
Intelligent Design the Future
Hosted by Andrew McDiarmid and Pat Flynn and Jonathan Witt · Discovery Institute
4.4from 962 ratings
- 596
- Episodes
- 288
- Transcribed
- 962
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 46K
- YouTube views
About Intelligent Design the Future
The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design. IDTF is a short podcast providing you with the most current news and views on evolution and ID. IDTF delivers brief interviews with key scientists and scholars developing the theory of ID, as well as insightful commentary from Discovery Institute senior fellows and staff on the scientific, educational and legal aspects of the debate. Episode notes and archives available at idthefuture.com.
- Publisher
- Discovery Institute
- Category
- science · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
288 of 596 episodes have a transcript.

23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design

21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars: Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tech Entrepreneur on People-First AI Innovation in Business
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Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Independent standards of evidence from disconnected directions coming together to yield a cohesive picture. So there's a beauty about the standard model of cosmology, the Lambda CDM model. And there's a reason we take it as kind of the baseline for cosmological explanation. But there are some things that it doesn't explain. Right. So the question of whether there's a beginning there is left open. In fact, it's suggestive of the fact that there was a beginning. It's geodesically incomplete to the past. And what you do with that geodesic incompleteness is an interesting question in and of itself. […]
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- Bruce Gordon
- Brian Miller
- David Copps
- Casey Luskin
- Dr Angus Menuge
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- 45,918
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- 4.4 / 5
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- 76
- Engagement
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Andrew McDiarmid and Pat Flynn and Jonathan Witt host the show. Published by Discovery Institute.
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