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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 Is the earth uniquely situated for scientific observation? Do we live on a privileged planet? On this episode of ID The Future we have a short clip about the book The Privileged Planet. In the book, authors Jay Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez suggest that earth was designed for scientific discovery. They introduce a new idea that more than just being rare in the universe, the earth is ideally located for scientific observation. 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 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 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 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 The Dark Darwinian History of Eugenics On this episode of ID the Future, John West takes a look at the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century and how it drew direct inspiration from Darwinian biology and the writings of Charles Darwin himself. The eugenics movement was no fringe effort, but was the view of mainstream science and espoused by those at Harvard, Princeton, and the National Academy of Science. For more, visit the website of Dr. West's book, Darwin Day in America. 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 Intelligent Design's Scientific Merit in Paleontology: Opposing Views, Part 2 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin explores intelligent design's scientific merit in paleontology. While many of our listeners may be familiar with the evidence for ID in biology, the fossil record shows us that there's a strong argument for intelligent design worth examining in paleontology, as well. Listen in to learn more. 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 The Scientific Merit of Intelligent Design: Opposing Views, Part 1 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin explains the scientific merit of intelligent design. Is ID testable? How do pro-ID biologists apply intelligent design to biology? What does it mean that ID is an historical science? Listen in and hear the enumerated reasons why ID is science. 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 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 Top 10 Intelligent Design News Stories of 2008 On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner and Kevin Wirth from Access Research Network (ARN) on their “Top 10 Darwin and Design News Stories of 2008.” It’s been an exciting year for the debate over intelligent design and evolution, with news about Biologic Institute, a molecular clutch in the bacterial flagellum, and a surprising twist for those who doubt Darwin. Check out this rundown of the year in review. 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 The Story of Jesse Kilgore and the Consequences of Teaching One Side This episode of ID the Future tells the story of Jesse Kilgore, a college student whose loss of faith and subsequent suicide has been linked to his biology class and Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. After his professor challenged him to read the anti-theistic book and rule out the possibility of God’s existence in light of the evidence for evolution, Jesse experienced a crisis of faith. Now his father is arguing for academic freedom for intelligent design and critiques of Darwin’s ... 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 Materialist Science Fiction at a Public Library On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the lame materialist science fiction being promoted to students at a local public library. With wild speculations on the existence of life outside our planet based on the idea that life just takes a "bing" and some interstellar chemicals, this book should be not on reference shelves, but in the science fiction section. Listen in as Luskin lays a Dewey decimal smackdown on Life on Other Planets. 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 Report From the Texas State Board of Education Hearings In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Jonathan Saenz, Esq., Director of Legislative Affairs & Attorney at the Free Market Foundation in Austin Texas. Mr. Saenz attended this week�s recent meeting of the Texas State Board of Education where members of the public expressed their views on whether Texas public schools should teach students about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution. Mr. Saenz recounts the predictably false and fallacious arguments made by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part Five This episode of ID the Future features the last in a series of interviews with atheist philosopher of physics Bradley Monton. Professor Monton's perspective enriches and expands the debate over intelligent design, as he discusses whether an ID proponent can be an atheist, the scientific evidence for intelligent design, and the importance of the argument from cosmology. Professor Monton also shares his experience dealing with Robert Pennock, a Darwinist philosopher of science who had an in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part Four On this episode of ID the Future, atheist philosopher of science Bradley Monton turns the tables on Casey Luskin, putting the question to him about the Dover trial. What is the story of Discovery Institute's involvement in that infamous case? Listen in as Professor Monton asks good questions and gets good answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part Three On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his interview with atheist philosopher of science Bradley Monton. Professor Monton discusses his role in "The Great Debate on Intelligent Design" last weekend. Interestingly, the two presenters on the pro-ID side, including Prof. Monton, were non-theists. Listen is as Prof. Monton shows that the debate over intelligent design is far more nuanced than most portray it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Importance of Being Human This episode of ID the Future we're highlighting a new podcast by Discovery Institute senior fellow Wesley J. Smith, called What It Means to Be Human. Why is human exceptionalism is so important for universal human rights? Smith defines human exceptionalism and explains that there is a war being waged against unique human worth on many fronts, from personhood theory and the animal liberation movement to radical environmentalism and philosophical materialism. Very powerful forces have dedi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part Two This episode of ID the Future features the second part of Casey Luskin's interview with atheist philosopher of physics Bradley Monton. Prof. Monton shares his experience in the debate over intelligent design and discusses the Dover decision, rebutting trial witness Robert Pennock. Prof. Monton has a unique perspective of the debate over intelligent design as an atheist who is trying to elevate the debate. In 2006, he authored a paper on Judge Jones' Kitzmiller ruling, "Is Intelligent D ... 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 Rehabilitating the Miller-Urey Experiment? On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a new claim by origin of life theorists who seek to rehabilitate the now-discredited Miller-Urey experiment. If life didn't originate in a "vast primordial soup," did volcanoes perhaps play a role? Listen in as Luskin explains how far "plausible prebiotic conditions" are from making life. For more information, read Luskin's article at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Controversy or Hypocrisy? Science Standards, Textbooks, and Texas On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews Casey Luskin about the controversy over science standards currently brewing in Texas. Why is a group of Darwinists up in arms about the experts selected to review the state's science standards? Luskin exposes the truth behind the Darwinists' claims and finds more than a little hypocrisy in their attacks on textbook authors Stephen Meyer and Ralph Seelke. Read Discovery Institute's news release about the bogus controversy here. For c ... 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 Scientific Revolutions and Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, CSC senior fellow and biologist Jonathan Wells joins Casey Luskin to discuss the scientific revolution over intelligent design. Why are some scientists intolerant of new theories? Why do Darwinists refuse to admit any evidence that contradicts Darwin's theory? Listen in as Wells explains why the clash over intelligent design is so sharp, and why he believes intelligent design will win in the end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design, Science, and Kitzmiller: Steve Fuller on Naturalism This episode of ID the Future features Casey Luskin's third and final interview with Dr. Steve Fuller, professor of sociology at University of Warwick. Here Fuller discusses his role as an expert witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, where he rebutted the claim that science is committed to naturalism. Fuller shares how his interest in intelligent design grew out of his research as a historian and philosopher of science into the "demarcation problem" � what is the difference between sc ... 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 Expelled in England: Steve Fuller Shares View on Education Director�s Resignation On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin is joined by Dr. Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Dr. Fuller shares his perspective on the recent forced resignation of the former Director of Education at the Royal Society, Michael Reiss. Reiss is an ordained Anglican Priest, has a doctorate in biology, is currently a professor of science education at the Institute of Education at the University of London, and is widely regarde ... 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 2 On this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin continues an interview with 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 because he committed a thought crime by doubting Dar ... 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 Argument for Design in Cosmology On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Research Director Bruce Gordon speaks with Casey Luskin about the evidence for cosmic fine-tuning. With this technical discussion, Dr. Gordon explains some of theoretical and mathematical problems with attempts to dodge the evidence for cosmic fine-tuning such as the �multiverse� hypothesis and string theory. Dr. Gordon explains that, in the end, these objections to cosmic design amount to thinly veiled materialist philosophy that are rife with logica ... 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 Modeling Evolution with Stylus: Part Two In this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin is joined again by Brendan Dixon, a programmer with the Biologic Institute who recently coauthored a paper on his co-developed program, Stylus. Dixon continues the two-part interview by sharing how Stylus was developed, what the authors hope is accomplished by using the program, and where others can take a look at the code itself to understand and see what the authors have done. Listen as Dixon further explains how Stylus can help us bet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modeling Evolution with Stylus In this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin is joined by Brendan Dixon, a programmer with the Biologic Institute who recently coauthored a paper on his co-developed program, Stylus. Dixon explains that Stylus is a computer program that is designed to simulate evolutionary processes in proteins. It tests and applies the principles of evolution to determine what evolution can yield, what problems it can solve, and to determine what evolution can and cannot do. Using digital organi ... 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 William Dembski on the Origin of Life, Early Church Fathers, and Understanding ID On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews leading intelligent design theorist and CSC Senior Fellow William Dembski. A mathematician and philosopher, Dr. Dembski is also a prolific writer with 3 books forthcoming this year: �Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language, a user-friendly take on ID written with students in mind. �The Patristic Understanding of Creation: An Anthology of Writings from the Church Fathers on Creation and Design ... 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 The Mystery of Life's Origin: An Interview with Dr. Charles Thaxton, Part Two This episode of ID the Future features part two of an interview with Dr. Charles Thaxton, one of the first intelligent design scientists in the modern ID movement. Critics of intelligent design often try to frame ID as a political response to court rulings striking down the teaching of creationism. Today origin of life theorist and chemist Charles Thaxton tells the true history of intelligent design as a modern scientific movement fueled by new discoveries and critical examination of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neo-Darwinism's Homology Problem On this episode of ID The Future we feature a short clip about homology -- the idea that there is structural identity and similarity of parts in distinct species such as the pentadactyl plan of the human hand, the wing of a bird, and the flipper of a seal. Scientists such as David Berlinski, Paul Nelson and Stephen Meyer argue that Neo-Darwinism explains some of the facts of homology but leaves many significant anomalies unexplained. Want to know more about homology? Go here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mystery of Life's Origin: An Interview with Dr. Charles Thaxton, Part One This episode of ID the Future features part one of an interview by Casey Luskin with CSC Fellow Charles Thaxton, co-author of The Mystery of Life's Origin (1984), a foundational work for the intelligent design movement. Listen in as Dr. Thaxton takes us back to the first stirrings of the modern intelligent design movement and discusses the chemical challenge to naturalistic origin of life theories. Charles Thaxton is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligent Design Goes to Vegas This episode of ID the Future features remarks by Stephen Meyer at Freedomfest conference in Las Vegas. What do intelligent design, evolution, information and purple people eaters all have in common? Well, they all took front stage at Freedomfest in Las Vegas last week when ID proponents Stephen Meyer and George Gilder squared off against Darwinists Michael Shermer and Ronald Bailey in debating whether there is scientific evidence for intelligent design in nature. Listen i ... 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 Another Look at The Devil�s Delusion In this episode of IDTF CSC�s Logan Gage takes another look at David Berlinski�s The Devil�s Delusion. Gage reviews the book and examines how Berlinski masterfully takes apart the arrogant claims of the new atheists and then calls capital �S� Science --which has supposedly proven there is no God-- back to earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Jefferson and 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 In ... 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 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 Guillermo Gonzalez Interview On this episode of ID the Future, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez joins Casey Luskin for an interview, discussing the Copernican Principle and his latest research on extrasolar planets. Is our place in the universe special or purposeful? Listen in as Dr. Gonzalez answers that question and shares his future research plans. 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 David DeWolf on the Louisiana Academic Freedom Bill On this episode of ID the Future, Robert Crowther interviews Discovery Institute senior fellow David DeWolf, a leading expert on the legalities of teaching evolution who helped shape the sample academic freedom legislation available at www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com. Dr. DeWolf explains the idea behind the academic freedom bill currently moving forward in Louisiana and what it means to teach the controversy over evolution. Should teachers have the freedom to treat Darwinism as an open an ... 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 Science or Politics: A Look at the AAAS Statement on Expelled On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines how the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has attacked Expelled, getting involved in movie criticism and religion promotion. With example after example, Luskin shows how the AAAS has admitted then denied intolerance towards scientists who dissent from Darwinism, prompting the question: is this about science or is it about politics? Listen in and judge for yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Louisiana, Circadian Rhythms, and Darwin in Biology: An Interview with Biology Professor Wade Warren On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports from Baton Rouge, LA, with Louisiana College professor of biology Wade Warren, who recently testified in favor of the Louisiana Academic Freedom bill. Dr. Warren discusses his research on circadian rhythms and his skepticism of Darwin as a professional biologist, explaining why he supports academic freedom for teachers and sharing his own story of what happened when he tried to question Darwin as a graduate student. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testifying Against Academic Freedom in Louisiana On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his review of the recent academic freedom bill hearings in Louisiana. Of particular interest this time is Dr. Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy with an undeniable distaste for anything critical of Darwinism, who, in her testimony, demonstrated a deep disdain for the Discovery Institute and its insidious conspiracy to undermine American science education. Too bad, as Luskin puts it, her claims are �exceedingly and demonstrab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testifying for Academic Freedom in Louisiana On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin gives his account of the hearings in Louisiana last week, where a bill supporting the rights of teachers to teach the controversy passed unanimously out of the House Committee on Education. Listen in as professional biologists, legal experts, and educators weigh in on the need to protect academic freedom in the debate over evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Caroline Crocker on Academic Freedom and Dissent From Darwinism On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin reports from Baton Rouge, LA with Dr. Caroline Crocker, who recently testified in favor of academic freedom before the House Education Committee. Listen as Dr. Crocker shares why she thinks evolution academic freedom bill's like the one proposed in Louisiana and other states is so important for scientists who are pressured to "toe the line" on evolution, and for protecting free scientific inquiry. 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 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: Part 2 On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Benjamin Wiker continues the discussion begun in the last podcast. Continuing through his survey of his new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, Dr. Wiker sets his sights on Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and its clear connections to the ideologies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, and Margaret Sanger. Spotlighting Darwin's own words in context, Wiker demonstrates how the repr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10 Books That Screwed up the World: Part 1 On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Benjamin Wiker discusses his new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help. In this first of a two-part series, Wiker starts his skim through the book's list of the ten philosophical works most responsible for cultural decay. Those on the docket today are Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the two philosophers, according to Wiker, whose irresponsible inversions of morality have serv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Lab Explores New Intelligent Design Research On this Episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith reports on the CSC-supported, independent research facility, Biologic Institute. Headed by Dr. Douglas Axe, Biologic's purpose is to scientifically put the claims of Neo-Darwinian evolution and intelligent design to the test in a laboratory setting. Work is already well under way, with Discovery Institute Fellows conducting biological studies to test each theory's assumptions from an unapologetically ID frame of reference. This should prove t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Freedom Bills Spread On this episode of ID The Future, Anika Smith reports on the nationwide movement in support of academic freedom with updates on legislation currently being considered in five U.S. states that will allow teachers room to teach the controversy surrounding evolutionary theory. With a bill quickly gaining ground in Michigan this week, continued vehemence for and against the film Expelled: No Intelligence allowed, and a growing list of Academic Freedom Petition supporters, the movement has cle ... 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 Be a Real Skeptic: Casey Luskin Rebuts Michael Shermer On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin responds systematically to Michael Shermer's recent critique of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Shermer, founder of The Skeptic Society and editor of Skeptic magazine, denies the film's claims that scientists Richard Sternberg and Guillermo Gonzalez were unfairly persecuted for their support of intelligent design. After a careful review of the documented facts, Luskin proves the accuracy of the film and concludes that Shermer ought to try ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. David Berlinski Gets Expelled On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. David Berlinski shares with Casey Luskin about his star turn in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and the controversy surrounding the film, which opens today. Listen in as Dr. Berlinski explains the connection between Darwin and Hitler and his predictions for evolutionary biology, and be sure to go see him this weekend in Ben Stein's Expelled. 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 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Train Young Scientists and Scholars On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith reports on Discovery Institute's newly expanded summer seminars on intelligent design. In 2007, the Discovery Institute�s Center for Science & Culture launched its Summer Seminar on intelligent design � an intensive mentoring program for college students to gain exposure to the science of intelligent design first hand from researchers and scientists. The 2008 summer seminars on intelligent design will cultivate new leaders in the intelligent d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FreeGonzalez.com and Academic Freedom for Guillermo Gonzalez On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Iowa State University alumnus Dave Eaton on FreeGonzalez.com, a new organization created by ISU alumni concerned about supporting renowned astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, who was recently denied tenure at ISU. Dave Eaton explains how FreeGonzalez.com came about and why it�s necessary to support scientists such as Dr. Gonzalez who have been expelled. FreeGonzalez.com is dedicated to telling the story of Dr. Gonzalez�s struggle ... 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 Darwinism and the War on Traditional Christianity On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells discusses Darwinism's war on traditional Christianity with Casey Luskin. Listen in as Dr. Wells explains how Darwinism became a weapon of materialist philosophy to discredit traditional Christianity. 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 Critical Analysis and the Classroom Why is the science establishment against critical analysis? As Rob Crowther explains in this episode of ID the Future, if students are to learn science, and not dogma, they must be free to analyze the evidence-- both for and against evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Design of Life: What the Evidence of Biological Systems Reveals In 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? In this latest publication, 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 Intelligently Designed Nanotech 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 Nature Spreads the Evolution Word On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a recent editorial by Nature magazine praising the NAS booklet on "Science, Evolution, and Creationism." Luskin argues that Nature's rhetorical and political defense of evolution has increased to the point that it threatens the prestige of science in society and endangering the academic freedom of scientists who dissent from Darwinism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Support Scientists, Teachers and Students -- Sign the Academic Freedom Petition On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther and Casey Luskin discuss the new website Discovery Institute launched in cooperation with Motive Marketing last week, www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com. AcademicFreedomPetition.com is where you can show your support for the rights of teachers and students to learn all about evolution, and to protect the freedom of scientists to research alternative scientific theories such as intelligent design. Supporters of academic freedom can go to www.acade ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Day Lecture: Proselytizing for Darwin's God in the Classroom For years, supporters of Darwin's theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation's science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education have been cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution. Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America, discusses Darwinists late ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Day Lecture: Proselytizing for Darwin's God in the Classroom For years, supporters of Darwin's theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation's science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education have been cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution. Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America, discusses Darwinists late ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salvo Magazine on Intelligent Design On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Bobby Maddex on Salvo Magazine's latest issue, which features a primer on intelligent design. Several luminaries in the ID community contributed to this issue, including Caroline Crocker, Larry Caldwell, Mike Egnor, Casey Luskin, Jay Richards, Denyse O�Leary, William Dembski, and many more. Bobby Maddex is the editor of Salvo Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach Critiques of Darwin in Florida On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Fred Cutting, a member of the Framers' Committee for Florida's new science standards who recently submitted a minority report suggesting that the new standards encourage students to "learn why some scientists give scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution." Mr. Cutting is a retired engineer who recently published an editorial in the The Tallahassee Democrat, "Teach Critiques of Darwin, Too." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes with Expelled Associate Producer On this episode of ID the Future Rob Crowther interviews Expelled Associate Producer Mark Mathis. Mathis was involved with Expelled early on, interviewing many of the scientists in the film. Listen in as he shares his experiences with ID the Future. 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 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 the Dissent from Darwinism list. 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 The History of the NAS Report on Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC program officer Casey Luskin on the history of the National Academy of Sciences report, titled "Science, Evolution, and Creationism." Luskin takes us back to the first two editions of this booklet, tracing the evolution of this document by the NAS's design. 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 list 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 The Top Ten News Stories of 2007, Part 2 On this episode of ID the Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner and Kevin Wirth of the Access Research Network on their Top Ten News Stories of 2007. In this segment, they discuss some of the scientific discoveries of 2007 that debunk common Darwinist myths and the ongoing academic persecution of supporters of intelligent design. See ARN.org for details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Top Ten News Stories of 2007 In this ID the Future Podcast, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner and Kevin Wirth of the Access Research Network discussing their Top Ten News Stories of 2007. In this segment, they discuss some of the scientific discoveries of 2007 that posed challenges to evolution but supported intelligent design. See ARN.org for details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Critical Look at the National Academy of Sciences Report on Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, CSC policy analyst Anika Smith takes a critical look at the National Academy of Sciences report on evolution, published last week. The report, titled "Science, Evolution, and Creationism," manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design, and rehash the same standard Darwinist arguments which have been refuted by critical scientists time and again. For more detailed analysis on the NAS report, visit Evo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God, Science & Presidential Politics CSC senior fellow and author of Darwin Day in America, Dr. John West, reports that to the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee's views about evolution and Mitt Romney's Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God, Science and Presidential Politics According the CSC senior fellow John West author of 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 Texas Darwinists Oppose Critical Thinking On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin explains how Texas Darwinists would rather impose dogmatism on evolution education than adopt an inquiry-based approach to science education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biologist vs. Biologist from PBS's Uncommon Knowledge On this episode of ID The Future we're featuring a short segment from a debate between CSC senior fellow and biologist, Jonathan Wells, and Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook that appeared on PBS on the program, Uncommon Knowledge. In this segment, moderated by Peter Robinson, they discuss whether or not intelligent design is science and what exactly is the definition of science. You can watch or listen to the full debate at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark Darwinian History of Eugenics On this episode of ID the Future, John West takes a look at the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century and how it drew direct inspiration from Darwinian biology and the writings of Charles Darwin himself. The eugenics movement was no fringe effort, but was the view of mainstream science and espoused by those at Harvard, Princeton, and the National Academy of Science. For more, visit the website of Dr. West's new book, Darwin Day in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ISU Tenuregate: It Was Always about ID On this episode of ID the Future, CSC policy analyst Anika Smith looks at the story behind the Guillermo Gonzalez tenure case at Iowa State University. Emails obtained with a public records request by Discovery Institute revealed a concerted effort to force astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez out of ISU for one reason: his support of intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is there a double standardwhen it comes to intelligent design and testability? When ID skeptics object to the arguments of ID proponents that the incredible fine tuning of the universe is evidence for design they often turn to speculating about an infinite number of universes in which ours just happened to win the cosmic lottery and evolve to sustain life. Is that hypothesis testable? Is it science? CSC�s Casey Luskin explores whether or not there is a double standard in the wider scientific community when it comes to intelligent design and testability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Bang vs. The Static Universe: Is It the End of Cosmology? On this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews noted astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez about a recent cosmology article by Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer (Case Western Reserve University, and Vanderbilt University respectively) titled The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology. The paper is inviting a great deal of comment since it deals with the debate over the big bang and the static universe, and says extrapolating forward in time, in the future we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Hiring Practices? On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Dr. West explores how early 20th century Darwinists encouraged employee selection be based on natural selection. He explains how even skin color, nose size and digestive system could help employers understand potential employees moral stature and working capabilities. For more visit the website for Dr. West�s new book Darwin Day in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with National Academy of Sciences Member Philip Skell, Part Three On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews National Academy of Sciences member Phillip Skell on his advice for young scientists who may be Darwin-skeptics. Dr. Skell has been outspoken in his stand for academic freedom and against intolerance. Philip S. Skell is Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skell is a signer of Discovery Institute�s �Dissent from Darwinism� list. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with National Academy of Sciences Member Philip Skell, Part Two On this episode of ID the Future, National Academy of Sciences member Phillip Skell shares his story of becoming a Darwin-skeptic with Casey Luskin, explaining how his experience in antibiotic research and the questions he posed to his colleagues inspired his 2005 article in The Scientist, �Why Do We Invoke Darwin?: Evolutionary theory contributes little to experimental biology.� Philip S. Skell is Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National ... 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 con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Concensus 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 Meet The Materialists: Clarrence Darrow Perhaps the most celebrated defense attorney in the first half of the twentieth century, Clarence Darrow is best known for his role at the Scopes �monkey trial� in the 1920s. But he also was an early champion of the idea that criminals should not be held responsible for their crimes. On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's John West explores Darrow�s worldview of deterministic materialism. For more on Darrow and other materialists be sure to check out West's new book, Darwin Day in America ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PBS, Darwin and Dover: an Interview with Phillip Johnson On this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews Phillip Johnson (Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, emeritus School of Law University of California, Berkeley) author of the bestseller Darwin on Trial, and one of the founders of the modern intelligent design movement. Johnson recently was interviewed for, and will be included in, NOVA�s program about the Dover intelligent design program, �Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.� Johnson weighs in with his thoughts a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Premiere of Intelligentdesign.org The new website launched today, intelligentdesign.org, provides people searching for information about intelligent design (ID) online an easy way to access the many leading ID websites that are out there. On this episode of IDTF, CSC's Robert Crowther explains the need for such a website, and highlights some of its main features. 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 new 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 Who's on Trial? A Look at NOVA's Judgment Day This episode of ID the Future features an interview with Center for Science and Culture's Rob Crowther, who explains the problems with NOVA's new special program "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," a special 2-hour program devoted to the Dover trial on PBS next week. Crowther also explains Discovery Institute's policy on interviews and shares his experience negotiating terms with NOVA's producers. 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 American�s 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 IDTF, 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 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 new 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confronting MIsrepresentative and Deceptive Definitions of Intelligent Design On this episode of IDTF CSC's Casey Luskin looks at common misrepresentations of intelligent design in the political and legal arenas. Comparing the comments from critics to the actual writings of ID proponents it is clear that critics are knowingly misrepresenting intelligent design in order to attack the theory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Science for Kids This episode of ID the Future features 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 many hears doing biochemical research on molecular machines, and is an outspoken proponent of teaching students about both the scientific ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newsweek's Trojan Horse On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how Newsweek columnist Sharon Begley muffles the cosmic design inference and forces her philosophical blinders on her readers. Luskin shows how the evidence for fine-tuning is driving materialists like Begley to make extreme proposals � and to hide the alternative explanations � implicitly admitting that there is something about our universe needing explanation by an external cause. 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 Rebecca Keller: Challenging Ideas Promotes Good Science 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 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 p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Was Justice Denied to FTE during the Kitzmiller Intelligent Design Trial? On this episode of ID The Future we're featuring an interview by CSC public policy officer Casey Luskin with Seth Cooper (himself an attorney and former public policy officer with the CSC) about strange sordid tale of the mistreatment of the Foundation for Thought & Ethics throughout the Dover intelligent design trial. Next month PBS will air a NOVA mockumentary that alleges to tell the true story about the Dover trial. Knowing PBS' past record on the issue of evolution and intelligent de ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banned Item of the Year On this episode of IDTF, Casey Luskin celebrates Banned Books Week by nominating Dr. Marks's Evolutionary Informatics Lab as the Banned Item of the Year. Banned books week is supposed to be a celebration of tolerance and diversity. In that spirit, Luskin discusses the research papers Marks posted on his site before Baylor University shut it down, explaining just what was so controversial that Baylor had to ban it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Darwinism Lead to Moral Relativism? On this special recast episode of ID The Future, CSC senior fellow Dr. John West examines whether or not Darwinian evolution supports a traditional view of morality as is often claimed. In his new book Darwin's Conservatives, Dr. West addresses how Darwin�s theory, contrary to some of its conservative champions, manifestly does not reinforce the teachings of conservatism. According to West, Darwinism promotes moral relativism rather than traditional morality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. David Berlinski on the Council of Europe's Attack on Intelligent Design On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's Casey Luskin interviews senior fellow David Berlinski aobut the Council of Europes recent resolution conflating intelligent design with creationism and denouncing both. The CoE is a non-governmental body in Europe that aims to protect human rights, but its resolutions carry no force of law. Berlinski, a mathematician who lives and works in Paris and has made many scientific critiques of Darwinian evolution, gives an insightful analysis of the resolut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Podcast: Darwin Day in America Today on ID the Future we feature a special video podcast of the trailer for Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, the new book by CSC Senior Fellow John West out this November from ISI Books. With harrowing studies in crime, welfare, education, and medicine, West built the compelling case for how Darwinism has affected views on matters as foundational as morality, free will, and religion. There is a human cost to scientific mat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Dawkins' Information Challenge On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin addresses Richard Dawkins� Information Challenge. When Dawkins was recently asked to explain the origin of genetic information according to Darwinism, he was embarrassingly silent. He later claimed to rebut this question using Shannon information, but Luskin reveals just how inadequate Dawkins� explanation is when it comes to explaining the specified complexity of information. Be sure to read Luskin�s response at Evolution News & Views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Troubling Signs at Baylor University On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith takes a look at an emerging pattern of academic suppression and viewpoint discrimination at Baylor University. Baylor's recent removal of distinguished professor Robert Marks' website is only the most recent example of this trend, which spans from college campuses to government institutions and beyond. For continuing updates on Professor Robert Marks' situation at Baylor University and other academic freedom issues, check out Evolution News an ... 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 Is The Mind Just an Illusion? On this episode of IDTF CSC's Anika Smith interviews science writer Denyse O'Leary about her new book, The Spiritual Brain. In the book O'Leary and her co-author Mario Beaurogard, neuroscientist and Associate Professor at Universit� de Montr�al, explore the question of whether or not the mind is an illusion as materialists believe, or is it more than that? For instance, The Spiritual Brain looks at whether religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinist Urban Myths In this installment 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 Darwinist canard that terms like micro- and macroevolution were made up by Darwin�s critics. For more information on the history ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denyse O'Leary Explores Cultural Differences Today on ID The Future, Denyse O�Leary draws on her experience with cultural issues to trace differences between Canadian and American attitudes toward evolution, the question of origins, and religion. O�Leary also analyzes the European mentality toward the status quo and, more specifically, Darwinism. About Denyse O�Leary Denyse O�Leary is a Toronto-based journalist who has written on science-related topics for many years. She is an avid blogger who contributes to Access Research Network ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denyse O'Leary versus the Darwinbots Today author and journalist Denyse O�Leary talks about the ongoing ID-evolution debate on the internet. O�Leary reveals how she handles so-called �Darwinbots� on herPost-Darwinistblog, relishing the chance to take on her chattering detractors. She also looks at how the debate generates publicity forintelligent design.About Denyse O�LearyDenyse O�Leary is a Toronto-based journalist who has written on science-related topics for many years. She is an avid blogger who contributes to Access Rese ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baylor University Attacks Scientists for Questioning Evolution Today ID The Future examines Baylor University�s decision to take offline theEvolutionary Informatics Laboratorywebsite that had been administered by Dr. Robert Marks, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor. The school�s administration claims there were anonymous complaints linking the lab to intelligent design. The site has since been moved to a third party�s server. For additional information on this situation, read Rob Crowther�s blog post onEvolution ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. John West Reads from Darwin Day in America On this episode of IDTF, Dr. John West reads from the preface and introduction to his forthcoming book,Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science.Darwin Day in Americatells the disturbing story of scientific expertise run amuck, exposing how an ideological interpretation of Darwinian biology and reductionist science have been used to degrade American culture over the past century through their impact on criminal justice, welfare, busines ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Matter: Denyse O'Leary and The Spiritual Brain Today on ID The Future, CSC�s Anika Smith sits down with journalist and blogger Denyse O�Leary to discuss the focus of her new bookThe Spiritual Brain. In this interview, O�Leary grapples with materialist arguments concerning the mind and spirituality. She also explains why materialism is a monistic philosophy and explores the effect this has on its line of reasoning.About Denyse O�LearyDenyse O�Leary is a Toronto-based journalist who has written on science-related topics for many years. Sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nothing Up His Sleeve: Executive Producer Walt Ruloff and Expelled (Part II) ID The Future presents the second installment of a two-part interview with Walt Ruloff, executive producer of the upcoming docudrama Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Today Ruloff explains how interviews were obtained with top Darwinists including Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers, and dispels claims that trickery and deception were used. He also provides an overview of the movie�s website, staff, and future projects. Be sure to visit the Expelled homepage, and stay tuned to IDTF for movie up ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expelling Dogma: Executive Producer Walt Ruloff and Expelled (Part I) Today on ID The Future we catch up with Walt Ruloff, executive producer of the new Hollywood docudrama starring Ben Stein, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Today�s interview is the first of a two-part series about the making of the film. In this installment, Ruloff gives a brief overview of Expelled, explains how he came to spend over two years making the film, talks about intelligent design as a disruptive technology compared to dogmatic Darwinian evolution, and tells how the film will s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogophile: Denyse O'Leary and the Blogosphere ID The Future continues its interview with journalist and author Denyse O�Leary. In this episode, CSC�s Casey Luskin speaks with O�Leary about the nature of the blogosphere, her history as a blogger, and the array of blogs she writes for, including Post-Darwinist and William Dembski�s Uncommon Descent. Stay tuned to ID The Future for additional interviews with Denyse O�Leary. About Denyse O�Leary Denyse O�Leary is a Toronto-based journalist who has written on science-related topics for man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Video Podcast: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed the new film on the ID controversy Premise media has just announced the release of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a new film on the intelligent design controversy starring Ben Stein, due out this February. Expelled takes a fresh look at the debate as Ben Stein interviews the prominent scientists and academics on both sides of the issue, including ardent Darwinists Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, and Eugenie Scott, and design proponents such as Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, and Guillermo Gonzalez. Cutting through the rhe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chance Encounter: Denyse O'Leary and By Design or By Chance In this episode of ID The Future, CSC�s Casey Luskin interviews journalist and author Denyse O�Leary about the Darwin-ID debate, her writing career, and her book By Design or By Chance?: The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe. O�Leary describes how David Berlinski�s 1996 piece The Deniable Darwin first introduced her to the dispute between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution. Her subsequent research and writing on this topic eventually led to her 2004 book By ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Falsifiability and Can ID Be Falsified? CSC's Logan Gage interviews senior fellow Jay Richards about how philosophers of science use demarcation criteria to determine what is or isn't science. One of the most commonly referred to demarcation points is falsifiability. Many scientists see the question of falsifiability as the gold standard in determining whether something is science or not. Richards defines what falsifiability is, why it's important and answers whether or not intelligent design can be falsified and is therefore ... 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, CSC�s Logan Gage interviews 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 by differenti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blasting Biases: Jonathan Rosenblum at the Discovery Institute Today ID The Future presents another excerpt from Jonathan Rosenblum�s "Is Darwinism Kosher?" lecture, delivered at the Discovery Institute on July 26th. In this segment, Rosenblum discusses the ideological biases that permeate the work of many scientists today, and examines their deleterious effects. By embracing neo-Darwinism as the reservoir of knowledge about all things, Rosenblum explains, scientists seek to neutralize any inherent value in human life and quash alternative viewpoints ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Kosher: Jonathan Rosenblum at the Discovery Institute ID The Future continues to feature Jerusalem Post columnist Jonathan Rosenblum, who recently spoke at the Discovery Institute about the relationship between Darwinism, Judaism, and Christianity. In this excerpt from his "Is Darwinism Kosher?" lecture, Rosenblum delves into the Orthodox reaction to Darwinism, then explicates why Judaism and Darwinism are ultimately incompatible. About Jonathan Rosenblum Jonathan Rosenblum is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale Law School. He i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deniable Darwin: Jonathan Rosenblum at the Discovery Institute ID The Future is pleased to feature Jerusalem Post columnist Jonathan Rosenblum, who spoke on July 26th at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. Rosenblum�s lecture, entitled �Is Darwinism Kosher?� investigates the historical and ongoing interplay between Darwinism, Judaism and Christianity. Today�s podcast is an excerpt from Rosenblum�s lecture in which he criticizes Darwinism�s inability to explain the origin of life on the planet, and details other problems with Darwinian theory. About Jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Theory: George Gilder at Bar-Ilan University Today ID The Future highlights George Gilder�s June 12th address to Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Gilder, who is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, 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 Classroom Conundrum: An Interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Part Six) Today ID The Future concludes its six-part series with Dr. Lyle Jensen. In this interview Dr. Jensen explains why schools should present arguments for and against Darwinian evolution. He also talks about his efforts to promote this stance with the Ohio State Board of Education and at Iowa State University, where Guillermo Gonzalez�s tenure denial appeal is underway. About Dr. Lyle Jensen Dr. Jensen is a biochemist and pioneer in the field of x-ray crystallography. The American Crystallogra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Case Closed: Guillermo Dekat Reviews Science's Blind Spot In today�s episode of ID The Future, CSC legal intern Guillermo Dekat reviews Cornelius G. Hunter�s new 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 overview of the other points made ... 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 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 mu ... 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 A Broader Audience: Intelligent Design and Ciencia Alternativa In today�s installment 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 community. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update on Guillermo Gonzalez's Tenure Appeal at Iowa State University In this installment of ID The Future, CSC�s Anika Smith provides an update on astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez�s tenure denial appeal. Iowa State University denied Gonzalez tenure earlier this year, a remarkable decision considering Gonzalez�s sterling academic record and ISU�s high rate of tenure application approvals in 2007. Gonzalez�s first appeal was rejected by ISU President Gregory Geoffroy on May 31st. On June 19th, Gonzalez notified the ISU President�s office that he would make anothe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Question Everything: An Interview with Author Gordy Slack Today on ID The Future, Casey Luskin speaks with Gordy Slack about his new book, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA. Slack also discusses his personal views on intelligent design and the socio-political implications of the ID-evolution debate. Some of Mr. Slack's incorrect claims are refuted in a long-standing response to the "Wedge Document" from the Discovery Institute entitled �The �Wedge Document�: �So What?�." Gor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crystal Clear: An Interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Part Four) This is the fourth installment in a six-part interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen. In today's ID The Future podcast, Dr. Lyle Jensen describes his career in X-ray crystallography and his ground-breaking work in identifying protein structures. Jensen also reminisces about some of the awards and honors he has received for his contributions to science. About Dr. Lyle Jensen Dr. Jensen is a biochemist and pioneer in the field of x-ray crystallography. The American Crystallographic Association recog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debunking Dawkins: Discussing his Edge of Evolution Book Review Today ID The Future examines Richard Dawkins's review of Michael Behe's new book, The Edge of Evolution. Broadcasting from Washington, D.C., CSC's Logan Gage takes aim at the arguments posed by Dawkins in his book review, revealing their shortcomings and inaccuracies. Dawkins's book review originally appeared on July 1st in The New York Times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science and War: An Interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Part Three) This is the third installment in a six-part interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen. In today's podcast, CSC's Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Jensen about his involvement in one of the most important operations of World War II, the Manhattan Project. Jensen explains how he was recruited by the Manhattan Project in 1943, and describes his contributions to the secret program that produced America's first atomic bombs. About Dr. Lyle Jensen Dr. Jensen is a biochemist and pioneer in the field of x-ray cr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genetics Junkies: Exploring Junk DNA On today's episode of ID The Future, CSC's Casey Luskin delves into the hidden value of so-called junk DNA. Luskin explains that some Darwinian evolutionists were quick to dismiss junk DNA as functionless remnants of evolution, criticizing intelligent design proponents for suggesting that there could be an undiscovered purpose for such genes. Junk DNA has since been found to code for important traits, undermining Darwinist charges that ID impedes rather than advances scientific progress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics, Evolution, and the American People Today on ID The Future, Discovery Institute policy analyst Logan Gage examines the quest for an open discussion on evolution in both politics and science. Gage maintains that American political figures can and should encourage a spirit of openness on evolution and other topics in the scientific community. Such openness, Gage concludes, will equip today's students to compete in an increasingly globalized world. Gage's comments first appeared on June 15th on examiner.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legacy of Learning: An Interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Part Two). This is the second episode in a six-part interview with Dr. Jensen. Today, Dr. Jensen reflects on his time at Walla Walla College and UW grad school during the Great Depression and World War II eras. About Dr. Lyle Jensen Dr. Jensen is a biochemist and pioneer in the field of x-ray crystallography. The American Crystallographic Association recognized Jensen�s work in 1983 with the Fankuchen Memorial Award in X-Ray Crystallography, and again honored him in 2000 with the Martin J. Buerger A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Decent Dissent: Seeking an Open Evolution Debate In this installment of ID The Future, Gonzaga Law School professor David K. DeWolf discusses the ongoing battle between Darwinism and intelligent design as it resonates through education, politics, and recent presidential debates. DeWolf argues that, rather than unfairly framing the evolution debate or denying tenure to pro-intelligent design college professors, personal agendas should be dismissed so both sides of the issue can be critically investigated. DeWolf's comments first appear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Discussion of the Montana Law Review's Recent Publication of Articles about the Dover Intelligent Design Ruling On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's Casey Luskin discusses with senior fellow David DeWolf the current issue of the Montana Law Review which features a lively exchange of views about the Kitzmiller v. Dover intelligent design decision. The Kitzmiller decision isn�t wearing well even among legal scholars who are critical of intelligent design, and Irons' article does little to seriously defend Judge Jones' ruling. The lead article on the Dover decision (�Intelligent Design Will Surviv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Dr. Lyle Jensen, Part One This is the first installment of a 6-part series of interviews with Dr. Lyle Jensen, a pioneer in the field of x-ray crystallographer and a biochemist, and a long-time scientific skeptic of Neo-Darwinian theory. Dr. Jensen is Professor (Emeritus) with the Department of Biological Structure and Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, and is also fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Antibiotic Resistance Evidence for Darwinian Evolution? This episode of ID The Future features the audio of a short video segment from the Icons of Evolution curriculum modules DVD. Antibiotic resistance is an example of natural selection acting on random mutation and is often referred to as one of the hallmark pieces of evidence for Darwin�s theory of evolution. Is it truly strong evidence supporting modern evolutionary theory? Biologist Scott Minnich and other biologists think not and explain why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biochemist Michael Behe Stirs the Waters of Controversy at The Edge of Evolution The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinismpublished by Free Press is CSC Senior Fellow Michael Behe�s long-awaited follow up to his 1996 bestseller Darwin�s Black Box. While Darwin�s Black Box was the book that helped launch the intelligent design movement, The Edge of Evolution is certain to be a revelation and a bombshell in its own ways, and is already inviting comment and critique from scientists around the world. Come meet Michael Behe at a special reception and dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Interview with Michael Behe author of The Edge of Evolution THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism published by Free Press is CSC Senior Fellow Michael Behe�s long-awaited follow up to his 1996 bestseller Darwin�s Black Box. While Darwin�s Black Box was the book that helped launch the intelligent design movement, The Edge of Evolution is certain to be a revelation and a bombshell in its own ways, and is already inviting comment and critique from scientists around the world. In The Edge of Evolution Behe delves deeper into ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Failed Predictions and Common Descent: Part V On this episode of ID the Future, Paul Nelson concludes his series on common descent. Nelson and Luskin take a look at a recent paper addressing phylogenies and data which seems to conflict with common descent. Nelson recommends weighing Darwinism�s claims with significant skepticism and moving from public rhetoric into the actual practice of the science. Dr. Nelson illustrates how evolution�s unequivocal, forceful claims give way to much more interesting science where people are struggl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Textbook Promotes Better Teaching of 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 promotes inquiry-based learning, encouraging students to participate in the process of discovery, deliberation, and argument that scientists use to form their theories. For more information, visit the textbook website at www.explore ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Failed Predictions and Common Descent: Part IV This episode of ID the Future features the fourth in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of common descent at the level of the phylogeny of animal groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does it Mean to be Denied Tenure? The Case of ID Scientist Guillermo Gonzalez On this episode ofID The FutureCSC's Casey Luskin interviews Dr. John West about the case of Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, a noted astronomer and professor denied tenure at Iowa State University. Dr. West explains how the situation arose and why this is such an important case for academic freedom. Finally, Dr. West discusses the importance of tenure and that denial of tenure is tantamount to being fired.For more information about Dr. Gonzalez's appeal of his denial of tenureclick here.Action It ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Textbooks Don�t Lie: Haeckel�s Faked Drawings Have Been Used to Promote Evolution On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Casey Luskin discusses false information promoted by filmmaker Randy Olson regarding a 1994 textbook that used Haeckel�s fraudulent embryo drawings to promote evolution. Olson claims the textbook uses the faked drawings to merely discuss �historical perspectives in biology,� but the textbooks don�t lie: this podcast exposes what the textbook really says and how it uses Haeckel�s faked drawings to promote evolution. Olson has even admitted that it is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Truth about Haeckel's Embryos Showtime Networks will air filmmaker Randy Olson�s fanciful evolution film Flock of Dodos this week, apparently not realizing that key parts of the film are so wildly inaccurate that they amount to a hoax. One of the film�s worst errors is its claim that modern biology textbooks have not used illustrations derived from Ernst Haeckel�s fraudulent 19th century embryo drawings as evidence for evolution. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin shares a clip from the film Icons of Evolu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ISU Faculty Admit ID Played Role in Gonzalez Tenure Denial On this episode of ID the Future we take a look at Iowa State University�s decision to deny tenure to astronomer and professor Guillermo Gonzalez, despite the fact that he exceeds his department�s standard of research by 350%. Two faculty members at ISU have admitted that the denial of tenure to Dr. Gonzalez had to do with his support for intelligent design, a clear violation of Dr. Gonzalez�s academic freedom. Listen in and learn more about Guillermo�s research record and how you can hel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Controversy over ISU's Denial of Tenure to ID Scientist Continues to Grow On this episode we provide breaking news and the latest developments in the ongoing controversy over Iowa State University's denial of tenure to noted astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez. ***U.S. Senator Sam Brownback has just issued a statement defending Gonzalez and expressing alarm over the action by ISU. The statement is available on the Brownback campaign website here. ***At the same time ISU denied tenure to Gonzalez, it promoted to full professor his chief persecutor--Hector Avalos, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Failed Predictions and Common Descent: Part III This episode of ID the Future features the third in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of the evidence for common ancestry by examining the single-tree picture of common ancestry and how this picture is affected by the newly discovered diversity of genetic sequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Failed Predictions and Common Descent: Part II This episode of ID the Future features the second in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of the evidence for common ancestry and how the theory is affected by failed predictions. Click here to listen to Part 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Failed Predictions and Common Descent: Part I This episode ofID the Futurefeatures the first of a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent.Casey Luskin of the CSC asks Dr. Nelson a series of illuminating questions: Is intelligent design compatible with common descent? What is his view of common descent, and how is it related to the origin of life? As the theory of common descent does not tell us whether or not the tree of life was designed, there are design theorists on both sides of this debate. Listen in as Dr. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Examining Von Baer's Law On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Fellow Paul Nelson discusses von Baer�s Law and the recent critiques of this evolutionary hypothesis. Von Baer�s Law describes a picture of embryonic development in animals: embryos are most similar at earliest stages; as development proceeds, animals increasingly diverge in their form. This makes sense if evolution is seen as a conservative process that builds on what comes before, but many critics see this as a generalization without support from th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neo-Darwinism's Homology Problem On this episode of ID The Future we feature a short clip about homology -- the idea that there is structural identity and similarity of parts in distinct species such as the pentadactyl plan of the human hand, the wing of a bird, and the flipper of a seal. Scientists such as David Berlinski, Paul Nelson and Stephen Meyer argue that Neo-Darwinism explains some of the facts of homology but leaves many significant anomalies unexplained. Want to know more about homology? Go here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should the"Concensus View of Science" Always Prevail? On this episode of ID The Future CSC associate director Dr. John West explains that when it comes to public policy dissenting viewpoints are critically important. Darwinists are quick to claim that science isn�t democratic and because Darwinism is the dominant theory supported by a majority of scientists students should learn only the evidence that supports it.Dr. West�s comments are taken from �Evolution and Intelligent Design: An Exchange,� a panel at a recent conference sponsored by the ... 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 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. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deadly Medicine: The forgotten history of eugenics On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's Logan Gage points out that only one century ago, eugenics � the attempt to improve the human race through better breeding � was all the rage in the scientific world. And this spring marks the centenary of the world's first forced-sterilization law. According to Gage: One might guess that such a law was passed in Germany, but they'd be wrong. In the spring of 1907, the Indiana General Assembly passed a bill designed to forcibly "prevent procreation of ... 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debating Darwin and Design: What happens when open discussion is allowed On this episode of ID The Future, we take a brief look at what happens when open discussion of intelligent design is allowed. With the controversy over allowing the debate heating up at SMU, ID The Future takes you back to last year's fruitful debate between Darwin vs. Design conference speaker Dr. Stephen Meyer and University of Washington professor Peter Ward. Dr. Meyer explains how teaching the controversy and allowing discussion of intelligent design engages students and promotes bet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Vs. Design Conference Report On this episode of ID The Future we get a report on a recent ID conference in Knoxville, and a preview of the upcoming conference in Dallas. What is intelligent design and what scientific evidence supports it? Why is it so controversial? How does it differ from Darwin�s theory of evolution? Is there a purpose to the universe? What new scientific facts are turning evolutionary theories upside down? These are just some of the intriguing questions addressed at the Darwin Vs. Design conferenc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Positive Case for Intelligent Design On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Casey Luskin talks about a lecture he recently delivered at Boise State University titled �The Positive Case for Intelligent Design.� Here he provides some clips from the lecture explaining the positive case for design while discussing why some Darwinists chose to"abstain�from attending. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asking Hard Questions about Darwinian Evolution On this episode of ID the Future, professor of neurosurgery Michael Egnor shares his experience asking hard questions to prominent Darwinists on their blogs. An experience which began with a simple question to TIME magazine's Michael Lemonick soon showed how the problem with the current debate is that only ID proponents are asking how biological complexity arose. Dr. Egnor's insights into the search for scientific truth challenges Darwinism and those who defend the theory without engaging ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is the evidence for intelligent design from the field of astronomy? In biology one of the main pieces of evidence for intelligent design is the bacterial flagellum. What are some of the main pieces of evidence supporting intelligent design in the field of astronomy? On this episode ofID The Futurewe feature a short clip of astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez explaining that for the past 50 years physicists and astronomers have been exploring the idea of the fine tuning of the constants of nature. Gonzalez points to this fine tuning as one piece of evidence fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why is Intelligent Design such a Dangerous Theory that it has to be Censored? Even as Darwinists at SMU are moving to stifle an intelligent design conference on their campus, this episode of ID The Future features a short clip of an address to the National Press Club by Dr. Jay Richards about academic freedom. As Richards explains, Darwinists are actively working to censor scientist and scholars advocating intelligent design, and are trying to curb their right to freely discuss even just scientific criticisms of Darwinian evolution. There is a growing trend of dogma ... 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 CSC senior fellow and biologist Paul Nelson argues that regardless of court orders banning discussion of intelligent design, given the history and structure of evolutionary theory, philosophical issues related to design in nature will come up in the classroom. 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 logi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life? On this episode of ID The Future CSC Fellow, Dr. Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler asks if Darwinism devalues human life? Some Darwinists deny that Darwinism has any ethical implications at all. In this short clip, Dr. Weikart looks at comments from Darwinists about that animal ancestry of humans and shows how that blurred the distinction between the animal kingdom and humanity, and negates the idea of human exceptionalism. Click here to read the article, Does Darwinism D ... 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, m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist Shows 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 more and more 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 deg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Double-Standards in Scientific Journals This episode of ID the Future features a clip of Discovery senior fellow Paul Nelson speaking at the 2006 ID Under Fire conference on the double-standard of ID in scientific journals. Dr. Nelson tells the story of how critics of intelligent design fault it for being merely a "religious idea," then proceed to respond to the scientific case made by biochemist Michael Behe.The full video of this conference, Intelligent Design Under Fire: Experts Cross-Examine the Top Proponents of Intelligent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Doctor's Journey to Becoming a Darwin Doubter �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 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, 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 Intelligent Design as a Stimulant to Scientific Research On this episode of ID The Future we hear again from Joey Campana, founder of ResearchID.org, as he responds to the claim that intelligent design is a "science stopper." With example after example, Campana shows how ID stimulates further scientific research, opening up new areas for eager scientists to explore, unencumbered by the restraints of Darwinian fundamentalism. Campana cites the current research as proof that intelligent design is anything but a hazard to science. Casey Luskin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Privileged Planet Hypothesis On this episode of ID The Future we�re highlight a short clip of senior fellow Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez at the 2006 Intelligent Design Under Fire conference where he discusses the hypothesis he and co-author Jay Richards laid out in their book The Privileged Planet, which is that The conditions for life in the universe correlate or overlap with the conditions you need to make scientific discoveries. The full video of this conference Intelligent Design Under Fire: Experts Cross-Examine the T ... 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 2006 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 implica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Like Christmas for Humanists On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Anika Smith reports that a new celebration has arrived, one complete with its own symbols, carols, and talismans, and one its organizers hope will �unite a global community.� What is this celebration of science and humanity? Why, Darwin Day, of course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Hoax of Dodos On this episode of ID The Future we expose just one of the many falsehoods in Flock of Dodos. In the film, storyteller Randy Olson tries his best to discredit intelligent design, but he only ends up discrediting himself by showing how far he is willing to stretch the truth to hoax his audience. Flock of Dodos makes a number of false assertions about scientists and institutions researching the theory of intelligent design. The CSC has launched a webpage, www.hoaxofdodos.com, detailing th ... 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 just obviously proof of evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin on Trial: Does the evidence for Darwin's theory stand up to scrutiny? On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Robert Crowther highlights the foundational book, Darwin on Trial, by Philip E. Johnson. Darwin on Trial was responsible for alerting many among the public and in the scientific community to the deficiencies of Darwinism. Johnson, a UC Berkeley law professor and Program Advisor for Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, applies his skills as an analyzer of evidence to ask if Darwin�s theory holds up to scrutiny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinism and Intelligent Design at Sapienza Universit� di Roma On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Casey Luskin talks to Dr. Thomas Woodward, author of Darwin Strikes Back, about a recent debate on Darwinism and Intelligent Design at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientific Research Projects from an Intelligent Design Perspective On this episode of ID The Future we present an interview with Joseph C. Campana, founder of ResearchID.org, a wiki-based website devoted to cataloguing scientific applications of intelligent design. CSC's Casey Luskin talks to Campana about what inspired the website, and how people can get involved to help constructively catalogue intelligent design scientific research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Dogmatic Darwinism A Science Stopper? On this episode ofID The FutureCSC's Robert Crowther examines whether intelligent design is an impediment to scientific progress, and says the answer is an emphaticno.According to Crowther, Darwinists making this claim are mistaken. Such as a recentSky&Telescopeblog post that stated:Intelligent design basically tells us to stop investigating the natural world, because when we hit a brick wall in our knowledge, we can find the answers in god. �and� Intelligent design, on the other hand, sti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwinian Evolution is Being Overhyped as the Cornerstone of the Biological Sciences 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 Do we live on a Privileged Planet? On this episode of ID The Future we have a short clip about the The Privileged Planet. In the book authors Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards suggest Earth was designed for scientific discovery. They introduce a new idea, more than just that the earth is just a rarity in the universe they argue that Earth is ideal for scientific observation. Specifically they critique the Copernican principle, which holds that Earth is not special in its ability to support life. In this clip, Jay Richar ... 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 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 new 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. Feb. 16 Discovery Institute will host a book release party featuring ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of a Darwin Dissenter Part I On this first of a two part 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 th ... 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 on what makes him skeptical Darwinian evolution. Dr. Simmons is the author of the forthcoming Billions of Missing Links (2007) and Discovery Institute will host a book release party for him in its Seattle offices on Feb. 16. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Darwinism Lead to Moral Relativism? On this episode of ID The Future, CSC senior fellow Dr. John West examines whether or not Darwinian evolution supports a traditional view of morality as is often claimed. In his new book Darwin's Conservatives, Dr. West addresses how Darwin’s theory, contrary to some of its conservative champions, manifestly does not reinforce the teachings of conservatism. According to West, Darwinism promotes moral relativism rather than traditional morality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Do People Mean When They Talk About 'Evolution'? On this episode ofID The Futurethe CSC's Robert Crowther looks at the different meanings of the wordevolutionand explains the importance of clearly definingevolutionwhen discussing the subject. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PBS' "Think Tank" Video Explaining the Differences Between intelligent design, Darwinism and creationism  On this episode of ID The Future we are highlighting a second clip from PBS' Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg that features CSC Director Dr. Stephen Meyer explaining the differences between intelligent design, Darwinism and creationism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Define Intelligent Design On this episode of ID The Future CSC director of communications Robert Crowther discusses how to define intelligent design and why so many mainstream definitions of the theory are incorrect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website