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Has Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Propellers"?

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July 17, 2025
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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim.

Video

Intelligent Design as Fuel for Scientific Discovery (2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith): Casey Luskin; July 8, 2025; Intelligent Design

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

ID the Future

A Tale of Two Doctors: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

_{Stephen Iacoboni
July 16, 2025
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On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Stephen Iacoboni, an award-winning cancer researcher and medical oncologist with 40 years of experience, to discuss the undeniable element of purpose in all living things. The conversation dives deep into the question of whether this purpose can be explained purely by the physical world, or if it points to a source beyond nature and science. Dr. Iacoboni shares his unique reconciliation between faith and science, as explored in his latest book, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose. He recounts his personal journey and profound divergence from the "mechanistic consensus" prevalent during his medical school years in the 1960s and 70s, which viewed organisms, including humans, as "biologic machines without souls, products of an unguided process."

How Evolutionary Thinking Delayed a Nobel Prize Discovery

_{Casey Luskin
July 14, 2025
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For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk, a paradigm that long dissuaded researchers from studying these little-understood portions of the genome. But a series of discoveries starting in 2008 has forced a major change in thinking about so-called "junk" DNA. Many examples of function have since been identified for the non-coding regions of DNA, and more are being uncovered each year. On this ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin reports on a pair of American biologists who were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of function in what was previously considered junk DNA.

Walter Bradley on The Mystery of Life’s Origin

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July 11, 2025
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We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute and namesake of the Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. So today, out of our archive, we bring you the first half of Robert J. Marks's 2020 interview with Walter Bradley, co-author of the seminal 1984 intelligent design book The Mystery of Life’s Origin. The book is now available in a revised and expanded edition with updates from multiple contributors discussing the progress (or lack of it) in origins science in the 35 years since the book’s original publication. In this first of two podcasts, Bradley discusses the history of the attempts to explain life’s origin naturalistically, and how the three authors of the 1984 book came together to shake up the world of origin-of-life science. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

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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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News

Has Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Propellers"?

Homeschool High‑School Science Courses

Tour Undermines Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

Walter Bradley on the Origin of Life

Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

Video

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

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