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News

May Scientists Consider Unscientific Explanations?

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2025
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Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth.

Video

Intelligent Design as Fuel for Scientific Discovery (2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith)

The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life: Physicist Dr. Brian Miller: Andrew McDiarmid; June 4, 2025; Intelligent Design

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul: Andrew McDiarmid; June 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe: Andrew McDiarmid; May 26, 2025; Intelligent Design

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism: Andrew McDiarmid; May 20, 2025; Intelligent Design

ID the Future

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” Stephen Meyer Responds to Joe Rogan

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 9, 2025
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Do you believe in evolution? That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. But the first steps are clarifying what the word “evolution” actually means and why unguided evolutionary processes are limited in power and scope. Today, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to revisit a segment from Dr. Stephen Meyer's 2023 interview with Joe Rogan. Meyer answers Rogan's probing question comprehensively. Yes, he tells Rogan, he believes in “real evolutionary processes,” but he also believes in the limitation of those evolutionary processes, and he takes several minutes to unpack and explain some of the challenges the standard neo-Darwinian account of life faces today. McDiarmid follows up by summarizing Meyer's response and sharing excerpts from Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt to explain the importance of Meyer's arguments to the debate over evolution.

Examples of Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 7, 2025
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Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft, resulting in a trademark style that sets them apart from others. Can recognizable patterns of thinking also be found in nature's design? On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie, a resident biologist and fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, dives into the microscopic world to explore examples of what he calls recurring design logic in living systems. These recurring themes and logic are widespread in diverse, often unrelated biological systems. On the perspective of intelligent design, they'd be expected. But an unguided evolutionary perspective would have difficulty explaining this compelling line of evidence.

Dis-Inherit the Wind: Film Debunks Hollywood’s Icon of Evolution

_{Fred Foote
July 4, 2025
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On this ID The Future from the vault, host David Boze interviews filmmaker Fred Foote, writer and producer of the feature-length drama Alleged, which seeks to tell the real story behind the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, which pitched Darwinian evolution against belief in God. Through his own research, Foote discovered that Inherit the Wind was "almost exactly wrong" on many crucial points. Foote discusses how his movie strives to present both sides in the famous trial as fairly as possible.

Events

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International Seminar on Intelligent Design

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Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Due to the volatility and uncertainty of international travel, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants and instead offer a third program combining both tracks described …

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Intelligent Design Education Day — Tacoma

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After a successful event in Spokane, we are excited to announce that Intelligent Design Education Day is coming to Tacoma, Washington! The theme — Creepy Crawly Complexity — returns this fall, inviting students to explore the incredible world of “creepy crawlies,” with special presentations and videos on insects and spiders (from the phylum Arthropoda), earthworms (Annelida), and roundworms (Nematoda). While learning about the complexity and diversity of these fascinating creatures, we’ll consider important questions like… Why are creepy crawlies so abundant and diverse? Where did they all come from? What does it take to design and build a “simple” worm? What is the implication of finding unique code in the genome of each type of creepy …

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Video

The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life: Physicist Dr. Brian Miller

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism