Intelligent Design the Future

Are we any closer to Strong AI and the Singularity than we were in 2019? Don't bet on it. On this classic episode of ID the Future from the archive, Andrew McDiarmid catches up with philosopher Jay Richards at the 2019 COSM conference in Seattle. The two discuss the history of George Gilder’s Telecosm conferences and how the first one gave birth to a book Richards edited and contributed to 18 years ago, Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
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Did Charles Darwin settle the question of biological design once and for all? That's certainly the impression given by some of his modern defenders, including Richard Dawkins. But the actual history of Darwin's theory tells a different story about the dominant theory of biological origins and why it fails to explain the complexity and specificity and purpose of life.

On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with author and scholar Neil Thomas. In his books Taking Leave of Darwin and False Messiah, Thomas examines the intellectual influences behind Darwin's theory, the objections raised by his contemporaries, and the larger philosophical assumptions that have shaped modern evolutionary thinking.
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In September 2026, philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer argued in Britain’s Daily Telegraph that discoveries in cosmology and biology are strengthening the case for intelligent design and the God hypothesis. Eminent biologist Richard Dawkins was given a chance to respond, and he did so with a vigorous defense of Darwinism and his 20 year old book The God Delusion. But did Dawkins really respond to Meyer’s arguments? And did Charles Darwin actually demolish the argument from design, as Dawkins insists?

On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes British scholar and professor emeritus Neil Thomas to the podcast to discuss the Telegraph dust-up and respond to Dawkins's claim that Darwin demolished the design argument. In his two books Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design and False Messiah: Darwinism As the God That Failed, Thomas has explained why he walked away from Darwinism and why the theory of natural selection that rose to prominence in the last 150 years is much weaker and less scientific than its champions would have us believe. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.
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Rolex is well-known the world over for crafting high-quality, innovative time-pieces. But did you know they also award funds to people with innovative ideas in science and technology? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, Texan engineer, writer, and self-taught scientist Forrest M. Mims recounts his experience of winning a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1993 for his innovative proposal to track the ozone layer through a worldwide ground-based network that utilized his own homemade ozone instruments. Mims discusses the work that led to the honor, the memorable trip to Switzerland to collect the award, and how the Rolex Award propelled his career in science.
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Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Mind Matters regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin of information, and the things that make us uniquely human, all concepts that are central to the theory of intelligent design. Enjoy today’s offering of Mind Matters News!

When we are asked to point to heaven, we point up. But that’s not where heaven is. That’s outer space. Today on the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks shares a lecture he recently gave in his Baylor University course Multidimensional Signal Analysis entitled “Where is Heaven?” The speculative talk approaches the concept of multiple dimensions from mathematical and theological angles to ask whether heaven might exist in dimensions beyond the ones we can perceive.
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