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Good Earth: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology

_{David Klinghoffer
May 25, 2022}

That’s a sample of bronzitite at the top of this post. It's like a cosmic wink from the creator.

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The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology

Canceled Science: Eric Hedin; April 26, 2022

Secrets of the Cell, Episode 6: Bacteria: Michael J. Behe; April 21, 2022

The Judeo-Christian Origins of Modern Science: Stephen C. Meyer; April 18, 2022

Origin of Life: Cell Membranes: The Center for Science and Culture; April 4, 2022

ID the Future

Michael Denton: The Miracle of Man Rests on a Primal Blueprint

_{Michael Denton
May 25, 2022}

This ID the Future continues Miracle of Man author Michael Denton’s conversation with host Eric Anderson about his latest book. The focus of this capstone work in his Privileged Species series is, as the subtitle explains, The Fine-Tuning of Nature for Human Existence. Here Denton and Anderson dive deeper into the book’s argument that science has uncovered multiple ensembles of fitness for creatures much like ourselves—land-going, airbreathing, intelligent bipeds capable of controlling fire and developing new technologies. In other words, it’s not just a handful of things about nature that appear fine tuned for our existence. It’s a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness—what Denton sometimes refers to as a “primal Read More ›

Distinguished Glasgow Surgeon David Galloway Dissects Darwinism

_{David Galloway
May 23, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future brings onto the show Scottish physician David Galloway, author of the recent book Design Dissected and former president of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In his conversation with guest host and fellow physician/author Geoffrey Simmons, Galloway describes how he found himself in the evolution/design controversy and eventually presented his doubts about Darwin to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In this first half of a two-part conversation, Galloway and Simmons briefly summarize the content of Design Dissected, and Galloway homes in on one section in particular where he tells the tragic story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century Hungarian physician who pioneered life-saving antiseptic procedures in hospitals, but whose ideas were Read More ›

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards on Recent Discoveries Supporting The Privileged Planet

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
May 20, 2022}

On this ID the Future from the vault, Jay Richards and astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez discuss several discoveries made since 2004 supporting the conclusions of their 2004 book The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.Gonzalez and Richards show how the book’s thesis — that conditions for life and scientific discovery meet on Earth to a fine-tuned degree that strongly points toward design — has been confirmed multiple times.