Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature For You.

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What you believe about the origin of life and the universe affects everything you do. So it's crucial that you decide for yourself whether the design that's evident in nature is the product of a designer or the outcome of a blind, unguided process. Today on ID The Future, retired bioscientist Dr. Michael Kent explains how we can take back important scientific decisions that belong to us and not to a scientific elite largely guided by materialist assumptions. Kent also reviews some of the top evidence for intelligent design, including the revolutionary discoveries that the universe had a beginning and is finely tuned for human life. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode. Source

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0:00.0	And I think most would agree that people should be informed and the decision about design should be in their own hands.
0:08.3	And this is, it's really important because what you believe about the universe, where the universe came from, it affects your entire worldview.
0:21.3	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:28.7	So who gets to decide what science is and which scientific explanations for life are
0:34.6	allowed on the table? The experts who tell us to trust the science, or can we have
0:39.7	that responsibility? Well, welcome to ID of the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott. Today, I welcome
0:45.4	Dr. Michael Kent to the podcast to begin discussing recent discoveries that have changed the debate
0:51.3	about design in the universe. Dr. Kent is a fellow with the Center for Science and Culture
0:56.0	and a recently retired bioccientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque,
1:02.0	a position he has held for over three decades.
1:05.0	He also had an appointment as a staff scientist for 15 years at the Joint Bioenergy Institute. He has published more than 90 scientific
1:12.9	papers on a variety of research topics, including chemistry, biophysics, and material science.
1:19.0	He has been an active member of the American Physical Society, the Biophysical Society,
1:23.8	the American Chemical Society, and the Society for Industrial Microbiology.
1:28.8	Michael, welcome.
1:30.9	Thanks for having me.
1:32.8	Yeah, now this is your first appearance on I Do the Future, so it's great to have you on board here.
1:38.3	Tell us what inspired you to pursue a career in science and maybe some of how you got into the research that you engaged in
1:45.3	and the appointments you held? Well, I always enjoyed math and science in school,
1:51.6	and I went to the University of Illinois to pursue a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering,
1:58.0	and I originally had no intention of getting an advanced degree. But near the end of my time,
2:08.7	I realized I really enjoyed learning, and I didn't want that to end. So I went to graduate school
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