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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 14, 2025}

If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first, but if you give it a little time, you’ll understand how useful it can be to evaluate the evidence for design in the natural world. On this classic ID The Future out of the archive, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie gives us a beginner’s guide to Bayesian thinking and teaches us how it can be used to build a strong cumulative case for intelligent design, as well as how we can use it in our everyday lives. It is one of the most important formulas in all of probability, and it has been central to scientific discovery for the last two centuries. At its heart, Bayes’ theorem, first developed by 18th century English statistician, …

Bridging the Gap Between Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

_{Robert J. Marks II
November 13, 2025}

On this episode of Mind Matters News, hosts Robert J. Marks and Brian Krouse continue their conversation with Dr. Joseph Green on the limitations of cutting-edge neuroscience. In this segment, the focus turns to the philosophical questions involved. As Dr. Green explains, neuroscience is limited in its ability to answer philosophical questions about the nature of the mind and its relationship to the brain. As a result, the materialistic monist view that humans are nothing but their brains is a belief that goes beyond what neuroscience can actually prove. Dr. Green argues that there is room for alternative metaphysical models that posit some immaterial component to the mind, which neuroscience cannot detect or rule out. This is Part 2 of a three-part conversation. Additional …

Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

_{Michael Kent
November 12, 2025}

Here’s an experienced scientist who thinks YOU should have the power to settle the question of design in nature, not the scientific experts. Why? Because the majority of scientific authorities are committed scientific materialists, a view that hinders unbiased scientific inquiry by forbidding explanations outside the material realm. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with recently retired bio-scientist Dr. Michael Kent. In Part 2, Dr. Kent continues to unpack the scientific discoveries of the last century that have changed the debate over design in nature and made materialism an increasingly irrational view of the history of life and the universe. Dr. Kent argues that the evidence for design mounts up in the form of “informational …

Mind Matters

Bridging the Gap Between Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

_{Robert J. Marks and Brian Krouse
November 13, 2025}

How Humility and Curiosity Can Help Neuroscience Mature

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Robert J. Marks
November 6, 2025}

Modern neuroscience has made some truly amazing advances in recent decades. But even though we can record, map, and even manipulate brain activity in ways that once seemed impossible, we still don’t really understand how the brain actually works. This gap in understanding has led to a kind of overconfidence, and sometimes even over-claiming by scientists. So how do we pursue a path of honesty in neuroscience? On today’s episode, hosts Robert J. Marks and Brian Krouse welcome Dr. Joseph Green to the show to make the case that neuroscience is still a young science compared to fields like physics and chemistry, because it lacks the strong theories that can predict and explain what’s going on. The wisest path, argues Green, is for neuroscience to stay humble, honest, and …

Integrating Personal Identity Into Scientific Discovery and Reasoning

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Robert J. Marks
October 30, 2025}

The scientific method has undoubtedly provided great insight into the impersonal mechanics of the world around us throughout human history. However, the scientific method itself is put into practice by very personal human beings. How should our understanding of ourselves and our personal identities interact with what we learn through science? Today, hosts Robert J. Marks and Angus Menuge speak to Jonathan Loose about the chapter he contributed to Minding the Brain. Loose examines the relationship between the scientific method and personal identity. He argues that respect for science should lead us to consider all the evidence, including first-person conscious experience, rather than just third-person observable phenomena. Loose contends that the success of the scientific method has …

ID the Future

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

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Jonathan McLatchie
November 14, 2025}

If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first, but if you give it a little time, you’ll understand how useful it can be to evaluate the evidence for design in the natural world. On this ID The Future, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie gives us a beginner’s guide to Bayesian thinking and teaches us how it can be used to build a strong cumulative case for intelligent design, as well as how we can use it in our everyday lives. Enjoying the podcast? Leave a written review at Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show!

Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

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Michael Kent
November 12, 2025}

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature For You.

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Michael Kent
November 10, 2025}

What you believe about the origin of life and the universe affects everything you do. So it’s crucial that you decide for yourself whether the design that’s evident in nature is the product of a designer or the outcome of a blind, unguided process. Today on ID The Future, retired bioscientist Dr. Michael Kent explains how we can take back important scientific decisions that belong to us and not to a scientific elite largely guided by materialist assumptions. Kent also reviews some of the top evidence for intelligent design, including the revolutionary discoveries that the universe had a beginning and is finely tuned for human life. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode.

Humanize

Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God

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Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller
November 10, 2025}

The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That isn’t science. It is religion, and these days, many have come to believe that never the twain shall meet. But what if the reality of God could be demonstrated scientifically? What evidence would it take? What would be the consequence? French author Olivier Bonnassies has co-authored an internationally bestselling book (400,000 books sold), recently translated into English, that grapples with these questions. In God: The Science, The Evidence, Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore argue that science is in the midst of a “great reversal” in which the supposedly incompatible realms are becoming mutually reinforcing. Bonnassies is a …

Michael Grunwald on How Factory Farms Can Save the Planet

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Michael Grunwald
October 27, 2025}

Mark Twain is generally credited with the quip, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same can’t be said about climate change, which has become one of our most contentious and complicated public policy controversies. It’s also divisive. According to a recent Gallup Poll, sixty-two percent of those polled worry about climate change a great deal or a fair amount. Thirty-eight percent worry about warming just a little or not at all. What to do about it causes further disagreement, even among those very concerned about a warming climate. The question of how to best balance the use of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources takes up most of these debates, an issue for another day. But there are also disagreements about how to …

Michael Egnor M.D. and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
October 14, 2025}

The existence of the human soul is usually described as a matter of faith unprovable by science. But is that true? What if evidence exists that we each do indeed have souls and even, that life continues after death? Whether we have souls and what happens to us after death — obliteration, reincarnation, heaven, hell — is a question about which humans have obsessed for as long as we have records of our existence. Indeed, it may be the ultimate question, for as a suicidal Hamlet laments in Shakespeare’s most immortal soliloquy: To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause… Wesley’s guests on today’s program respond …