Best Irreducible Complexity Podcasts (2025)

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Irreducible Complexity

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit the full-size Ark attraction in Northern Kentucky. There are major problems with evolution: it can’t explain the origin of life, multicellular organisms, or morality. Well, here’s another problem: irreducible complexity. In creation we see systems that are essential to life that can’t work without every part b…

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The Biblical-Illiteracy Epidemic

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This is Ken Ham, and our life-size Ark is now open near Cincinnati in Northern Kentucky. Biblical illiteracy is growing in our churches. Only half of Christians can name all four gospels and nearly half think the Golden Rule is one of the Ten Commandments. People simply don’t know what the Bible teaches! This explains, in part, how so many unbiblic…

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Creepy Crawly Complexity: The Intelligent Design of Insects 26:05

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Bugs. Some of them we enjoy more than others! But there’s no denying they’re a part of life. And though they’re small, they’re examples of big engineering and design. Today, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Discovery Institute staffer Kate Kavanaugh to discuss ID Education Days, whole-day experiences hosted by the Center for Science and Culture and g…

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Where Did Cain Get His Wife?

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This is Ken Ham, celebrating fifty years of apologetics ministry defending the truth of God’s Word. Scripture never explicitly tells us where Adam and Eve’s son, Cain, got his wife, but let’s think about it. We know Adam and Eve were the first people, so Cain’s wife had to come from them. And Genesis tells us they had “other sons and daughters.” So…

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Nancy Pearcey: How Darwinism Fueled a Toxic War on Masculinity 35:03

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Today’s ID the Future out of our archive spotlights the book The Toxic War on Masculinity, by author and scholar Nancy Pearcey, professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. In her conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid, Pearcey argues against the current fashion of seeing masculinity as inherently toxic. She traces the tende…

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Do We Need to Find Noah’s Ark?

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to the Ark Encounter attraction in Northern Kentucky. We’ve learned this week it’s not likely Noah’s ark’s still around to find. But we know the Bible’s history’s true even if we never find the remains of the giant ship. And it isn’t even likely such a find would convince many people the Bible’s true. After all, Jesus …

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Will We Ever Find Noah’s Ark?

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This is Ken Ham, the CEO of the ministry behind the Answers Bible Curriculum. This week we’ve examined claims of ark sightings that aren’t very convincing. So will we ever find Noah’s ark? Well, Genesis says the Ark landed “on the mountains of Ararat” and that’s a huge area, which doesn’t help in the search. But the ark might not even be around to …

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Casey Luskin: How the ID Movement Has Flourished Since the Dover Trial 43:07

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Was the modern intelligent design (ID) movement "over after Dover," as many ID critics hoped it would be? Quite the opposite. In the last two decades ID has flourished as a scientific research program and continues to gain momentum in both academia and the public square. On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation wit…

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Have Pieces of the Ark Been Found?

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This is Ken Ham, editor of the popular The Answers Book for Kids series. Over the years, I’ve heard many claims that the remains of Noah’s ark have been found. Once an adventurer claimed he saw a beam from the ark and a dark object under the ice in Turkey. He even brought a piece of the beam back with him. But this wood is only as old as the time o…

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Is That a Rock or the Ark?

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This is Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and Ark Encounter. Various expeditions have claimed to find Noah’s Ark, but has anyone really found this piece of history? Well, satellite images in 2003 showed an ark-shaped object on the side of Mt. Ararat. But geologists concluded it was just a rock outcropping that appears sor…

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Casey Luskin: ID Over After Dover? Not Even Close 33:40

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Over After Dover. That was the hopeful mantra of many critics of intelligent design (ID) after the Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial in 2005. They were hoping a federal judge could issue a decree from on high that would stop the ID movement cold in its tracks and neo-Darwinism could go back to being unquestioned, unchallenged orthodoxy. But was it over af…

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Is the Ark on Mount Ararat?

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This is Ken Ham, an Aussie transplant with a passion for God’s Word and the gospel. Many people have looked for Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat in modern day Turkey. But is this even the right place to look? Well, Genesis says the ark landed “on the mountains of Ararat,” not specifically on Mt. Ararat. Actually, that specific mountain isn’t even a good …

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Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in a Designed World 20:13

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Are we responsible for our choices? What can the laws of nature teach us about morality? On this classic episode of ID The Future from the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes back Dr. Eric Hedin, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University, to conclude a discussion about his two recent articles on suffering, free will, …

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Where’d Morality Come from?

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This is Ken Ham, encouraging the church to start our thinking with God’s Word. We all know certain things like kindness and justice are right and other things like cheating or self-centeredness are wrong. But why? From an evolutionary perspective, morality must have evolved along with us. But how does an immaterial concept evolve in a supposedly na…

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When Engineering Meets Biology: More From Our Scientist Roundtable 39:26

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A Quick Message From Host Andrew McDiarmid: Hey thanks for joining me! Did you know that although ID The Future is free content, it’s not free to produce? If you’re enjoying the interviews, commentaries, and readings you hear on the podcast, would you consider partnering with me to create more new content next year? Support the CSC today to help me…

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An Explosion of Life

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This is Ken Ham, on a mission to call the church back to the authority of God’s Word. There’s a rock layer called the Cambrian where, seemingly out of nowhere, pop fossils from forty major animal groups. It’s an explosion of life and diversity. But where did these lifeforms come from? The fossils in the layer below them are very different so even e…

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Where Did the Information Come from?

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This is Ken Ham, author of Miraculous: the Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis Story. Yesterday we learned life can’t come from non-life. But let’s pretend for a moment it did . . . then what? How does the rest of life come about? The typical answer is “by natural selection and mutations.” But most mutations are either harmful or neutral. A few have som…

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Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body 21:35

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It's easy to be blown away by the examples of engineering prowess in the human body. But it can be challenging to turn that evidence into a robust argument for intelligent design you can share with skeptical friends and colleagues. To help you learn to do that, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a roundtable discussion with not one, not two, not three, b…

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Ignoring a Law of Nature

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This is Ken Ham, CEO of Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, and the Creation Museum. How did life begin? You may’ve heard it happened in a small, warm pond or maybe an undersea vent. Or it began on another planet and life just happened to make it to earth at some point in the distant past. Well, these are interesting stories but they’re nothing but …

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Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World 27:35

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Is natural evil an argument against intelligent design? And is human evil more consistent with naturalism or theism? On this classic ID The Future episode, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Eric Hedin about his article "Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World." First, Dr. Hedin discusses the problem of natural evils like earthquakes, hurricanes, d…

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Was There a Historical Adam?

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This is Ken Ham, heading up the ministry that built a full-size Ark near Cincinnati. Many Christians today are questioning the existence of a historical Adam because of evolutionary ideas. Is this okay? Definitely not! A historical Adam is foundational to the gospel. In the New Testament, Paul says, “The first man Adam” and “as death comes through …

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Avoiding Bad Arguments

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This is Ken Ham, author of the new book on the history of Answers in Genesis, Miraculous! This week, we’ve been looking at why we should teach our kids evolution. One: They’ll run into it eventually and they need a firm foundation in truth. And two: They have to know it to show why it’s wrong! And here’s a third reason: If you don’t know what the o…

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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Laws of Nature 26:05

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On today’s ID The Future, host Brian Miller concludes a two-part conversation with physicist Aaron Zimmer and mathematician Ellie Feder, hosts of the Physics to God podcast, as they critique current explanations for the laws of nature and argue for an intelligent cause of the rules that govern the universe. This half of the conversation tackles the…

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Learning Evolution for Evangelism

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to join us for Christmas at the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. The idea of evolution and millions of years is in direct opposition to what God’s Word teaches. It’s in Scripture that we get the true history of life and the universe. So, does this mean we shouldn’t teach our kids evolution? Well, not exactly. You see…

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Teach Kids Evolution?

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This is Ken Ham, author of the newly updated book The Lie: Evolution and Millions of Years. Evolutionary ideas directly contradict God’s Word. So, should we teach them to our kids? Well, eventually kids will run into evolution—and they need to be prepared with answers. The Bible gives us the true history of the universe, and science confirms what w…

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Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design 23:31

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You might already have heard that the laws that govern our universe are finely tuned to allow for our existence. But beneath the special numbers of the universe lies an even deeper mystery: the laws of nature themselves. On today's ID The Future, join host Brian Miller as he begins a two-part conversation with physicist Aaron Zimmer and mathematici…

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The Origin of Death and Suffering

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This is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on science and the Bible’s reliability. Have you ever been asked, “If there’s a good God, why is there so much death and suffering?” Well, Genesis tells us. God created a perfect world. Then he gave the first man, Adam, a command and told him the penalty for disobedience was death. Adam chose to disobey…

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Thus Saith the Science: C.S. Lewis on the Dangers of Scientism 24:41

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Progress is an appealing idea, but what happens when we do not all desire the same things? On this ID The Future, we mark the 60th anniversary of the death of British writer C. S. Lewis as host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis's prophetic warnings to us about science and scientism. Dr. West explains how scien…

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Intelligently Designed by Aliens?

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This is Ken Ham, a missionary to our evolutionized culture and even the church. Many secularists are very vocal about making sure kids aren’t taught creation. They insist kids must only hear their atheistic version of origins. But they’re okay with teaching intelligent design—if the creator is an alien! Life’s so complex that many evolutionists don…

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Giraffes Turn into Giraffes?

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This is Ken Ham, a missionary to our evolutionized culture and even the church. Until recently, giraffes were considered all one species. But new research shows there are actually four species—and they’re as genetically distinct as polar and grizzly bears. When this became news, headlines proclaimed it as evidence of evolution. But is giraffes turn…

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Get to Know This Mathematician’s Simple, Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design 45:11

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No amount of small, blind, and gradual changes to the steam engine could ever have produced the internal combustion engine. To get to that fundamentally new type of engine, an infusion of new information was required. That analogy can be applied to the origin of biological life too. The spectacular order, complexity, and design we see in life could…

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Two Kinds of Science

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This is Ken Ham, inviting you to visit our full-size Noah’s Ark attraction in Kentucky. Yesterday, we learned that it’s not science vs. religion. It’s one view of the past, based on man’s word, vs. another view of the past, based on God’s Word. And that’s because there are two different kinds of science. Observational science deals with the present…

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Is Science Secular?

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This is Ken Ham, a publisher of the award-winning family magazine Answers. Many evolutionists argue you can’t use the Bible when you’re doing science because that’s religion. Well, then they can’t use their naturalistic ideas either because that’s religion! You see, it’s not science vs. religion. It’s religion vs. religion! All evolutionists reject…

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Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse 41:55

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Failed ideas tend to eventually crumble under the weight of contrary evidence. Is modern evolutionary theory heading for the same fate? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks to biochemist Michael J. Behe about his core arguments for intelligent design and his recent experience sharing them at an Ivy League school. Behe, a professor of…

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Don’t Get Discouraged

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This is Ken Ham, an Aussie transplant with a passion for sharing the truth of God’s Word. It’s easy to get discouraged when we see all the unbiblical, sinful attitudes and actions overwhelming our culture. We should be saddened and even angered by the acceptance and promotion of sins like LGBTQ lifestyles, abortion, violence, and racism. But we sho…

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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism 22:14

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What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, we mark the 60th anniversary of the death of British writer C. S. Lewis as host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis's prophetic warnings to us about science and sc…

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Soft Tissue in Dinosaurs?

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This is Ken Ham, CEO of the apologetics ministry of Answers in Genesis. When people write about us, they usually describe us like this: “a Christian ministry that believes dinosaurs lived alongside humans.” They always mention dinosaurs! In their worldview, there’s no way humans and dinosaurs lived together since dinosaurs are thought to have died …

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The Biblical Answer to Racism

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This is Ken Ham, CEO of the ministry that built a full-size Ark near Cincinnati. A few years ago, a study asked Americans to rank different people groups on an evolutionary scale of “humanness.” Sadly, people actually did this—putting themselves above others. Yes, racism is still alive in the US. But as Christians, we should have nothing whatsoever…

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Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism 32:20

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Did God use evolution to create life? On this ID The Future, we’re sharing the second half of a recent conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin that originally aired on the Truthful Hope podcast. Casey is critiquing theistic evolution, the view that God used evolutionary mechanisms to create life. In today's episode, he continues by next addressing the i…

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Did God Use Evolution to Produce Life? Why Theistic Evolution Fails 30:33

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Some people attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life's origins by combining the two. Theistic evolution is the view that God used evolutionary mechanisms to create life. But does this view stand up to scrutiny? Today, Dr. Casey Luskin critiques this perspective in the first half of a conversation that origin…

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Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide 28:30

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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 thin…

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Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail 48:04

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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 …

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Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature For You. 43:27

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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…

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Why Scientific Materialism is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness 15:50

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Is the world a good place? Is truth relative? Can beauty be defined? On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host David Klinghoffer speaks with Dr. Ann Gauger, Director of Science Communication and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, about her article “The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and…

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Robert Marks Remembers ID and Tech Pioneer Walter Bradley 39:10

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In 1984, three scientists dared to probe the mystery of life's origin by putting the prevailing theories of prebiotic and chemical evolution to the test. One of those men was engineer Walter Bradley. Today, Dr. Robert J. Marks joins host Andrew McDiarmid to share some of his personal anecdotes and professional insights about Dr. Bradley, a scientis…

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Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body 32:28

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Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. These problems involve multiple coordinated, integrated systems that have to come online, not gradually, but all at once and at just the right time and place. Can an evolutionary process explain the development of these systems? You be the judge…

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Frightening Abuses of Science with Wesley J. Smith 37:12

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. They're playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with bioethicist Wesley J. Smith about frightening abu…

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Neil Thomas: “This Darwinism Business, It’s Rubbish, Isn’t It?” 39:06

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For decades, British professor and author Neil Thomas was a card-carrying Darwinist. It wasn't until after he retired from academia that he had the repose to think about things objectively. Then one day, in a scientific flash of inspiration, he came to the conclusion that the standard Darwinian story was "rubbish." In the second half of a conversat…

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Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws & Historical Roots of Darwinism 38:54

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It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on purely scientific grounds. There are other reasons beyond empirical science that gave it broad acceptance and enduring popularity. On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid unpacks those reasons as he begins a conversation with pro…

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Live Not By Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design 20:13

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When one person stands up to lies or oppression, others can become emboldened to do the same. On this classic episode of ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses his article about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet dissident and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, penned the short essay "Live Not By Lies" in 1…