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Stuart Burgess
February 12, 2026
Intelligent Design
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Ultimate Engineering

Stuart Burgess
February 12, 2026
Intelligent Design
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Who first invented fiber optic cables? Or camera shutters? Or truss structures? Or double wishbone suspensions? Or block-style Roman arches? What about laser beams? As award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess reveals, the original inventor of these and countless other ingenious devices was no human inventor. Instead, the “first to market” was the designing force behind the living world. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
January 22, 2024
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Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

Jonathan McLatchie
January 22, 2024
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In his landmark book Darwin's Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe wrote that "to appreciate complexity, you have to experience it." On today's ID The Future, we conclude a three-part series with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie that dives into the complexity and design of sexual reproduction. In Part 3, Dr. McLatchie explains the design features of erectile function, the ejaculatory reflex, sperm chemotaxis, and the female egg cell. McLatchie reminds listeners how all separate parts work together as an irreducibly complex whole system. Be sure to catch Parts 1 and 2 of this informative series! Read More ›
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The Bradley Center
February 15, 2023
Technology
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Josh Gilder on Engineering Famine

The Bradley Center
February 15, 2023
Technology
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Starting with the premise that any substance can be poisonous depending on the dose, Josh Gilder, founding partner of Reach Global Strategies argues that government policies related to synthetic pesticides, GMOs, and organic farming is reducing years of massive gains in agricultural production and is leading to declining crop yields and malnutrition.

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Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman
November 22, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Your Designed Body

Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman
November 22, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. While you’re going about your daily business, your body stores, retrieves, translates, and manages software for thousands of proteins, switches, setpoints, thresholds, feedback loops, coordinate systems, counters, and timers. It disassembles thousands of different complex molecules, converts them into their building blocks, Read More ›