal attacks on Meyer, mixed with exposés of occasional typos and the possible discovery o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Signature of Controversy: New Book Responds to Stephen Meyer's Critics Critics of intelligent design often try to dismiss the theory as not worth addressing, as a question already settled, even as being too boring to countenance. Then they spend an amazing amount of energy trying to refute it. On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews David Klinghoffer, editor of the new digital book Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell. Listen in as Klinghoffer examines the responses of these various critics in this new volu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Meyer Has Even His Critics Agreeing: Intelligent Design Makes Sense This episode of ID the Future features the recent interaction between Stephen Meyer and one of his critics, Steve Matheson, who were recently at Biola University to discuss Dr. Meyer's book, Signature in the Cell. At one point in the exchange, Dr. Matheson, a theistic evolutionist, explains why he does not come to the same conclusions Dr. Meyer does. Click here for a short transcript of the exchange. To watch the full event, visit the Biola website here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Nelson on the Future of Intelligent Design What does the future look like for intelligent design? That’s the question on this episode of ID the Future, where we talk with philosopher of biology Paul Nelson about the hope he has for the scientific challenge to Darwinian evolution and shares his advice for future scientists. If you're interested in keeping up with the intelligent design community, check out BIO-Complexity, the new open-access peer-reviewed journal on intelligent design and origins. For more general information, v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fitness Costs and the Genetic Barriers to Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Scientific Dissent From Darwinism signer, biologist Mauricio Alcocer Ruthling, about the scientific problems with evolution. Dr. Alcocer Ruthling received his Ph.D. in plant science from the University of Idaho and is now Director of Graduate Studies at the Universidad Autónoma in Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Alcocer Ruthling has studied the importance of fitness costs to the use of herbicides and explains why fitness costs demonstrate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testing Evolution in the Lab With Biologic Institute's Ann Gauger On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Director of Research Jay Richards interviews Ann Gauger, senior research scientist at Biologic Institute, on a new article she and Dr. Ralph Seelke have in the peer-reviewed journal BIO-Complexity. Working with her co-authors, Dr. Gauger experimentally tested two-step adaptive paths that should have been within easy reach for bacterial populations. Listen in and learn what Dr. Gauger was surprised to find as she discusses the implications of these exp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Behe on Stereotypes and Acceptance of ID and the Big Bang On this episode of ID the Future we present a short clip of senior fellow Dr. Michael Behe at the Intelligent Design Under Fire conference where he talks about the acceptance of intelligent design based on misinformation and stereotypes as promoted by the media. He contrasts the current status of intelligent design with that of Big Bang theory in the beginning of the 20th century, when many scientists refused to accept Big Bang theory because they didn’t like the philosophical implication ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Research Shows Humans Closer to Neanderthals Than Chimpanzees On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports on interesting new genetic research which shows that our ancestral tree may not be quite what you think. This research, published in the science journal Nature over the past few months, shows a much greater genetic distance between humans and chimps than previously thought. Intriguingly, it also reveals a closer relationship between humans and Neanderthals. Listen in for the full story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case Against a Darwinian Origin of Protein Folds On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Research Director Jay Richards interviews protein scientist Doug Axe on his critical review paper published in the new journal, BIO-Complexity. Dr. Axe's new paper rigorously assesses the Darwinian mechanism to create new protein folds and is the featured article at BIO-Complexity, a new, open-access journal embracing the scientific controversy over origins and intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case Against a Darwinian Origin of Protein Folds On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Research Director Jay Richards interviews protein scientist Doug Axe on his critical review paper published in the new journal, BIO-Complexity. Dr. Axe's new paper rigorously assesses the Darwinian mechanism to create new protein folds and is the featured article at BIO-Complexity, a new, open-access journal embracing the scientific controversy over origins and intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Darwinism a Science Stopper? On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's Robert Crowther examines whether intelligent design is an impediment to scientific progress, and says the answer is an emphatic no. According to Crowther, Darwinists making this claim are mistaken -- listen in to find out why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID The Future: Deceptive ACLU Definitions of Intelligent Design On this episode of ID The Future, the CSC's Casey Luskin discusses the ACLU's hsitory of misrepresenting intelligent design, and promulgating deceptive definitions of the theory. For an accurate definition and explanation of what intelligent design is, visit Intelligentdesign.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID The Future: Coppedge Meets Kafka This episode of ID the Future features a special commentary from Discovery Institute’s David Klinghoffer about Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee David Coppedge’s discrimination lawsuit against his employers. Coppedge is suing his employers for discrimination after being demoted for talking about intelligent design on the job. To keep up with breaking news about intelligent design and academic freedom be sure to visit the Evolution News & Views blog everyday at evolutionnews.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sued for Discriminating Against Intelligent Design Proponent This episode of ID the Future features a special news alert as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has been sued for harassing and demoting David Coppedge, a supporter of intelligent design. Listen in and learn about the latest threat to academic freedom on evolution -- and what you can do to help. For continuing updates as the story develops, stay tuned to Evolution News & Views. Click here for background information on David Coppedge Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Speech Under Attack at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory What happens when an employer tries to punish an employee for their pro-intelligent design views? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews William J. Becker, Jr., a first amendment attorney in California. Mr. Becker is the attorney for David Coppedge who filed suit this week against NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The lawsuit claims that supervisors at JPL illegally harassed and demoted Mr. Coppedge, a high-level computer system administrator and Team Lead on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Charles Garner on Chirality and Origin of Life Research On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Baylor University chemistry professor Dr. Charles Garner, who explains his research in chemistry and its bearing on origin of life research. Listen in as Dr. Garner explains the chirality of molecules and the importance of homochirality to origin of life research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When It's Wise to Question the Scientific Consensus On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC Research Director Jay Richards about when it's wise to doubt a "scientific consensus." With growing skepticism on issues where the public is told that scientific consensus exists — most notably Darwinian evolution, but also climate change. How can we tell if the consensus is based on social pressure or on scientific evidence? Listen in, and be sure to read Dr. Richards' article at The American here. For more articles from Dr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Dover Was Wrong: A Detailed Look at the Errors of the Infamous Kitzmiller Decision On this episode of ID the Future we’re featuring an excerpt from a talk given by Casey Luskin at the 2010 Academic Freedom Day celebration at the University of Arkansas. In this final clip, Luskin explains the problems of the infamous Kitzmiller v. Dover ruling and the advocacy of the judge’s decision, which was riddled with errors and mistakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why We Need Academic Freedom for Intelligent Design Proponents Are there really threats to academic freedom in America? On this episode of ID the Future we're featuring an excerpt from a talk given by Casey Luskin at the 2010 Academic Freedom Day celebration at the University of Arkansas. In this third clip, Luskin explains that the persecution stories in the movie Expelled were just the tip of the iceberg. He gives additional examples of pro-ID students, scientists, and faculty who have experienced persecution due to their support for intelligent d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Predictions for the Fossil Record and "Junk" DNA What does the fossil record tell us about intelligent design? And what does intelligent design predict when it comes to "junk"-DNA? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin explores more of intelligent design’s testable predictions in a recent talk he gave at the University of Arkansas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Broader Audience: Intelligent Design and Ciencia Alternativa On today’s episode of ID the Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews Mario Lopez, co-founder of Ciencia Alternativa. Ciencia Alternativa is a website devoted to expanding intelligent design’s reach within the Spanish-speaking community. Lopez explains how he first became involved in ID, and describes the history and operations of Ciencia Alternativa. He also talks about some of his associates at Ciencia Alternativa and the harsh opposition they face from parts of the scientific communit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Does Darwin's Argument From the Origin of Species Fit Into the Classroom? On this episode of ID The Future biologist and CSC senior fellow Paul Nelson argues that philosophical issues related to design in nature are bound to come up in the classroom, given the history and structure of evolutionary theory. In science classrooms today, the allowed scientific playing field is multidimensional. There is the empirical axis, or observational information, and the analytical axis, truth of mathematics and logic. Where then does Darwin's argument from the Origin of Speci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's David Klinghoffer reviews the new book by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy, explaining why the Darwin debate matters so urgently and taking an important look at the animal rights movement. Listeners in the Seattle area are invited join us this week at Discovery Institute's office, where Wesley Smith will be visiting to talk about his news book on Thursday, March 18. Click here for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Positive Case for Intelligent Design and Why It’s Being Expelled from Academia On this episode of ID the Future we’re featuring an excerpt from an Academic Freedom Day talk given by Casey Luskin at the University of Arkansas. The talk is titled “The Positive Case for Intelligent Design and Why It’s Being Expelled from Academia,” and in this first of two parts, Luskin gives two positive, testable predictions of ID that are confirmed by the empirical data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Brain Just an Illusion? On this episode of ID The Future, Anika Smith interviews science writer Denyse O'Leary about her book, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul. In the book O'Leary and her co-author Mario Beaurogard, neuroscientist and Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, explore the question of whether or not the mind is an illusion as materialists believe. The Spiritual Brain looks at whether religious experiences come from God or are merely the random firin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Robert J. Marks, who recently published two papers with William Dembski and another paper published with Dr. Dembski and graduate student Winston Ewert. This is Dr. Marks' first IDTF interview since Baylor University shut down his pro-ID website, now available at a third-party website, EvoInfo.org. Listen in as Dr. Marks discusses his research on probability and the problems it poses for Darwin's theory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graduate Student Challenges Avida in Scientific Paper On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interview Winston Ewert, a graduate student in computer science at Baylor University who recently co-authored a paper titled, "Evolutionary Synthesis of Nand Logic: Dissecting a Digital Organism," in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Ewert shares how reading Richard Dawkins led him to his current research in evolutionary computation and his criticisms of the Avida Simulation. Listen in as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Antithesis On this episode of ID the Future, CSC’s Logan Gage discusses the new atheists’ approach to religion as a byproduct of evolution. Citing new research which shows that some religious beliefs and ways of processing are innate and are thus not accumulated by experience, Gage explains why the new atheists’ views are unfairly biased against religious beliefs and why they are ultimately self-defeating. For more information on this topic, visit FaithandEvolution.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery Institute Announces the 2010 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design This episode of ID the Future features a special announcement from Discovery Institute announcing the 2010 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design. Discovery Institute has two intensive summer seminars on intelligent design, science, and culture from July 9-17, 2010 in Seattle. The first seminar is for students in the natural sciences and philosophy of science; the second seminar is for students in the social sciences and humanities (including politics, law, journalism, and theology). The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mathematician Dissents From Darwin On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Granville Sewell about how he came to be a Darwin skeptic and why a mathematician's view of neo-Darwinian evolution matters. Listen in as Dr. Sewell shares his views and gives advice to students who doubt Darwinism. Dr. Sewell's new book, In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design, is published by Discovery Institute Press. Granville Sewell is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He completed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Are Students Skeptical of Darwinism? Skepticism of Darwinian evolution remains high, with well over half of Americans doubtful that Darwin’s theory adequately explains the intricate complexity of the natural world that they see around them. Most Darwinists claim that such skepticism is motivated simply by personal religious beliefs. On this episode of ID the Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin shows that, for many students today, the skepticism is based on science. For more go to www.dissentfromdarwin.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mathematician Granville Sewell on Common Design On this episode of ID the Future, pro-ID mathematician Granville Sewell explains his views on common design and how the second law of thermodynamics challenges materialism. Listen in as Sewell and Luskin explore an expanse of important topics, such as the origin of human consciousness, scientism, education policy, and the problem of evil. Dr. Sewell's new book, In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design, is published by Discovery Institute Press. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Granville Sewell on Cosmic Origins and Mathematics' Connection to the Sciences On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews mathematician Granville Sewell on the multiverse hypothesis, the fine tuning of the laws of physics, and the connections between mathematics and the sciences. Dr. Sewell's new book, In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design, is published by Discovery Institute Press. Granville Sewell is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at Purdue University and has worked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Academic Freedom Day Update on California Science Center Lawsuits On this special Academic Freedom Day edition of ID the Future, Casey Luskin provides an update on the ongoing lawsuits filed against California Science Center for First Amendment violations and the illegal cover-up to hide the truth about their censorship of the pro-ID film, Darwin's Dilemma. Listen in to hear the latest, along with the origins of Academic Freedom Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Success Stories From 2009 This episode of ID the Future continues our series of podcasts for Academic Freedom Week, where we take a look back over the academic freedom stories in the media last year and look ahead to the current struggles for academic freedom in the debate over evolution and intelligent design. Today's interview features ARN Executive Director Dennis Wagner, who discusses with Casey Luskin the recent successes in the battle to protect academic freedom in evolution education, especially in the state ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom and the Media: A Look at the Top Media Stories of 2009 With Dennis Wagner This episode of ID the Future kicks off a series of podcasts for Academic Freedom Week, where we take a look back over the academic freedom stories in the media last year and look ahead to the current struggles for academic freedom in the debate over evolution and intelligent design. Leading off is today's interview of ARN Executive Director Dennis Wagner, who discusses with Casey Luskin the expelling of Ben Stein from the University of Vermont, the censorship of Michael Behe's Blogginghea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Matter of Dismal Wet Plops": Stephen Meyer Interviews David Berlinski on Darwinism This episode of ID the Future features a clip from the recent "Signature in the Cell" event in Tampa, FL, featuring Stephen Meyer, Michael Medved, David Berlinski and Tom Woodward. Listen in as Dr. Meyer interviews Dr. Berlinski about the questions that led him to criticize Darwinism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deepening Darwin's Dilemma With Jonathan Wells This episode of ID the Future features biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells, who explains why Darwin saw the Cambrian explosion as a serious argument against his theory. Darwin countered it by supposing that fossils of the ancestors of Cambrian animals once existed, but were destroyed. Listen in and learn how the discovery of microscopic and soft-bodied Precambrian fossils makes Darwin’s excuse sound hollow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alfred Russel Wallace: Champion of Natural Selection or Intelligent Design? On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Robert Crowther takes a look at Alfred Russel Wallace, who, along with Darwin, co-presented the theory of natural selection in letters to the Linnean Society of London over 150 years ago. Contrary to Darwin, Wallace actually believed that it was possible to detect design in nature. What would modern Darwin defenders make of Wallace today? Listen in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Cell Like a Computer? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Donald Johnson, author of Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability: A Call to Scientific Integrity. As both a chemist and a computer scientist, Dr. Johnson explains how the cell uses programming code, much like a computer, and he elucidates how the information is processed and converted from proteins into DNA. Listen in as Dr. Johnson shares the science of how the cell is like a computer. Donald E. Johnson holds PhDs in C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moving the Goalpost: How Darwin's Theory Survives It's easy to win the game when you can move the goalpost. On this episode of ID the Future, biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells explains how Darwinism, unlike football, has only one rule: survival of the fittest. The fittest are those who survive, and Darwinists are determined to survive at all costs—even if it means moving the goalpost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meyer and Dembski Breakthroughs Top ID Science Stories for 2009 On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner, executive director of the Access Research Network discussing ARN’s top 5 Darwin and Design science stories for 2009. Listen in to learn how the work of Stephen Meyer and William Dembski topped the list of ID science accomplishments for 2009. For more on ARN's Top Ten, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimetics, Peppered Moths, and Ardi: The Top Ten Darwin and Design Science Stories for 2009 You could call it the year of evolution hype gone bust. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner, executive director of the Access Research Network about their Top Ten Darwin and Design Science News Stories for 2009. Listen in to this second installment as they discuss five stories for 2009, including the crumbling icons of evolution, peppered moths, the overhyped fossil, "Ardi," and the positive case for design in the Cambrian explosion. For more on ARN's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Critics Fail in Attempts to Attack Irreducible Complexity: The Top Darwin and Design Science Stories for 2009 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner, executive director of the Access Research Network about their Top Ten Darwin and Design Science News Stories for 2009. Listen in to this first installment as they discuss the five honorable mention stories for 2009, including such topics as the stunning complexity of the cell and failed attempts by critics to attack irreducible complexity in 2009. For more on ARN's Top Ten, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rodney LeVake: Expelled Science Teacher, Part 1 On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews Rodney LeVake, the plaintiff in the Academic Freedom court case LeVake vs. Independent School District #656. LeVake, a former high school biology teacher, informally expressed doubts about evolution to a colleague who then reported him to the principal. LeVake ended up losing his biology position, not because he taught creationism or intelligent design, but merely because he expressed reservations about evolution to a colleag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimetics and the Positive Implications for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin looks at Biomimetics, a new movement in science that adapts designs from nature to solve problems in engineering, materials science, medicine, and other fields. While engineers and other researchers turn to nature for guidance and inspiration in producing human technology, the positive implications for intelligent design grow. Should scientists consider the possibility that biological systems, which outperform human technology, were intelligent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Peer-Reviewed Paper Demolishes Fallacious Objection to ID On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a new peer-reviewed paper that demolishes a very common and very fallacious objection to intelligent design. That objection? “Aren’t there vast eons of time for evolution?” For more information on this and other peer-reviewed papers relating to intelligent design, visit Evolution News & Views at www.evolutionnews.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Update: California Science Center Engaged in Illegal Cover-Up This episode of ID the Future features an academic freedom update on the California Science Center's cancellation last October of a screening of a pro-ID film, Darwin's Dilemma, by a private group. How does a government agency try to evade its obligations to the First Amendment? By suppressing information. Listen in to learn about the evidence that the Discovery Institute has uncovered in its lawsuit against the Science Center. For more information and continuing coverage of this story, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 200 Years After Darwin -- What Didn't Darwin Know? This special video episode of ID the Future celebrates Darwin Day with a look back at the man and his theory by three scientists and scholars who join in the scientific dissent from evolution. Biologist Jonathan Wells, author and M.D. Geoffrey Simmons, and molecular biologist Douglas Axe shed light on the problems with Darwin's theory as they share what led each of them to their skepticism. Jonathan Wells first became skeptical of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, but it was in his ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Consensus Doesn't Count Darwinists often point out that Darwin’s theory is supported by a majority of scientists and so only the evidence that supports the theory should be presented to students. On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s John West explains that when it comes to setting public policy, dissenting views on science can be critically important and should be encouraged. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientocracy Rules Welcome to the Scientocracy, where unless you fully accede to the consensus view, then your opinion not only doesn’t matter, it might even be dangerous. On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin shows how a recent move to redefine scientific literacy from an understanding of science into wholesale capitulation to the “consensus” damages true scientific literacy — including the right to debate and dissent. Luskin's article appeared in Salvo Magazine's Winter 2009 issue. For m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Theory: George Gilder at Bar-Ilan University On this episode of ID the Future, we're highlighting Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder’s address to Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Gilder, author of The Israel Test, spoke about the development of technology and its relationship to science. In this excerpt from his speech, Gilder discusses information theory and its implications for biology, Darwinism, and intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Design of Life: What the Evidence of Biological Systems Reveals On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems with author Dr. William Dembski. Is design in nature just an "illusion," as Richard Dawkins proclaims? Dembski and co-author Dr. Jonathan Wells show the answer is "no." Biologists have and continue to use the assumption of design successfully, precisely because design in biology is not an illusion but real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Has the U.S. Supreme Court Sanctioned Critique of Darwinism? In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses with Kevin Wirth the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Edwards v. Aguillard case and how the Court sanctioned the legality scientific critiques of evolution in public schools. They also discuss some of the dangerous aspects of the Selman v. Cobb County ruling and how it threatens the political rights of millions of Americans. Tune in as Luskin and Wirth critique and discuss these and other court rulings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legal Advice for Teachers With Evolution in the Classroom This episode of ID the Future features Casey Luskin interviewed by Kevin Wirth on the key legal cases involving teachers teaching evolution. What does the case law say about teachers' rights and free speech? Luskin, a lawyer with a science background, published a survey of case law in Hamline University Law Review to help the public understand what the courts have ruled on the topic of teaching origins. This survey of twenty-one cases investigates the question many teacher, parents, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinism: The Politically Correct Science What makes Darwinism politically correct? This episode of ID the Future features Robert Crowther interviewing CSC senior fellow Dr. Jonathan Wells on his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Dr. Wells explains the peer-pressure involved with Darwin's theory and shares from his studies in 19th century Darwinian controversies and evolutionary development at Yale and UC Berkeley, respectively. Visit the book's website at www.darwinismandid.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Legal When Teaching Evolution? This episode of ID the Future features Casey Luskin interviewed by Kevin Wirth on the key legal cases concerning the teaching of origins. Luskin, a lawyer with a science background, published a survey of case law in Hamline University Law Review to help the public understand what the courts have ruled on the topic of teaching origins. This survey of twenty-one cases investigates the question many teacher, parents, and students ask: what is legal when it comes to teaching evolution? Can p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Turns 25 On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Thomas Woodward, who makes the argument that 2009 should be celebrated as the 25th anniversary for intelligent design. Listen in as Dr. Woodward recounts the history of intelligent design and how the movement has changed over the last quarter-century. Thomas Woodward is the author of Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design and Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery Institute Sues California Science Center for Suppressing Public Documents Showing Viewpoint Discrimination Against Intelligent Design This episode of ID the Future features a special news alert by Casey Luskin. Discovery Institute has filed a lawsuit against the California Science Center for unlawfully refusing to disclose public documents requested by Discovery Institute under the California Public Records Act. For more information and continuing updates as the story develops, tune into Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Evidence for Intelligent Design in Nature Where do we find evidence of design in Nature? This episode of ID the Future features Casey Luskin at a recent lecture, explaining how information in DNA, molecular machines, and cosmic fine tuning all point to intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doubting Darwin on His Anniversary As On the Origin of Species hits its 150th anniversary tomorrow and we witness the height of focused media attention on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, why do so many remain unconvinced? On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Associate Director John West explains the good reasons people have for rejecting Darwinian evolution, based on both the scientific evidence and the way it purports to overthrow long-cherished ideas about human dignity, morality, and God. Why hasn't Darwin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Debate Over Darwin: Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer What can we learn when we balance the facts and arguments on both sides of each question? This episode of ID the Future features a debate between Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell, and Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, on Lee Strobel's "Faith Under Fire" program, arguing for and against intelligent design. Of course, both of these men have plenty more to say. In less than two weeks, they will meet again at the prestigious Saban Theater in Beverly Hills ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Positive Case for Intelligent Design What exactly is the positive argument for intelligent design? This episode of ID the Future is taken from a recent lecture on intelligent design given by Casey Luskin. Because of the way the media misrepresents the issue, even those who may be predisposed to support ID don't understand what the theory actually is. Listen in to discover what the scientific theory of intelligent design really entails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Mooney's War on Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Rob Crowther interviews Casey Luskin about his in-depth response to Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, correcting fourteen major factual and logical errors in Mooney's chapter on intelligent design. How can Chris Mooney be so wrong on this issue? Listen in and find out. Read the original response to Mooney here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How David Berlinski Became a Scientific Critic This episode of ID the Future features David Berslinski on his new book, The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays and the identity he found as a scientific critic and his notorious Commentary essay attacking Darwinian theory. Listen in as Berlinski discusses origin of life research, the essay he considers his best, and the legacy of On the Origins of Species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Religious Foundations of Darwinism and the Failure of Naturalism On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his interview with Dr. Cornelius Hunter, examining the religious foundations of evolution and the circuitous reasoning behind Naturalism. Listen in as Dr. Hunter explains why Darwinists are wrong when they claim that their theory is testable and falsifiable, and learn about his favorite failed prediction of evolution. For more failed predictions, visit Dr. Hunter's website at DarwinsPredictions.com, and check out his blog at Darwin' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligently Designed Nanotechnology As Casey Luskin reveals in this episode of ID the Future, eminent biologists have said that they must continually remind themselves that what they see in biology evolved, and was not designed. But now engineers are turning to biology to replace human technology because biological pathways provide superior solutions to biomedical-technological needs. Is this trend more consistent with an evolved biosphere, or an intelligent designed one? Listen to this podcast and decide for yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin's Predictions With Cornelius Hunter On this episode of ID the Future, Cornelius Hunter is interviewed by Casey Luskin about his website, DarwinsPredictions.com, and his blog, Darwin's God. Listen in as Dr. Hunter examines the evidence of evolution's failure as a theory and answers the objections evolutionists raise to his arguments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In a Charitable Mood: David Berlinski Reviews Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth How is Richard Dawkins like a squid? Find out on this episode of ID the Future as David Berlinski reviews The Greatest Show on Earth in an interview by Casey Luskin. What does this book recapture for Dawkins, and where does it fail? And how does Darwin's On the Origins of Species fit into all this? Tune in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Frankenstein: Giovanni Aldini On this special Halloween edition of ID the Future, John West shares the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In his book, Darwin Day in America, West examines the experiments that Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini conducted on human corpses. His gruesome experiments provided the inspiration for Frankenstein and foreshadowed the rise of a virulent strain of materialism that attempted to use science to reduce human beings to mere matter in motion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinists Launch Cyber Attack on Intelligent Design Conference Website Censorship has many forms. In this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith talks to Shepherd Project Executive Director Craig Smith about how his organization recently became target the of malicious computer hackers in a coordinated attempt to suppress information about an upcoming conference on Darwin and intelligent design in Colorado. Why would Darwinists launch such a brazen attack? Why does intelligent design incite such hostility that its opponents won't countenance even allowing a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Berlinski and The Deniable Darwin On today’s episode of ID the Future, mathematician and consummate skeptic David Berlinski shares with Discovery President Bruce Chapman about his award-winning essays from Commentary Magazine and the answers that are unacceptable to the scientific community. The essays first published in Commentary Magazine are now available in The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays, a new book published by Discovery Institute Press, where nothing is exempt from Berlinski’s famous skepticism, excluding nei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of Intelligent Design: Countering Darwinist Urban Legends On this episode of ID the Future, CSC’s Robert Crowther takes aim at Darwinist misinformation about the origins of intelligent design. Crowther makes mincemeat of the assertion that the term “intelligent design” was fabricated following the 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard Supreme Court case, showing instead that the term is over 100 years old. He also targets the old Darwinist canard that terms like micro- and macro-evolution were made up by Darwin’s critics. For more information on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Skeptic's Take on the New Atheists: An Interview With The Devil's Delusion Author David Berlinski On this episode of ID the Future, mathematician and skeptic David Berlinski explains in a conversation with Discovery President Bruce Chapman where he draws the line with the new atheists. There is a clear difference between a thoughtful secular Jew such as Dr. Berlinski and the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins. One is a truly cautious skeptic — the other maintains his dogmatic belief in Science, with a capital S. Nowhere is this illustrated more clearly than in Dr. Berlinski’s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Information Theory Is Taking Intelligent Design Mainstream: An Interview With Dr. William Dembski This episode of ID the Future continues Casey Luskin's interviews Dr. William Dembski on his new peer-reviewed paper, "Conservation of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success," published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics A, Systems & Humans. How does this peer-reviewed scientific paper support intelligent design? Listen in as Dr. Dembski shares how his research tests evolutionary theory using information theory and the follow-up paper that he and fellow rese ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Michael Egnor's Brain Hypothesis On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook Michael Egnor. Dr. Egnor discusses his current research into cerebral blood flow and the buffering of the brain from the force of blood pumped by the heart. Dr. Egnor's approach to this problem is that of an engineer, using the design inference to understand how the brain protects itself from the pulsatility of the arterial blood flow of the heart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information and Clear Accounting in Evolution: An Interview With Dr. William Dembski On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Dr. William Dembski on his new peer-reviewed paper, "Conservation of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success," published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics A, Systems & Humans. Listen in as Dr. Dembski shares how his research provides accounting practices for checking out where the information in evolutionary processes is being inserted and expressed, thus holding evolutionists accountable to the fact t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Action Alert This episode of ID the Future features breaking news that could affect your freedom to present views that dissent from Darwin in a public place. CSC Associate Director John West explains in an interview with Anika Smith. Free speech on evolution is under attack in California, where censors have expelled the intelligent design documentary, Darwin's Dilemma, from the state science center. Make your voice heard and stand up for free speech by e-mailing the California State Science Center at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abuses of Power in Science: An Interview With Darwin Skeptic David Berlinski On this episode of ID the Future, David Berlinski discusses the abuses of power that can – and often do – occur in the scientific community, and how our tax dollars fund them. Dr Berlinski is author of The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions is now available in paperback from Basic Books. Visit the website at www.devilsdelusion.com for more information and continuing updates from Dr. Berlinski. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Doubter David Berlinski Explains the Problem of Dissent in Science On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman asks David Berlinski how to address the problem of dissent in science. The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions is now available in paperback from Basic Books. Visit the website at www.devilsdelusion.com for more information and continuing updates from Dr. Berlinski. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Skeptic David Berlinski on Peer-Review and the Scientific Bureaucracy On this episode of ID the Future, David Berlinski explains how peer-review REALLY works in a conversation with Discovery President Bruce Chapman. In addition, David Berlinski has comments on a recent investigation into the NSF at Evolution News & Views today. David Berlinski's book, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions is now available in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Science is an established church" says skeptic David Berlinski Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman talks with David Berlinski about the threatened establishment in science and the history of persecuted minority views, and Berlinski's own view that: “Science is an established church.” David Berlinski's book, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions is now available in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with Devil's Delusion author David Berlinski David Berlinski has been accused of being many things, but speechless is not one of them. In this short interview clip he addresses a range of scientific and philosophical issues that he expanded on his book The Devil's Delusion, which has just this week been released in paperback from Basic Books. For more be sure to follow the current Q&A with David at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Atheist Considers the Scientific Arguments for Intelligent Design On this episode ofID the FutureCasey Luskin interviews atheist philosopher Bradley Monton on the scientific arguments for intelligent design and whether or not he finds them compelling, from design in biology to the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, and what he thinks about evolution and intelligent design in public education.Bradley J. Monton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is author of the new book,Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Int ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientific Journals Are Haunted by Intelligent Design: Michael Behe on Irreducible Complexity and PNAS On this episode of ID the Future Anika Smith interviews Lehigh University professor Michael Behe about irreducible complexity and the way his critics have tried to address his idea... without actually having to address it. What happens when Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publishes a paper substituting reducible systems to test irreducible complexity? And what does it mean when prestigious journals try to refute your idea... and keep claiming to refute it without allowing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Atheist Discusses the Scientific Merits of Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, atheist philosopher Bradley Monton defends intelligent design as science, discussing methodological naturalism and the evidential force of ID with Casey Luskin. Listen in as Professor Monton shares how ID-critic Robert Pennock tried to intimidate him (and click here for more of that story). Bradley J. Monton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is author of the new book, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Inte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery Jeopardizes Darwinist Argument Against Cambrian Explosion On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how trails of microorganisms knock down a favorite Darwinist argument against the Cambrian explosion. Listen in as Luskin explains why Darwinists remain stuck — whether they like it or not — with a very explosive Cambrian explosion that isn't the mere artifact of an imperfect fossil record. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes With Darwin's Dilemma: An Interview With Producer Lad Allen On this episode of ID the Future Anika Smith interviews Illustra Media producer Lad Allen on the new film out next week, Darwin's Dilemma. As the third film in the intelligent design trilogy from Illustra Media, Darwin's Dilemma represents a capstone for Allen, who traversed the globe to present the story of Darwin's journey to his theory of evolution and the Cambrian Explosion, the nagging problem for Darwin in the fossil record that has become a crisis for evolution today. Listen in as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to School With Real Science for Kids This episode of ID the Future features part two of an interview with Dr. Rebecca Keller, who discusses the nature of science and interpretation and how it applies to science education. Her textbooks focus on the practice of science, and are available at Gravitas Publications. Dr. Keller holds a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of New Mexico, spent years doing biochemical research on molecular machines, and is an outspoken proponent of teaching students about both the scie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Bradley J. Monton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, about his new book Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009). As the book’s title suggests, Monton is an atheist who feels that some intelligent design (ID) arguments hold merit and are worth taking seriously. Listen to this podcast as Monton explains how ID-critics commonly dismiss the theory thro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitler's Ethic and the Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress in Nazi Policy On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews historian Richard Weikart on his new book, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, and how Darwinism influenced and inspired much of Nazi ideology. Weikart’s provocative book, out tomorrow, argues that Hitler's immorality was not the result of ignoring or rejecting ethics, but rather came from embracing a coherent -- albeit pernicious -- ethic of improving the human race through "evolutionary progress." Directly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebutting Methodological Materialism: Interview With Angus Menuge, Part Two On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Angus Menuge on his latest research, including his arguments rebutting methodological materialism, a defense of downward mental causation, and a non-materialist theory of information. Listen in as he shares from his experience debating PZ Myers on how neuroscience actually points to the existence of non-material causes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agents Under Fire: Part One With Angus Menuge On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Angus Menuge, professor of philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and author of Agents Under Fire, Materialism and the Rationality of Science. Dr. Menuge shares how he got involved in the debate over intelligent design and what made him a skeptic of Darwinian evolution. Listen in as Dr. Menuge explains what is necessary for the Darwinian account of evolutionary complex systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution's Glass Ceiling On this episode of ID the Future, acclaimed author and Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer takes a look at the academic freedom — or lack thereof — for scientists who support intelligent design, scientists who are forced to don disguises and go underground in order to protect their careers. This podcast is based on Mr. Klinghoffer's commentary in Townhall Magazine, "Evolution's Glass Ceiling." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Challenging Ideas Promotes Good Science Education In this ID the Future Podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Rebecca Keller, a signer of A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, about her views on biological evolution. Dr. Keller holds a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of New Mexico, spent many hears doing biochemical research on molecular machines, and is an outspoken proponent of teaching students about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian evolution. She is also the CEO of Gravitas Publications, which ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmological Fine Tuning and the Multiverse Model On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Scott Chambers, who discusses his current research and his interest in the debate over evolution, which began in college and continues through this day. Dr. Chambers explains how the evidence for intelligent design from the fine-tuning of the universe and the fundamental constants of physics "smacks of design," and he addresses the multiverse hypothesis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is ID Creationism? William Dembski Answers Top Three Objections to ID On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues an interview with leading intelligent design theorist and CSC Senior Fellow William Dembski. Together, Dembski and Luskin address the three most common objections to design: that it is improper to infer design based on unlikely probabilities, that dysfunctional or suboptimal biological structures disprove that they were designed, and that intelligent design is nothing more than repacked creationism. Touching on such topics like patte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Challenge to Darwin, the Preamble to Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews historian Michael Flannery for the final installment of this series on Alfred Russell Wallace and Flannery's new book, Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism. What was Wallace's theory of intelligent evolution, which Flannery describes as a preamble to intelligent design? It should strike both ID proponents and critics alike as significant that first intelligent des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Double Ph.D. Scientist Calls for Scientific Integrity On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews scientist Donald Johnson about his new book, Probability’s Nature and Nature's Probability. Dr. Johnson calls for scientific integrity in the debate over evolution and intelligent design and discusses how information is transmitted in living systems. Donald E. Johnson holds Ph.D.s in Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota and in Chemistry from Michigan State University. He can be reached at his website, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micro or Macro? Microbiologist Ralph Seelke on Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther interviews Dr. Ralph Seelke, who explains the differences between Micro- and Macro-evolution and shares about his current evolution research. Ralph Seelke received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in 1981, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mayo Clinic until 1983, and has been an Associate Professor or Professor in the Department of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Universit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Evolution and Darwin's Rival On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with historian Michael Flannery for the third and final installment of this series on Alfred Russell Wallace and Flannery's new book, Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism. Wallace lived a century ago — how is it fair to call Wallace a seminal figure for intelligent design? Listen in as Michael Flannery explains that while we cannot judge Wallace by the standards of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doubting Darwin With Double Ph.D Scientist Donald Johnson On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Donald E. Johnson about Johnson’s journey from being an evolutionist to becoming a Darwin-skeptic and proponent of intelligent design. What stands in the way of many scientists accepting ID? Johnson explains the difficulty he faced as the logic of the design argument compelled him to take a more critical look at Darwin's theory. Donald E. Johnson, who holds two Ph.D.s, one Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences from the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francis Collins: Consistent or not? CSC’s Logan Gage offers an insightful review of new theistic evolutionist Francis Collins’ seminal book, The Language of God, and considers whether or not Collins is consistent in his thinking. Click here for more about Collins' views on evolution and intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 338 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historian Explodes Stereotypes About Intelligent Design This episode of ID the Future has the second installment of Casey Luskin’s interview of Michael A. Flannery, author of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism (2009). In this podcast, historian Flannery explains how Wallace held views different from Darwin, and thus poses a challenge to modern ID-critics: “You see, with Wallace they’re faced with a real problem, because with Wallace they’re faced in one individual s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 336 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dissenter in Darwin's Shadow On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Michael A. Flannery, author of Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism (2009). Flannery’s book is published by Erasmus Press, and it explains how Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th century naturalist who co-discovered with Charles Darwin the principle of natural selection, not only dissented from key aspects of Darwinism but held certain views that can be classified as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 334 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DNA, Signature in the Cell, and Francis Collins at the NIH This episode of ID the Future features an interview with Stephen Meyer on the Sandy Rios show, where he answered questions about DNA, his new book, Signature in the Cell, and the recent appointment of Francis Collins to the NIH. For continuing updates on other interviews and appearances featuring Dr. Meyer, visit SignatureInTheCell.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen C. Meyer Tackles the Question That Stumped Darwin This episode of ID the Future feature CSC director Stephen C. Meyer on the Rick Hamada program, where he addresses the critical question that stumped Darwin: where did the first life come from? Listen in for Steve's answer, and be sure to check out SignatureIntheCell.com for the latest news and media appearances with Dr. Meyer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art and Intelligent Design: The Connections Between Nature and Human Design On this episode of ID The Future, medical illustrator and artist Jody Sjogren, tells her scientific journey from being a passive “go-with-the-flow” Darwinist to becoming a Darwin-skeptic as she learned about the workings of biology and human-designed machines and gained experience with the creative process. Sjogren graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology, and then from the Medical College of Georgia with a Master of Science degree in Medica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Origin of Life Chemistry Shows Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Baylor University chemist Dr. Charles Garner on new findings in origin of life research and the plausibility of the chemical origin of life scenario. Listen in as Dr. Garner shows the speculation and imagination materialists employ to explain the origin of life. For more information, read some of Dr. Garner's comments here at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin's Tree of Life Splinters On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a keen-eyed look at Darwin's tree of life and finds that common descent, far from being confirmed by the data, is actually contradicted by it, as New Scientist pointed out in a recent cover story, "Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life." Listen in to learn how the data is challenging Darwinist assumptions, and check out "A Primer on the Tree of Life" for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on Intelligent Design Critics of intelligent design sometimes claim they are defending the principles of American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson in trying to ban discussions of intelligent design. In the words of one writer, “Thomas Jefferson makes it quite clear that there was not a consensus of support among the authors of the Constitution... to support theological doctrines such as intelligent design.” But would Thomas Jefferson himself agree? In this special July 4th edition of ID the Future, Discovery ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Design Argument Is Unrefuted: Stephen Meyer Responds to Critics With Signature in the Cell On this episode of ID the Future philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer responds to critics of intelligent design, such as Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Delusion. How do critics of ID miss the point, and what are the questions they should be asking about intelligent design? Listen in to find out, and check out Dr. Meyer's new book, Signature in the Cell, where Dr. Meyer goes into more detail. Click here for Part 1 of this series. Click here for Part 2 of this series. Click here ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DNA Evidence for Design: Stephen C. Meyer and Signature in the Cell, Part 3 On this episode of ID the Future CSC Director Stephen C. Meyer explains the problem that information presents to origin of life researchers within a naturalistic paradigm. Information within the cell presents a daunting challenge to Darwin’s theory -- and provides significant evidence for a signature of a designing intelligence, as Meyer explains in his new book. Listen in and check out Dr. Meyer's new book, Signature in the Cell, which shares the depth of Dr. Meyer's research into the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Delving Into Science at Cambridge: Stephen C. Meyer and Signature in the Cell, Part 2 On this episode of ID the Future philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer continues the story of how he became involved in intelligent design, sharing some of what he studied while at Cambridge University. What methods do scientists use to study biological origins? Is there a distinctive method of historical scientific inquiry? Meyer set off to investigate not only the history of scientific ideas about the origin of life, but also questions about the definition of science and about how s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of an ID Theorist: Stephen C. Meyer and the Origin of Life This episode of ID the Future tells the story of how philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer first began his quest for the origin of life. How did one of the architects of the intelligent design movement move from the oilfields of Texas to the study halls of Cambridge to pursue the mystery of where biological information originated? Listen in and find out. The new book, Signature in the Cell, tells the rest of the story, the culmination of over 20 years of study and research on the orig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matter and the Mind: Part Three With UK Darwin-Doubter James LeFanu This episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of Casey Luskin's interview with James LeFanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves, which discusses the problems for the materialist account of the human mind. How do we get from the electrochemical activity of the brain to the richness of the human mind? Listen in as Dr. LeFanu summarizes the five things that material science can’t tell us about the non-material mind. Listen to part one of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rediscovering the Mystery of Ourselves: Part Two With Science Writer James LeFanu This episode of ID the Future features part two of Casey Luskin's interview with James LeFanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. According to Dr. LeFanu, one of the problems with Darwin’s theory and where it stands today is that it presupposes that the argument is closed, draining interest and fascination from the question of our origins. Dr. LeFanu discusses the problems with the Darwinian explanation for the evolution of the eye and how the developm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Doubting in the UK: Columnist, Doctor and Author James LeFanu This episode of ID the Future features part one of Casey Luskin's interview with James LeFanu, author of Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. Dr. LeFanu shares his perspective as someone who straddles two worlds, encountering science on a micro level in his practice as a medical doctor, and reflecting on the broader aspects of science and medicine as an author and columnist for the UK's Daily Telegraph. Dr. LeFanu explains why he doubts the too-simplistic Darwinian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PSSI International Adventures With Darwinists in Spain, Part Two On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his interview with Rich Akin, the founder and CEO of Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity (PSSI) International. Dr. Akin shares stories from his adventures in Spain, where PSSI International stirred up trouble with Darwinists and caused a tempest that is still raging today. For background information on Dr. Akin's stories, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity, Part One On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin interviews Rich Akin from Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity, who shares why he founded the organization for Darwin-doubting doctors and the misinformation about his organization on Wikipedia. Listen in as Dr. Akin explains more about PSSI International. If you are a physician or surgeon who dissents from Darwinism, please consider joining PSSI International here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Athens Met Jerusalem With John Mark Reynolds On this episode of ID the Future Logan Gage interviews CSC Fellow John Mark Reynolds, author of the new book, When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought, an introduction to classical and Christian thought. Listen in as Dr. Reynolds explains the role that classical and Christian thought played in the development of modern science and examines some of the design thinking of ancient philosophers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benjamin Wiker on Darwin, the Man and the Myth On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. What were Darwin's actual religious and philosophical views? Are atheists abusing Darwin's theory when they say Darwinism supports their atheist belief? Listen in as Dr. Wiker answers and explains the natural outgrowth of Social Darwinism from Darwin's theory. Listen to previous IDTF episodes featuring Dr. Wiker here and here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law and J. Budziszewski On this episode of ID the Future Logan Gage interviews CSC fellow J. Budziszewski on his new book, The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction. What is Natural Law? Listen in as Dr. Budziszewski explains how humans as rational creatures differ from animals driven by instinct, and the evidence for "a deep structure to the human moral intellect" or design in Natural Law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Atheists, New Theistic Evolutionists, and Who Is Right? FaithandEvolution.org This episode of ID the Future features Anika Smith interviewing CSC associate director John West on the launch of the new website, FaithandEvolution.org, bringing clarity to the conversation between the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins and the new theistic evolutionists like Francis Collins. Is faith in God compatible with Darwinian evolution? Who is right, and why does it matter? Listen in, and check out FaithandEvolution.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Response to the YouTube Challenge to Discovery Institute On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin takes a look at a recent "challenge" issued via YouTube to Discovery Institute, asking the question, Does any critic out there understand intelligent design? Is there genetic evidence for intelligent design? Tune in and find out. Click here to read more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Case Closed: Guillermo Dekat Reviews Science's Blind Spot Click here to listen. In today’s episode of ID The Future, CSC legal intern Guillermo Dekat reviews Cornelius G. Hunter’s book Science’s Blind Spot. In law, Dekat explains, people harmed by a product are entitled to damages if they can prove the product is defective. If dogmatic science is a product under investigation, he continues, then Hunter’s work in Blind Spot proves its defects. Dekat charts Hunter’s arguments about science’s "theological naturalism" and provides an ove ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socratic Method: Short Stories and James Hoskins Today on ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews James Hoskins about his latest creative writing endeavors. Hoskins, a philosophy major at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has written several pieces based on the debate between ID and Darwinian evolution, including one that pits Socrates and imaginary materialist Hector Dawkins against each other as they argue over the scientific merit of ID. Hoskins also reads excerpts from some of his stories, and describes the inspiration behind the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design 101: Casey Luskin on Human Chromosomal Fusion On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin continues the series begun in the previous podcast (Intelligent Design 101: State of the Debate), rebutting an argument for common ancestry between humans and chimpanzees in Dr. Francis Collins' book The Language of God. Taken from a recently finished appendix to Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues, Luskin responds to the notion that similar chromosomal structure between the two species is proof of a common lineage by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swine Flu and the Edge of Evolution On this episode ofID the Future, Casey Luskin takes a look at the swine flu virus and what it tells us about evolution and how the limits of evolution help us combat dangerous viruses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design 101: State of the Debate On this episode ofID the Future, Casey Luskin announces the release ofIntelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues, an anthology that tackles intelligent design from scientific, philosophical, and legal perspectives. Luskin shares from an insightful new essay by Phillip Johnson about the state of the debate over intelligent design and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Spontaneous Generationists On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews writer Robert Deyes on The New Spontaneous Generationists, who argue that "matter and energy somehow self-originated into complex forms without outside intelligence." While we may have moved beyond expecting rats to materialize from garbage heaps and maggots from decaying meat, materialists today are trying to simulate the origin of first life without intelligent agency -- and they're failing. Listen in to learn why, and read Deyes' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Panda's Thumb Really Proof of Evolution? On this episode of ID The Future we’re highlighting a short clip of senior fellow Dr. Paul Nelson describing his meeting with the late, famous defender of Darwinism, Stephen J. Gould, and whether or not the Panda's Thumb is obviously proof of evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Action Alert When elected officials take a stand for academic freedom, they become targets for the Darwin lobby. Because of his leadership and support for critical thinking on evolution, Texas State Board of Education Chair Don McLeroy has been targeted by Darwin's defenders in the Texas Senate who want to remove him from his position. Less than a month ago, the Texas Board adopted landmark science standards that will protect teachers who want to let students evaluate and critique the evidence for Darw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evidence for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin responds to emails from students who want to know the scientific evidence for intelligent design. What do we really mean when we say that evolution is a scientific theory? Is there a positive case to be made for ID? Listen in and find out. For more information, check out The Positive Case for Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deconstructing Dawkins On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Paul Gage reviews Alister McGrath's The Dawkins Delusion, the first book-length critique of Richard Dawkins' infamous The God Delusion. Listen in as Gage explains where McGrath succeeds in writing "with a scholarly care and graciousness," but fails to address Darwinism, assuming instead that theism is compatible with Darwin's theory. Full text of Gage's review is available here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jonathan Wells on The Language of God On this episode of ID the Future Logan Gage interviews Dr. Jonathan Wells on his recent review of Francis Collins' The Language of God, addressing questions of common ancestry, mistaken definitions of intelligent design, and Collins' use of so-called "junk"-DNA to advance a "Darwin-of-the-gaps" argument. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exposing Darwinist Ronald Wetherington’s Bluffs About Human Evolution This episode of ID the Future explores the many holes in SMU professor Ronald Wetherington's testimony before the Texas State Board of Education. Listen in as Casey Luskin explains why Wetherington -- and anyone else who claims that there are "no gaps" in the fossil record or "no lack of transitional fossils" in human evolution -- overstates his case. For more rebutting Ronald Wetherington's testimony, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calling Darwinist David Hillis' Bluffs Before the Texas State Board of Education On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin exposes the many bluffs and blunders of Darwinist David Hillis, who testified before the Texas State Board of Education with the outlandish claim that there's "overwhelming agreement" on the Tree of Life -- the same day that New Scientist published "Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life." Listen in as IDTF calls Hillis' bluff. Click here to read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Predictions from an Intelligent Design Perspective: Conversation with Biologist Luman Wing, Part 3 On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Luman Wing explains to Casey Luskin about the predictions of an intelligent design perspective in biology. Wing discusses junk-DNA, the irreducible complexity of the blood clotting cascade, and the implications of ID and Darwinism on personalized medicine. Dr. Luman Wing is a signer of A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID The Future: From Darwinist to Darwin Doubter On this episode of ID The Future a chemist explains how he went from being a Darwinist to becoming a Darwin skeptic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Charles Garner on Chirality and Origin of Life Research On this episode ofID the FutureCasey Luskin interviewsDr. Charles Garnerin Austin, TX, where they both were for theBoard of Education hearingslast week. Listen in as Dr. Garner explains his research in chemistry, particularly the chirality of molecules and the importance of homochirality to origin of life research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Systems Biology and Intelligent Design: Conversation with Biologist Luman Wing, Part 2 In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Luman Wing, a signer of the Dissent From Darwinism list. Dr. Wing discusses his support for systems biology and the reasons he thinks this approach to biology lends support to the theory of intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Board Hears From Scientists Who Favor Teaching Strengths and Weaknesses of Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, John West reports on the Texas State Board of Education hearings where scientists, teachers and students gathered to testify before the Board. One side focused on touting their own religious beliefs and criticizing the religious beliefs of others, while the other side focused on science, education, and academic freedom. Listen to the testimony of scientists down in Texas and learn what the debate over how to teach evolution is really all about. For conti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Junk-RNA" Meeting Same End as "Junk-DNA" What will Darwinists do now? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a new paper published in Nature which threatens the Darwinian "junk-RNA" paradigm. Listen in as Luskin explains how we're still waiting for Darwinists to let go of their precious "junk" arguments for blind evolution and common descent. For more information, go here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questioning Darwinian Dogma: Conversation with Biologist Luman Wing, Part 1 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Luman Wing, a signer of the Dissent from Darwinism statement who has spent many years working in biotechnology. Dr. Wing recounts his observations as an undergraduate studying under Dr. Dean Kenyon at San Francisco State University at the time that Dr. Kenyon underwent his intellectual de-conversion from Darwinism, and rescinded his textbook promoting the natural chemical origin of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cesare Lombroso and the Rise of Darwinian Criminal Justice On this episode of ID the Future, John West shares from his book, Darwin Day in America, about Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the New School of Criminal Anthropology. Lombroso and his disciples contended that criminal behavior could be explained largely as a throwback to earlier stages of Darwinian evolution. Listen in as West illustrates the consequences of applying Darwin's theory to criminal justice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Update: Where Are We in 2009? On this episode ofID the Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin gives listeners an update on what’s going on with academic freedom legislation around America. Academic freedom bills submitted in five states already this year, including Oklahoma, Iowa, New Mexico, Missouri and Alabama. Listen in to today’s podcast as Luskin explains how Darwinist opposition to the bills is showing why academic freedom legislation is necessary to protect teachers from a climate of intimidation.Learn more and sign ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Robert Crowther highlights one of the foundational books of the theory of intelligent design. No Free Lunch, the sequel to mathematician and CSC senior fellow William Dembski’s Cambridge University Press book The Design Inference, explores key questions about the origin of specified complexity. No Free Lunch demonstrates that design theory shows great promise of providing insight in the field of evolutionary computation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Freedom of Discovery on Evolutionists' Holy Day In this podcast, CSC 's Casey Luskin presents his piece from the U.S. News and World Report titled, “Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Freedom of Discovery on Evolutionists' Holy Day.” Luskin describes how many modern day evolutionists reject Charles Darwin’s call for academic freedom in the debate over evolution. The op-ed also recounts a recent incident where Ben Stein, star of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, was himself “expelled” from the University of Vermont due to his v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Economics: Capitalism or Marxism? Does Darwinism lend support more naturally to a capitalist moral-economic perspective or to a Marxist one? On this episode ofID the Future, CSC scholar David Klinghoffer explores the deep Darwinian roots of Communism, arguing that, while Marx had already begun sketching the outlines of his ideas before Darwin published theOrigin of Species, he is fairly called a Darwinist, and the men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defending Critical Analysis in Cross-Examination: Dr. Stephen Meyer Answers Questions in Texas This episode of ID the Future features Dr. Stephen Meyer responding to his critics during a questioning period before the Texas State Board of Education last month. Listen in as philosopher of science Meyer cuts through the rhetorical strategies in this debate and exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the Darwinist position, rebutting the misinformation about Discovery Institute’s education policy and laying out the legitimate scientific dissent from Darwin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chemist Charles Garner on Chemical Evolution On this ID the Future podcast, Chemistry Professor Charles Garner from Baylor University testifies before the Texas State Board of Education about the need to teach students about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution. Dr. Garner specifically focuses on chemical evolution, emphasizing some of the scientific weaknesses in theories of a natural chemical origin of life, and encourages that evidence to be taught in Texas science classrooms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 200 Years After Darwin -- What Didn't Darwin Know? This special video episode of ID the Future celebrates Darwin Day with a look back at the man and his theory by three scientists and scholars who join in the scientific dissent from evolution. Biologist Jonathan Wells, author and M.D. Geoffrey Simmons, and molecular biologist Douglas Axe shed light on the problems with Darwin's theory as they share what led each of them to their skepticism. Jonathan Wells first became skeptical of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, but it was in h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biologist Ralph Seelke Speaks Out in Support of Teaching the Controversy Biologist Ralph Seelke is one of the scientists who aren’t supposed to exist -- he’s skeptical of Darwin’s theory of evolution. As a professor at University of Wisconsin-Superior, Dr. Seelke tests what evolution can actually do. In January, Dr. Seelke testified about his research before the Texas Board of Education, and this episode of ID the Future features audio from his presentation. Listen in and learn why scientists support teaching the strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Scientist Dissents From Darwinism: Dr. Mauricio Alcocer Ruthling In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Scientific Dissent From Darwinism signer, biologist Mauricio Alcocer Ruthling, about scientific problems with evolution. Dr. Alcocer Ruthling received his Ph.D. in plant science from the University of Idaho and is now Director of Graduate Studies at the Universidad Autónoma in Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Alcocer Ruthling has studied the importance of fitness costs to the use of herbicides and explains why fitness costs demonstrate the e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Well-Informed: Dr. Robert Marks and the Evolutionary Informatics Lab In today’s episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Robert Marks about his work in evolutionary informatics at Baylor University. Marks explains that evolutionary informatics seeks to emulate evolution on a computer, allowing for new engineering designs to be developed. Unlike Darwinian evolution, this process does not advance gradually, and requires a certain amount of external information to be fed into the computer before the process can begin; in other words, the systems ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution Has Weaknesses: Dr. Meyer Testifies in Texas This episode of ID the Future features CSC director Dr. Stephen Meyer’s opening remarks to the Texas State Board of Education, where he testified last week in favor of keeping critical analysis of evolution in the Texas science standards. Listen in as Dr. Meyer explains some of the problems with Darwin’s theory, including the Cambrian Explosion. For more information and continuing updates about the controversy in Texas, visit Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Board Chair Gives a Science Lesson Last week, the Texas State Board of Education met to consider a draft of their new science standards. At the meeting, the Board’s Chair, Dr. Don McLeroy did a remarkable thing – he gave the rest of the Board a science lesson, which began when McLeroy proposed a new standard regarding evolution. Listen in to this episode of ID the Future as Dr. McLeroy lays out a compelling case for the existence of scientific controversies over evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Question Everything: An Interview with Author Gordy Slack On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Gordy Slack, author of The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA. Slack shares his personal views on intelligent design and the socio-political implications of the ID-evolution debate. Luskin’s interview with Slack is illuminating and thought-provoking as they compare their experience at the infamous Dover trial, and while they disagree on the issues, this remains a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Curious Case of the Evolving Dr. Schafersman Who’s really trying to dumb down how evolution is presented in schools today? This episode of ID the Future takes a look at the curious case of the evolving Dr. Steven Schafersman and what we can learn from it about current debates over teaching evolution. Listen in as CSC Associate Director John West traces the changing rhetoric of Dr. Schafersman of the misnomered “Texas Citizens for Better Science,” and the next time you hear a Darwinist claim that there are no scientific controve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Consensus Doesn't Count Darwinists often point out that Darwin’s theory is supported by a majority of scientists and so only the evidence that supports the theory should be presented to students. On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s John West explains that when it comes to setting public policy, dissenting views on science can be critically important and should be encouraged. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Day -- What Can You Do? On this episode of ID the Future we take a look at the need for academic freedom on evolution. As Darwinists around the world gear up for Darwin Day 2009, we hope they remember Darwin's own words on the need for free scientific inquiry: "A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” Listen in to find out how you can mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth by standing up for academic freedom on evolution a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Doesn't Go There: Opposing Views, Part 4 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin makes the case that intelligent design has scientific merit because it is does not try to address religious questions about the supernatural. ID limits its claims to what can be scientifically inferred from the empirical domain, setting it apart from creationism. Listen in as Luskin shows how ID is a legitimate scientific alternative to neo-Darwinism that has key differences from creationism. This podcast is taken from a series of articles p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of a Darwin Dissenter Part II On this second of a two part ID The Future, CSC's Casey Luskin continues his discussion with CSC Fellow Dr. Geoffrey Simmons about evolution and vestigial organs. What makes a doctor skeptical of Darwinian evolution? How can doctors express their scientific dissent from Darwinism? Listen in as Dr. Simmons shares from his knowledge in the medical field. Dr. Simmons is a licensed and practicing physician in Eugene, OR, and the author of the books What Darwin Didn't Know (2004) and Billio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design's Implications Don't Discredit Its Scientific Merit: Opposing Views, Part 3 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin explains why any philosophical implications of intelligent design, or any religious motives, beliefs, and affiliations of ID proponents, do not disqualify ID from having scientific merit. This podcast is taken from a series of articles published at OpposingViews.com and can be read here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top 10 Darwin and Design Resources from 2008 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Kevin Wirth and Dennis Wagner of Access Research Network (ARN) on their top ten Darwin and Design resources from 2008. Listen in as they take a look back on the year that brought us ID in a video game, books by both agnostics and theists supporting design, and the number 1 political documentary of 2008. To read more about ARN's Top 10 Resources for 2008, click here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of a Darwin Dissenter On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's Casey Luskin interviews CSC Fellow Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on what makes him skeptical Darwinian evolution. Dr. Simmons has a BS in biology; coursework completed for MS in microbiology, University of Illinois; an M.D., University of Illinois Medical School; Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, LAC-USC Medical Center; Boarded in Internal Medicine since 1974. He is a licensed and practicing physician in Eugene, OR, and the author of the books Wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimetics and the Positive Implications for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin looks at Biomimetics, a new movement in science that adapts designs from nature to solve problems in engineering, materials science, medicine, and other fields. While engineers and other researchers turn to nature for guidance and inspiration in producing human technology, the positive implications for intelligent design grow. Should scientists consider the possibility that biological systems, which outperform human technology, were intellige ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Discovery Jeopardizes Darwinist Argument Against Cambrian Explosion On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how trails of microorganisms knock down a favorite Darwinist argument against the Cambrian explosion. Listen in as Luskin explains why Darwinists remain stuck — whether they like it or not — with a very explosive Cambrian explosion that isn't the mere artifact of an imperfect fossil record. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feathered Dinosaurs or Flightless Birds? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the latest fossil evidence of so-called feathered dinosaur fossil. While the mainstream media trumpets these finds as conclusive evidence in the case for evolution, Luskin explores whether the “feathered dinos” might actually be secondarily flightless birds. Have Darwinists interpreted the evidence to fit the data, or to fit their evolutionary paradigm? Listen in and find out. For more information on today’s topic, click here ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dawkins' Anti-Religious Crusade On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Casey Luskin examines Richard Dawkins' crusade against religion and what it might mean for the teaching of evolution in schools. Why did Michael Ruse write to Dawkins and tell him that he was an "absolute disaster in the fight against intelligent design"? Listen in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Animal Minds, Materialism, and Francis Crick On this episode of ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and UCLA psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz join Casey Luskin for a discussion of materialism and its effect on modern science. Listen in to a conversation that begins with the question of whether animals have souls and turns to a lively discussion of Francis Crick and the way his materialist ideology blinded him to the implications of his own scientific discovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mind-Brain Interaction and Science Fiction On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and UCLA psychiatristJeffrey Schwartz on the interaction between the mind and the brain in science fiction. Could the mind really be an illusion from a computer program, like in The Matrix? Listen in as Drs. Egnor and Schwartz explain how materialist fictions ultimately beg the question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mind over Matter: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the Implications for Materialism On this episode of ID the Future, UCLA psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz shares with Casey Luskin about his research on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). What does neuroscience tell us about the relationship between the mind and the brain? Schwartz explains in his book, The Mind and the Brain, that patients treated for OCD actually had the power to change the neural pathways in their brains by the power of their minds. What does this mean for materialism in medicine? Listen in and discov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Materialism and Human Dignity On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook, on the relationship between the mind and the brain. Listen in as Dr. Egnor explains how a materialist understanding of the mind undermines human dignity, affecting bioethics, criminal law, and ultimately how we treat one another as human beings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part One This episode of ID the Future features part one of Casey Luskin's interview with atheist philosopher of physics Bradley Monton, author of a new book on intelligent design. Prof. Monton has a unique perspective of the debate over intelligent design as an atheist who is trying to elevate the debate. Professor Monton is debating intelligent design and the existence of God this weekend in Fort Worth, TX. Click here for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Frankenstein: Giovanni Aldini On this episode of ID the Future, John West shares the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In his book, Darwin Day in America, West examines the experiments Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini conducted on human corpses. His gruesome work provided the inspiration for Frankenstein and foreshadowed the rise of a virulent strain of materialism that attempted to use science to reduce human beings to mere matter in motion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Stein Responds to Critics of Expelled Today on ID the Future we feature a special video podcast highlighting the new Expelled DVD, out next week. To celebrate, we're giving away 10 free copies of the movie at Evolution News & Views. What did the critics think of Expelled, how did audiences respond to the film in theaters, and what does Ben Stein have to say about it? Watch this podcast and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Darwinian Case for Capitalism? This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt of a lecture by CSC Senior Fellow John West on Darwinism and capitalism. Most people associate "social Darwinism" with the ruthless capitalists of the Gilded Age, but West debunks that cultural icon, drawing the connection between Thomas Malthus and Darwin and examining the implications of zero-sum economics in Malthusian theory. Can conservatives appeal to Darwin's theory to defend capitalism? What about the so-called undesigned "spont ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Michael Behe Came to Doubt Darwin's Theory This episode of ID the Future features a clip from national radio host Michael Medved's intriguing interview with CSC senior fellow and biochemist Michael Behe. How did Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box and The Edge of Evolution first come to doubt Darwin's theory? Listen in and find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dissent Over Descent: Interview with Steve Fuller On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin is again joined by University of Warwick sociologist Steve Fuller, the author of the recent book, Dissent Over Descent. Highlighting topics from his book, Fuller explains the nature and problem of a scientific consensus on controversial topics, argues that intelligent design is not anti-science (just anti-establishment), criticizes Kenneth Miller�s intelligently designed experiments that supposedly show �natural� selection, and predicts ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billions of Missing Links: A Rational Look at the Mysteries that Evolution Can't Explain On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Geoffrey Simmons, author of the book Billions of Missing Links. In the book Simmons shows that as modern science has progressed from the visible to the invisible (microscopic, submicroscopic, genetic, biochemical and genetic) the numbers of missing links have skyrocketed. Every "link" discovered brings many more questions (missing links) than answers. Listen to hear more about science�s missing links, and click here to visi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Physicist and Bioengineer Discusses His Doubts About Darwin On this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Bert Massie a physicist who worked for many years on the Dept of Defense�s Star Wars project, and for the past dozen years has worked in biotechnology, developing methods of scanning the retinas of infants to test for blindness. Massie explains how it is that after his extensive education and his career in science he has become a skeptic of Darwin, and discusses the evidence for intelligent design in physics, chemistry, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Limits to Biological Change: An Interview with Ray Bohlin In this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Anika Smith interviews CSC Fellow Ray Bohlin. Ray Bohlin earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and is the current Presidents of Probe Ministries. During his academic studies Bohlin developed doubts about evolution that he then explored in his book The Natural Limits to Biological Change, written in 1984. Listen as he explains his skepticism of evolution and offers advice for emerging scientific doubte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rodney LeVake: Expelled Science Teacher, Part 1 On this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Rodney LeVake, the plaintiff in the Academic Freedom court case LeVake vs. Independent School District #656. LeVake, a former high school biology teacher, informally expressed doubts about evolution to a colleague who then reported him to the principal. LeVake ended up losing his biology position, not because he taught creationism or intelligent design, but merely because he expressed reservations about evolution to a colleag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Universe: Meaningful or Meaningless? Is the universe meaningless as many modern scientists would have us believe? In this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Robert Crowther reads the prologue from A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, a book aimed at counteracting this unfortunately pervasive western view. Written by authors Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt, A Meaningful World seeks to act as an �antidote� for the �poison� of the relativism and meaninglessness supposedly existing in our worl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irreducibly Complex: Behe on the Bacterial Flagellum On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Senior Fellow Michael Behe, the well known author of Darwin�s Black Box, and more recently, The Edge of Evolution. Behe shares his work on the bacterial flagellar motor and explains why, in his view, the flagellum is irreducibly complex. Behe also examines the two currently proposed evolutionary explanations for the assembly of the flagellum, co-option and homology, showing why both proposals fall short in uncovering the orig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebutting Methodological Materialism: Interview With Angus Menuge, Part Two On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Angus Menuge on his latest research, including his arguments rebutting methodological materialism, a defense of downward mental causation, and a non-materialist theory of information. Listen in as he shares from his experience debating PZ Myers on how neuroscience actually points to the existence of non-material causes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agents Under Fire: Part One With Angus Menuge On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Angus Menuge, professor of philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and author of Agents Under Fire, Materialism and the Rationality of Science. Dr. Menuge shares how he got involved in the debate over intelligent design and evolution and what made him a skeptic of Darwinian evolution. Listen in as Dr. Menuge explains what is necessary for the Darwinian account of evolutionary complex systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Evolution Have Any Practical Benefits for Science? Does evolution have any practical benefits for science? In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reveals that the answer, surprisingly, is no. Listen as Luskin discusses past biological discoveries, reviews recent surveys of biologists, and quotes several scientists, including noted Professor of Biology and intelligent design critic Jerry Coyne. All three sources agree: the theory of evolution has yielded few practical benefits for scientific discovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Do Some Scientists Oppose ID? In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin explains why many scientists oppose intelligent design. He argues that most of the objections to ID rest on false caricatures and misunderstandings of the theory. Is ID just a negative argument against evolution? Does ID necessarily appeal to a God-of-the-Gaps? Is ID an attempt to disguise theology as science? Listen as Casey addresses these questions and shows how ID is a positive and scientific argument that infers the best explanation: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Humans Biological Accidents? On this episode of ID The Future, Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells counters the Darwinian claim that humans are accidents of biology and the result of unguided natural processes like natural selection and survival of the fittest. Listen as Wells explains why Darwinism is a materialist creation myth that three-quarters of Americans are correct in rejecting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Things to Know about Intelligent Design This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from Dr. John West�s opening comments at �Evolution and Intelligent Design: An Exchange,� a panel at a recent conference sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Here Dr. West outlines the three most important things people should know about the intelligent design and evolution debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is ID Creationism? William Dembski Answers Top Three Objections to ID On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues an interview with leading intelligent design theorist and CSC Senior Fellow William Dembski. Together, Dembski and Luskin address the three most common objections to design: that it is improper to infer design based on unlikely probabilities, that dysfunctional or suboptimal biological structures disprove that they were designed, and that intelligent design is nothing more than repacked creationism. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Spots: Dr. Cornelius Hunter and Science's Blind Spot On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin speaks with biophysicist and author Cornelius Hunter about naturalism, the dogma of evolution, and his new book Science�s Blind Spot. According to Hunter, naturalism predominates in modern science and is assumed to be capable of explaining every phenomenon in the universe. Hunter traces the historical development of this mindset, and investigates the usefulness and limitations of naturalistic science. He also analyzes the interface between natu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolutionary Economics? On this video episode of IDTF, Senior Fellow Dr. John West takes a look at free market economics and business. It is often claimed that the free market operates like biological natural selection because the best ideas and products survive while others die out. However, West argues that the success of products and ideas is the result of intelligent decisions in designing products and developing new ideas. To mix economics and evolution together is to misunderstand both. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Designed the Designer? On this episode of ID The Future we have a short clip of Dr. Jay Richards, discussing the question who designed the designer? Critics of intelligent design theory often throw this question out thinking to highlight a weakness in ID. Richards shows that the theory�s inability to identify the designer is not a weakness, but a strength. ID does not identify the designer is because ID limits its claims to those which can be established by empirical evidence. As CSC Senior Fellow Dr. Michael ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PBS' Think Tank Video Explaining Differences Between Intelligent Design and Creationism On this episode of ID The Future we are highlighting a second short clip from PBS' Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg that features CSC Director Dr. Stephen Meyer explaining the differences between intelligent design, evolution and creationism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Antithesis In this episode of IDTF, CSC�s Logan Gage discusses the �new� atheists� approach to religion as a byproduct of evolution. Citing new research which shows that some religious beliefs and ways of processing are innate and are thus not accumulated by experience, Gage explains why the �new� atheists� views are unfairly biased against religious beliefs and why they are ultimately self defeating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alfred Russel Wallace: Champion of Natural Selection or Intelligent Design? Many credit Alfred Russel Wallace, who along with Darwin co-presented the theory of natural selection in letters to the Linnean Society of London, 150 years ago this year. But few seem to remember that, contrary to Darwin, Wallace actually believed that it was possible to detect design in nature. So, what would modern Darwin defenders make of Wallace today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current State of Origins of Life Research On this episode of ID The Future we feature a short series of comments from Dr. Ed Pelzer on the status of current theories of origin of life research. Dr. Pelzer holds a PhD in oceanography from Scripps Oceanographic Institution at UCSD, and was a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for over twenty years. These comments are from the new documentary film Teaching Origins Objectively available through the Intelligent Design Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current State of Origins of Life Research On this episode of ID The Future we feature a short series of comments from Dr. Ed Pelzer on the status of current theories of origin of life research. Dr. Pelzer holds a PhD in oceanography from Scripps Oceanographic Institution at UCSD, and was a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for over twenty years. These comments are from the new documentary film Teaching Origins Objectively available through the Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID and the Arts, Part II On this episode of ID The Future, Dennis Wagner of ARN discusses how ID inspires the arts and the specific material on idarts.org. This is part two of a series on idarts.org,/b>, a website which pushes the frontier for ID theory and opens the discussion for design to the metaphysical and philosophical questions raised by ID. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design and the Arts On this episode of ID The Future we have Dennis Wagner, executive director of the Access Research Network. Dennis discusses the launch of ARN's new website on intelligent design and the arts, www.idarts.org. Dennis explains how artists such as Jody Sjogren reflect the greater design of the universe in their work. IDarts includes examples from literature, poetry, music, theater, film and painting to explore this exciting new movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Evolution is Being Overhyped as the Cornerstone of the Biological Sciences Robert Crowther On this episode of ID The Future the CSC's Robert Crowther explores the growing number of claims that Darwinian evolution is the foundation of biology, the backbone of science, and the source for many new biodiscoveries. Are the assertions true? Is evolution the cornerstone of the biological sciences? Let's find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Textbook Promotes Better Teaching of Evolution With the recent news coverage on teaching strengths and weaknesses, we thought it worth taking a look at a science textbook that teaches the whole story on evolution. This episode of ID the Future examines the new textbook Explore Evolution: Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism. This is the first biology textbook to present the scientific evidence both for and against key aspects of Darwinian evolution. Explore Evolution ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching Kids the Controversy On this episode ofID the Futurewe interview Dr. Rebecca Keller, who discusses the nature of science and interpretation and how it applies to science education.Dr. Keller holds a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of New Mexico, spent many years doing biochemical research on molecular machines and is an outspoken proponent of teaching students about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian evolution. As the CEO of Gravitas Publications , she publishes theRea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Challenge Assumptions: Revisiting an Interview With Dr. Keller In this ID the Future Podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Rebecca Keller, a signer of the Dissent from Darwinism list, about her views on biological evolution. Dr. Keller holds a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of New Mexico, spent many years doing biochemical research on molecular machines, and is an outspoken proponent of teaching students about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian evolution. She is also the CEO of Gravitas Publications , which p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Question Darwin and Face the Consequences What happens when a professor decides to present students with evidence that challenges Darwin's theory? Find out on this episode of ID the Future, where we've highlighted comments from biochemist Nancy Bryson, a professor who knows firsthand the importance of academic freedom on college campuses. Dr. Bryson was removed from her position as head of the division of natural sciences at Mississippi University for Women when she presented criticisms of evolution to a group of honor students. L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Berlinski on "The Devil's Delusion" On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute senior fellow David Berlinski shares about his new book The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. Are the new atheists really new? Has anyone provided scientific proof of God's nonexistence (or existence)? What is the source of militant atheism? Listen in as Dr. Berlinski explains his new book, and be sure to catch him in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed this Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design 101: Casey Luskin on Human Chromosomal Fusion On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin continues the series begun in the previous podcast (Intelligent Design 101: State of the Debate), rebutting an argument for common ancestry between humans and chimpanzees in Dr. Francis Collins' book The Language of God. Taken from a recently finished appendix to Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain Key Issues, Luskin responds to the notion that similar chromosomal structure between the two species is proof of a common lineage by sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design 101: State of the Debate On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin announces the release of Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues, a new anthology that tackles intelligent design from scientific, philosophical, and legal perspectives. Luskin shares from an insightful new essay by Phillip Johnson about the state of the debate over intelligent design and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jonathan Wells Reviews The Language of God On this episode of ID the Future Logan Gage interviews Dr. Jonathan Wells on his recent review of Francis Collins' The Language of God, addressing questions of common ancestry, mistaken definitions of intelligent design, and Collins' use of so-called "junk"-DNA to advance a "Darwin-of-the-gaps" argument. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Michael Egnor's Brain Hypothesis On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Gage interviews professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook Michael Egnor. Dr. Egnor discusses his current research into cerebral blood flow and the buffering of the brain from the force of blood pumped by the heart. Dr. Egnor's approach to this problem is that of an engineer, using the design inference to understand how the brain protects itself from the pulsatility of the arterial blood flow of the heart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Florida Teacher Speaks Out in Support of Academic Freedom Act On this episode of ID The Future you will hear from Robin Brown a Florida school teacher who is supporting the Academic Freedom Act recently introduced in the state legislature. Robin spoke at a press conference about the legislation which also included Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin and star of the coming film Expelled, Ben Stein. If you'd like to hear for yourself what was said at the press conference in support of Florida's proposed Academic Freedom Act in Tallahassee you can downl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mind-Body Problem and Promissory Materialism On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Logan Gage interviews professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook Michael Egnor on the mind-body problem and promissory materialism. Dr. Egnor explains how materialism has not been able to answer the "hard problem of consciousness." Instead, as promissory materialism, it claims that materialism as a theory will eventually be able to explain what it has yet to explain at all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-Academic Freedom Activists Push to Censor Science Education in Florida This episode of ID the Future features breaking news from the battle over science education in Florida, where anti-academic freedom activists are pushing to censor science education. Casey Luskin explains what SB 2692, the Academic Freedom Act, really entails and why it's important to sign the petition at www.academicfreedompetition.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extrasolar Planets, the Copernican Principle, and Expelled: An Interview with Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Part 1 On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez joins Casey Luskin for an interview, delightfully holding forth on the Copernican Principle and his latest research regarding extrasolar planets. Listen in as Dr. Gonzalez also shares about his experience being interviewed for the upcoming film, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Darwinism Have Any Impact on Modern Medical Science? On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin takes a look at the medical field and how it relates to Darwinism. Is Darwinian evolutionary theory a big part of how doctors think and the way they practice medicine?. According to Professor of Neurosurgery, Dr. Michael Egnor, the answer is no. The modern practice of medicine does not rely at all on neo-Darwinism. In the past, especially in the early 20th century, explains Egnor, the medical field did get a large dose of Darwinism, most ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution's Glass Ceiling On this episode of ID the Future, acclaimed author and Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer takes a look at the academic freedom � or lack thereof � for scientists who support intelligent design, scientists who are forced to don disguises and go underground in order to protect their careers. This podcast is based on Mr. Klinghoffer's commentary in Townhall Magazine, "Evolution's Glass Ceiling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Does a Brain Surgeon Become a Darwin Skeptic? On this episode of ID The Future Dr. Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, tells his story of how he became a full-blown skeptic of Darwinian evolution. Dr. Egnor explains how he originally had internal doubt about the ability of Darwinism to produce new biological information. These doubts were then brought directly to the surface when he read books by leading ID-theorists like William Dembski and Michael Behe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts: On Crit