Casey Luskin on the Rising Tide of Intelligent Design Research

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Astronomy

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Any scientific theory for the origin of life and the universe is only as strong as its research program. For intelligent design, this is good news. On today's ID The Future, Dr. Casey Luskin describes the current growth and scientific maturity of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. Luskin describes the progress of ID across three main areas: successful scientific predictions, the unresolved failures of Neo-Darwinism to account for life, and the growth of the ID community as well as scientists outside ID who are looking for alternatives to modern evolutionary proposals. Dr. Luskin compares the growth of the ID research program to a snowball; it started small and faced early setbacks, but it is now rapidly picking up size, speed, and scientific weight as it rolls forward.

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0:46.0	about the future of ID, where ID is going. We have a strong research program. We have students
0:51.2	who are coming up to do ID research and are doing it. So,
0:55.2	for my advantage as sort of the research director at Discovery Institute, I see the future of ID
0:59.7	is looking very bright. And I am very, very excited to see where it goes in the future.
1:05.7	ID, the future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
1:12.6	Well, whether you're new to intelligent design or you've been following the currents of
1:16.9	ID thought for decades, or somewhere in between, you might be wondering, where do things
1:21.9	stand right now?
1:23.3	What headway is intelligent design making in academia or in the public square?
1:28.2	Is the ID research program flourishing?
1:30.8	And where is ID heading in the near future?
1:33.8	Welcome to ID the Future.
1:35.1	I'm Andrew McDermid, your host.
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