Signs of Intelligence: Making the Case for Intelligent Design

Episode 6 June 07, 2006 00:09:36
Signs of Intelligence: Making the Case for Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design the Future
Signs of Intelligence: Making the Case for Intelligent Design

Jun 07 2006 | 00:09:36

/

Show Notes

Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Cutlure, and an originator of intelligent design theory made the case for weighing the theory about how we got here on its scientific merits in an article published earlier this year in the Dallas Morning News. This week you can hear the article read, or you can click here to read the article online.

What is intelligent design?

The theory of intelligent design holds that there are tell-tale features of living systems and the universe that are best explained by an intelligent cause. The theory does not challenge the idea of evolution defined as change over time, or even common ancestry, but it does dispute Darwin's idea that the cause of biological change is wholly blind and undirected. Dr. Meyer's article explores the evidence for design in: the digital information in DNA; the miniature machines, circuits and systems in cells; and biology's big bang, the Cambrian Explosion.

Dr. Meyer concludes that, "contrary to media reports, the theory of intelligent design is not based on ignorance or religion, but instead on recent scientific discoveries and on our uniform experience of cause and effect, the basis of all scientific reasoning. "

For more information about intelligent design, and the debate over how to teach evolution, visit our website at www.discovery.org/csc/.

Other Episodes

Episode 1272

November 20, 2019 00:19:59
Episode Cover

David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature, Pt. 2

On this episode of ID the Future, mathematician, polymath, and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Berlinski concludes a two-part conversation with Jonathan Witt about...

Listen

Episode 231

June 05, 2008 00:18:01
Episode Cover

Louisiana, Circadian Rhythms, and Darwin in Biology: An Interview with Biology Professor Wade Warren

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin reports from Baton Rouge, LA, with Louisiana College professor of biology Wade Warren, who recently...

Listen

Episode 1316

April 29, 2020 00:20:22
Episode Cover

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 1

On this episode of ID the Future, catch the first half of talk political scientist John West recently gave on how Darwinism has poisoned...

Listen