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Discovery Institute — 100 episodes

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How an ID Framework Guides the Search for Habitable Worlds

2

I Helped Build NASA’s Latest Space Telescope. Here’s What It Will Do.

3

The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Then and Now

4

Leasing the Sky: The Technology and Economics of Spectrum Sharing

5

Restoring the Natural Theology Tradition That Fueled Modern Science

6

Sam Brownback on Current Challenges to Religious Freedom

7

Sunlight And Water Are Uniquely Fit to Sustain Life

8

Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real

9

A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory

10

Why Carbon is Finely Tuned for Life

11

Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design

12

Inscrutable Dice and Bean Jars: Answering Objections to Fine-Tuning

13

Mayor Warren Wilson on Environmentalists Caring More About Birds Than the Lives of King Cove Residents

14

Tech Entrepreneur David Copps on Building Real-World AI

15

The Missing 20 Years: What Designer Science Left Out

16

Fact-Checking Designer Science: Casey Luskin on ID History Errors

17

Stephen Meyer & Ben Shapiro Discuss the Origin of Information

18

Priors & Proof: Brian Miller Unpacks the Meyer/Halper Debate

19

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro Talk Intelligent Design

20

Angus Menuge: Powers of the Soul That Are Beyond AI

21

Physicist Robert Sheldon on Wonder, Discovery, and The Story of Everything

22

Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

23

The Real-Life Medicine and Science Behind Oppenheimer’s Demon

24

Science & Suspense: Geoffrey Simmons Talks Oppenheimer’s Demon

25

Why AI and Darwinian Theory Share the Same Computational Limits

26

Race Against the Clock: Geoff Simmons Reads From Oppenheimer’s Demon

27

An Oncologist’s Journey Out of Scientific Atheism

28

Sleeping and Waking, By Design

29

The Biochemical Challenge to Darwinian Evolution Turns 30

30

Michael Behe on Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box

31

Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of Artificial Intelligence

32

The Intelligent Design of Sleep

33

Models of Consciousness: Objections to Integrated Information Theory

34

Enjoy a Reading From the Landmark Book Darwin’s Black Box

35

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

36

Why Aliens Won’t Solve the Origin of Life on Earth

37

Signs of Intelligence: ID, Evolution, and the Search for Alien Life

38

Giving Up Darwin’s “Brilliant and Beautiful Theory”

39

High School Science That Teaches an ID Perspective? Yes, Please!

40

Stephen Meyer & Piers Morgan: The Story of Everything

41

How Cognitive Principles Can Inform Better Technological Design

42

How Modern Science Resolves the Dilemma Over Evolution

43

Creation vs. Evolution: Re-evaluating a Catholic Dilemma

44

As Neo-Darwinism Fails, Vitalism Makes a Comeback

45

Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

46

The Anchor of Reason: Beyond Naturalism and Materialism

47

What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds

48

Beyond the Written Word: AI’s Role in Reaching Oral Cultures

49

Take a Tour of the Cell in an Incredible Shrinking Submarine!

50

Bijan Nemati on the Search for Habitable Planets

51

Beyond DNA: Evidence for Intelligent Design at the Frontier of Biology

52

DNA’s Partner in the Dance of Life

53

The Evaporating Promise of AGI: An Economist’s View

54

Mind Over Models: An Economist’s Take on AI Speculation

55

Stephen Meyer: New Ways to Stream and Share The Story of Everything

56

Still Zero: Why New Fossil Finds Don’t Solve Cambrian Explosion Mystery

57

Stephen C. Meyer on “The Story of Everything”

58

Comedian Evan Sayet on the Failure of the Atheist Origin Myth

59

How Muscle Function Demonstrates Nested Irreducible Complexity

60

The Genius-Level Engineering Solutions in Muscle

61

Dr. Scott Minnich on the Real Science Behind E. coli “Evolution”

62

Donald Wunsch on the Limits of AI and Why It Matters

63

Aliens Would Only Strengthen the Case for Intelligent Design

64

A Microbiologist’s Journey to Intelligent Design

65

Testing the Truth: Nancy Pearcey on Worldview and Reality

66

Why the Human Body Outperforms the Best Human Engineering

67

The Story of a Self-Taught Maverick Scientist

68

Rebutting Multiverses, Meta Laws, and Other Materialist Answers to Fine-Tuning

69

Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to Common Objections

70

Timothy S. Goeglein on Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family

71

Strategic Design: A Fighter Pilot on Military Readiness and Excellence

72

Peace Through Strength: A U.S. Marine Shares His Story

73

How to Restore Sanity to Scientific Debates

74

Reclaiming Common Sense in a Pandemic of Lunacy

75

The Humble Origins of the Big Bang Theory

76

How Changing Your Mind Can Physically Alter Your Brain

77

Change Your Mind, Restructure Your Brain

78

Composing the Cosmos: Scoring The Story of Everything

79

The Real Heroes of the Big Bang Revolution

80

Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

81

Finding God Through Science: Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander

82

Michael Denton: How the Universe is Uniquely Fit for Life

83

Why Neo-Darwinism Can’t Take the Credit for Design of Life

84

Biologists: Cell is Factory Complex of Engineered Design

85

Mirror Neurons, Consciousness, and an Irreducible Self

86

Physicist Brian Miller on The Story of Everything

87

Eric Esau on Directing The Story of Everything

88

Did First Life Come From Space? Not Likely, Says Astrobiologist

89

Evolving Rights? Darwinism’s Impact on American Life and Government

90

How Science Affirms America’s Founding Creed

91

Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

92

Science, God, and Truth: Michael Shermer and Michael Egnor

93

Egnor vs. Shermer: God, Science, and the Search for Truth

94

The Cultural Mythology and Scientific Frailty of Darwinism

95

Kepler’s Pursuit of a Mathematical Cosmology

96

Fossil Feuds and Scientific Secrecy

97

Missing Links or Media Hype? Navigating the Politics of Human Origins

98

Jan Jekielek on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Atrocity

99

What Separates AI From the Qualities of the Human Mind

100

The Low-Confidence Science Propping Up Neo-Darwinian Claims