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Sep 14, 2026
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[dramatic music] ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Is ID dying out, or is it just warming up? Welcome to ID the Future.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
I'm your host, Andrew McDermott, and today I get to, uh, welcome Dr. Casey Luskin to ID the Future.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
We're gonna have a discussion today about a book called Designer Science that purports to be a comprehensive history of the intelligent design movement.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
And we're gonna talk about whether that is achieved or not with this book.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Casey, welcome.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Yeah.
Casey LuskinGUEST
But the long version is that I manage our research program.
Justin GibbsGUEST
Do you disagree that there's systems in the world? There's
Alex SteinGUEST
intelligent design.
Alex SteinGUEST
Yeah.
Alex SteinGUEST
Intelligent design.
Alex SteinGUEST
I agree with you on intelligent design, but it didn't happen accidentally through survival of the fittest.
Alex SteinGUEST
Sure.
Alex SteinGUEST
Why is
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[upbeat music] ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Welcome to ID the Future.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
I'm your host Andrew McDermott.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Shapiro was extremely well prepared and asked great questions resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging hour-long conversation.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
We've got the first half of it for you today followed by the concluding half in a subsequent episode.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
In this first half of the conversation, Dr. Meyer starts off with the basics including his own scientific background, the scientific pedigree of intelligent design, how ID differs from creationism, and how the theory might be falsified.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
The pair then discuss the different meanings of the word evolution before Dr. Meyer gets into one of Darwin's biggest doubts, the mystery of the missing fossils, and how that relates to an even bigger mystery, the mystery of the origin of biological information.
Andrew McDiarmidHOST
Here's Ben Shapiro now with special guest Dr. Stephen Meyer.
Michael BeheGUEST
I would guess that a third, maybe more, maybe even half of evolutionary biologists think that Darwin's theory is incomplete and that a different theory is called for.
Michael BeheGUEST
I am a proponent of intelligent design.
Michael BeheGUEST
I think that things look designed because they were designed.
Michael BeheGUEST
intelligent direction to make a lot of these complex systems, just like you do in our everyday world.
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Jan JekielekHOST
I mean, absolutely fascinating.
Michael BeheGUEST
Yeah, it was unexpected too.
Jan JekielekHOST
You mentioned that you're a Catholic and you mentioned that you favor intelligent design as a explanation.
Jan JekielekHOST
I think a typical argument that I hear about people who are religious who favor intelligent design is that you have a preconceived notion of a creator and now you're trying to explain that using the best available science and not the other way around.
Dianne EmersonHOST
There are some universities and colleges founded on particularly religious traditions that present alternate viewpoints, including Liberty University, Bob Jones University.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Some institutions associated with young earth creationism or intelligent design may teach critiques of mainstream evolutionary theory alongside or instead of scientific consensus.
Dianne EmersonHOST
However, among mainstream research universities worldwide, including those in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and much of Asia, their acceptance of evolution is the norm in biological sciences.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Critics of Charles Darwin's theory, well, he has had some critics in the early 1900s.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Creationists believe that human beings were directly created by God rather than evolving from a common ancestor with other apes.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Among the best known are Ken Ham and Henry Morris, who argue that the biblical account of creation is historically accurate.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Supporters of intelligent design accept that living things can change over time, but argue that some biological systems are too complex to have arisen through unguided evolutionary processes alone.
Dianne EmersonHOST
Some philosophers argue that Darwinian evolution does not fully explain consciousness, reason, morality, or the existence of objective truth.
John NelsonHOST
I think s- we've, we've already alluded to the way in which some people will take it literally or try to find clues in the Bible, um, predicting science.
John NelsonHOST
I know that some people in the intelligent design movement would point to certain things in science to suggest that, um, maybe life had some kind of intelligent design.
John NelsonHOST
Um, often they will point to an area in your research, Simon, which is the Cambrian explosion.
John NelsonHOST
I was wondering if you could unpack for us, you know, what is the Cambrian explosion, and can it be used in the way that intelligent design advocates use it?
Simon Conway MorrisGUEST
Well, the Cambrian explosion is just part and parcel of the study of evolution.
Simon Conway MorrisGUEST
Um, and, uh, in a nutshell, and I should also confess that I've not worked on that area very closely for some years now, I've been diverted into other interests, um, it's an interval of Earth history roughly putting, let us say, 600 million years ago to 500 million years ago.
Simon Conway MorrisGUEST
And for a long period of time, it wasn't, therefore these animals don't evolve.
Simon Conway MorrisGUEST
When conditions become propitious, then the animals start to evolve.
Jonathan WittHOST
It-- And so that's where my thought went, one thought.
Jonathan WittHOST
The other thing is, uh, I've always been interested in intelligent design also, and so I just kinda wondered if I could meld these two together, and, um, it...
Jonathan WittHOST
I think I found a way to do that.
Jonathan WittHOST
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ID: The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
Jonathan WittHOST
Welcome to ID: The future.
Jonathan WittHOST
I'm your guest host Jonathan Witt, and I'm very, very pleased today to have on the show, uh, one of Discovery Institute's senior fellows.
Geoffrey SimmonsGUEST
Thank you.
John ZmirakGUEST
It's funk o'clock again.
John ZmirakGUEST
Uh, scienceandculture.com is run by the Discovery Institute, which promotes a research and education on the idea of intelligent design, uh, which is the alternative to atheist materialist Darwinism.
John ZmirakGUEST
Uh, which the worldview that most scientists ec- uncritically accept and impose on students in schools, which says that in order to be a rational human, human being, in order to be an educated person, you have to believe that all life on Earth arose randomly as a result of chemicals interacting in the cosmo- in the, in the co- primordial goop, and that every living creature developed as a result of completely random, unguided muta- che- chemical mutations in the DNA, and that the human race developed entirely randomly by accidental mutations in our d- in our ancestors' DNA, and we are descended from apes, and God played absolutely no role in this.
John ZmirakGUEST
This is what is taught in every public school and, sadly, many Christian schools.
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John ZmirakGUEST
We don't have free will, and when you die, you just rot in the ground.
John ZmirakGUEST
If that is what you're being taught in your science class, it really doesn't matter what you're learning at Sunday school because it all gets multiplied by zero.
John ZmirakGUEST
And that's why I think the work of the Discovery Institute and intelligent design advocates is so important, and that's why I thought that recent movie, Th- The Story of Everything, that we talked about by our friend Stephen Meyer, was so valuable because it took scientists, hardcore lab scientists, who went and showed all the holes in the Darwinist theory, and it's treated as dogma.
John ZmirakGUEST
It's enforced at universities.
George NooryHOST
He now directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.
George NooryHOST
In 2004, Dr. Meyer ignited a firestorm with a controversy with a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution, published his peer-reviewed scientific article, Advancing the Theory of Intelligent Design.
George NooryHOST
He was on with me several years ago as we talked about Signature in the Cell, his latest work, Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design.
George NooryHOST
Stephen, you just keep cutting on the edge there.
George NooryHOST
[laughs] How are you?
Stephen MeyerGUEST
Yeah, there's a-- we've had quite a buzz the last couple days just since the book's been released, but, um, uh, it's, um, a- an exci- an exciting time for me as an author, and also I'm really happy to talk about the thesis with you tonight.
George NooryHOST
Super.
George NooryHOST
Now, when, when you wrote Signature in the Cell, and you were on with me back about, uh, almost four years ago, uh, it, it, it too, I think was electrifying as it looked at intelligent design.
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[upbeat music] ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
Eric AndersonHOST
Welcome to ID the Future.
Eric AndersonHOST
I'm Eric Anderson, and today I'm pleased to be joined by Dr. Richard Weikart, Emeritus Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus, and a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
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