Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Here's an experienced scientist who thinks YOU should have the power to settle the question of design in nature, not the scientific experts. Why? Because the majority of scientific authorities are committed scientific materialists, a view that hinders unbiased scientific inquiry by forbidding explanations outside the material realm. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with recently retired bio-scientist Dr. Michael Kent. In Part 2, Dr. Kent continues to unpack the scientific discoveries of the last century that have changed the debate over design in nature and made materialism an increasingly irrational view of the history of life and the universe. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	For some people, no amount of evidence could ever be enough. But I think that's a small fraction
0:05.2	of the people out there. I think most people are more able to follow the evidence where it leads.
0:15.8	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:23.3	Here's a couple of questions for you. Are you ready to defend the reasons you believe there is
0:28.1	evidence of design and nature in the universe? And are you also ready to explain the arguments
0:33.1	for intelligent design to your friends and associates, maybe your family members.
0:40.7	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:46.2	Today, I get to welcome back Dr. Michael Kent to continue discussing recent discoveries that have changed the debate about design in the universe.
0:50.3	Now, in case you don't know him or didn't catch part one of our conversation yet,
1:12.3	Dr. Kent is a fellow with the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, and he's a recently retired bioccientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, a position he has held for over three decades. He also had an appointment as a staff scientist for 15 years at the Joint Bioenergy Institute. He has published more than 90 scientific papers on a variety of research topics
1:17.9	and chemistry, biophysics, and material sciences. He was an active member of the American
1:23.1	Physical Society, the Biophysical Society, and the American Chemical Society, not to mention the
1:29.1	Society for Industrial Microbiology. Michael, welcome back to the show.
1:34.5	Happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Well, I enjoyed part one of our conversation
1:40.0	where you got to explain a little bit about your background and your career as a research scientist.
1:46.4	Can you touch on just very briefly, for those who didn't get to that yet,
1:51.4	just what got you into this career and some of the highlights?
1:56.4	Sure. I received my bachelor's and PhD degrees in chemical engineering and material
2:04.0	science from the universities of Illinois and Minnesota, respectively, and then spent two years
2:11.3	doing postdoctoral research at the Curie Institute and the University of Paris, studying polymer physics using neutron
2:20.6	and x-ray scattering techniques.
2:22.8	I then took the research position at Sandia National Labs, and during my 32 years there,
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