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Testing the Truth: Nancy Pearcey on Worldview and Reality

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Nancy Pearcey
May 27, 2026
On today’s episode of ID The Future, we’re sharing a conversation with author, speaker, and professor Nancy Pearcey that originally aired on the eX-skeptic Podcast. Before Pearcey became one of the leading Christian voices engaging questions about worldview, intelligent design, evolution, and scientific materialism, she walked away from Christianity altogether. In this candid interview, Pearcey reflects on her journey through atheism, relativism, and Eastern spirituality before ultimately rediscovering Christianity as a worldview capable of explaining both reality and human dignity.

Why the Human Body Outperforms the Best Human Engineering

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Stuart Burgess
May 25, 2026
Designing an Olympic bicycle requires the very best materials and lubricants. And the smallest of engineering choices can make the difference between winning and losing the race. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess. This time, the topic is his engineering work as lead transmission designer on the Olympic bikes used by Team Great Britain in the last three summer Olympic Games. Burgess reveals that the human body boasts a level of engineering that far surpasses the best things humans have been able to engineer. This optimal design in living things points to intelligent design instead of an evolutionary origin for life.

The Story of a Self-Taught Maverick Scientist

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Forrest M. Mims III
May 22, 2026
Curiosity can lead to unexpected adventures. For self-taught scientist Forrest Mims, it inspired a successful career in science and technology that continues to this day. On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid reads an exclusive excerpt from Mims’s memoir Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist.

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Created Equal with Dr. Ben Carson

John G. West
May 25, 2026

In conversation with John G. West, renowned surgeon Dr. Ben Carson shares his view that faith and science are not in conflict, and that believing in evolution requires more faith than believing in God as creator.

Tell-Tale Signs of Bogus Science about the Origin of Life

The Center for Science and Culture
May 20, 2026
Long Story Short

Scientific claims about the origin of life are often complex—so how can you tell if they’re right or wrong? Even if you’re not an expert, there are tell-tale signs to identify scientific claims that are dubious. Are the scientists unbiased? Do they exclude possible explanations before the investigation even begins? Do the scientists make assumptions? Are the claims being made reasonable or exaggerated? It turns out origin of life research regularly makes all these mistakes.

Is America a Creedal Nation? The Real Meaning of the Declaration of Independence

John G. West
May 11, 2026

America is unique in being founded on a shared set of ideas — especially the Declaration of Independence — which asserts human equality, natural rights, and government by consent. John G. West argues that the founders grounded these principles in both biblical belief and reason, believing humans to be equal in seven key ways, despite obvious differences.

Intelligent Design

Under Aesthetic Arrest

Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful.

Historical Sciences

Origin of Life

Postcard from North Carolina

Skepticism should be a last resort rather than a starting point. If truth is knowable, we should pursue it as our highest priority.

Evolution

Paleontology

The Prescient Günter Bechly

Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian.

Cosmology

Human Origins

Archaeology

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being.

History of Science

Geology

Life Sciences

Life Sciences

Neuroscience

Medicine

Biology

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Physics

Chemistry

Astronomy

Fine-Tuning

Earth Sciences

Geophysics

Environment

Rare Earth

Planetology

Culture

Human Exceptionalism

Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God.

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Debating the Declaration

Even non-Christian Founders like Benjamin Franklin thought about the evidence for intelligent design. Franklin studied it as part of his private liturgy.

Faith and Science

Science Education

Scientific Freedom

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On the Origin of Our New Name

First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new.

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