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Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

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July 14, 2025
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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences.

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

How Evolutionary Thinking Delayed a Nobel Prize Discovery

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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.

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

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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.

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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

Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

How Did the Designer Do It?

Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

"Do You Believe in Evolution?"

Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

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