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Director Eric Esau on Working with Dr. Stephen Meyer, and More

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April 14, 2026
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NASA’s recent Artemis II mission pushed the limits of human possibility with a record-breaking crewed trip to the moon.

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America’s Founders and Intelligent Design: The Center for Science and Culture; March 30, 2026; Intelligent Design

Endowed by Our Creator Trailer: The Center for Science and Culture; March 17, 2026; Intelligent Design

How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; February 2, 2026; Intelligent Design

How Logic Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; January 26, 2026; Intelligent Design

ID the Future

Eric Esau on Directing The Story of Everything

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April 13, 2026
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NASA’s recent Artemis II mission pushed the limits of human possibility with a record-breaking crewed trip to the moon. Movies like Project Hail Mary and Disclosure Day are exploring the intriguing idea of extraterrestrial life. The U.S. government promises to release a trove of UFO data in the near future. It’s a great time to be asking the big questions about the universe! On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Eric Esau to the show to discuss his latest film, The Story of Everything, a cinematic exploration of the scientific evidence for a mind behind the universe. The film brings the arguments of Dr. Stephen Meyer’s book Return of the God Hypothesis to life through stunning footage and cutting-edge animation, as well as engaging interviews with over 20 …

Did First Life Come From Space? Not Likely, Says Astrobiologist

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April 10, 2026
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On today’s classic ID the Future out of the vault, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez and host Casey Luskin discuss the idea of undirected panspermia. Gonzalez explains the basic idea and what the best current evidence says about its plausibility. The occasion is his chapter on panspermia in the anthology The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Undirected panspermia is the idea that the first life on our planet came from outer space, carried by chance processes from a faraway living planet on space dust, asteroids, or comets either from within our solar system, or from another star system to here. The idea of panspermia was inspired by the extreme difficulty of satisfactorily explaining the chance origin of life on planet Earth. Two of the idea’s earliest proponents, Gonzalez notes, were the scientists Lord Kelvin and Svante Arrhenius, each with a different take. Gonzalez argues that our increasing knowledge about the conditions of interstellar space renders the idea of life successfully hitchhiking around trillions of miles and millions of years from a faraway star system to our big blue marble unlikely in the extreme.

Evolving Rights? Darwinism’s Impact on American Life and Government

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April 8, 2026
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The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding creed, reminding us time and again that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But for too long now, science has been misused to overturn the ideas found in our nation’s founding principles. Is there hope for recovering these truths anew? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is joined again by Dr. John West to conclude a discussion about West’s latest book Endowed By Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.

Events

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Darwin vs. Design — An Afternoon with Michael Behe

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Darwin’s Black Box, join biochemist and CSC Senior Fellow Michael Behe as he offers a retrospective and recounts the main points of his seminal book on Saturday, April 18, at the “Darwin vs. Design” seminar hosted by Living Stone Fellowship and Share the Power. A message from the organizers: Throughout history, most people, including most scientists, thought that the intricate mechanisms of life were purposefully designed. The design hypothesis fell out of favor in academia after 1859, the year Charles Darwin instead proposed that life evolved by utterly unguided random variation sifted by natural selection. In the past 75 years, however, much has been learned about the molecular basis of life that was completely unknown in …

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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Center for Science and Culture

News

Director Eric Esau on Working with Dr. Stephen Meyer, and More

Western Medicine’s Utilitarian Drift

The Discovery of the Beginning of All Things

Contest of Cosmic Stories “Isn’t a Fair Fight”

Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis

Doctor’s Diary: Reading the Designer’s Signature

Video

America’s Founders and Intelligent Design

Endowed by Our Creator Trailer

How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God

How Logic Points to God