On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a recent editorial by Nature magazine praising the NAS booklet on "Science, Evolution, and Creationism." Luskin argues that Nature's rhetorical and political defense of evolution has increased to the point that it threatens the prestige of science in society and endangering the academic freedom of scientists who dissent from Darwinism.

On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther and Casey Luskin discuss the new website Discovery Institute launched in cooperation with Motive Marketing last week, www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com.

AcademicFreedomPetition.com is where you can show your support for the rights of teachers and students to learn all about evolution, and to protect the freedom of scientists to research alternative scientific theories such as intelligent design. Supporters of academic freedom can go to www.academicfreedompetition.com to sign the Academic Freedom Petition and stand up for science.

For years, supporters of Darwin's theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation's science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education have been cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution. Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America, discusses Darwinists latest efforts to insert religion into the classroom.

For years, supporters of Darwin's theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation's science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education have been cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution. Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America, discusses Darwinists latest efforts to insert religion into the classroom.

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Bobby Maddex on Salvo Magazine's latest issue, which features a primer on intelligent design. Several luminaries in the ID community contributed to this issue, including Caroline Crocker, Larry Caldwell, Mike Egnor, Casey Luskin, Jay Richards, Denyse O’Leary, William Dembski, and many more.

Bobby Maddex is the editor of Salvo Magazine.

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Fred Cutting, a member of the Framers' Committee for Florida's new science standards who recently submitted a minority report suggesting that the new standards encourage students to "learn why some scientists give scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution." Mr. Cutting is a retired engineer who recently published an editorial in the The Tallahassee Democrat, "Teach Critiques of Darwin, Too."

On this episode of ID the Future Rob Crowther interviews Expelled Associate Producer Mark Mathis. Mathis was involved with Expelled early on, interviewing many of the scientists in the film. Listen in as he shares his experiences with ID the Future.

On this episode of ID the Future, Logan Paul Gage reviews Alister McGrath's The Dawkins Delusion, the first book-length critique of Richard Dawkins' infamous The God Delusion. Listen in as Gage explains where McGrath succeeds in writing "with a scholarly care and graciousness," but fails to address Darwinism, assuming instead that theism is compatible with Darwin's theory.

Full text of Gage's review is available here.

On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Luman Wing explains to Casey Luskin about the predictions of an intelligent design perspective in biology. Wing discusses junk-DNA, the irreducible complexity of the blood clotting cascade, and the implications of ID and Darwinism on personalized medicine.

Dr. Luman Wing is a signer of the Dissent from Darwinism list.

In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Dr. Luman Wing, a signer of the Dissent From Darwinism list. Dr. Wing discusses his support for systems biology and the reasons he thinks this approach to biology lends support to the theory of intelligent design.

On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews CSC program officer Casey Luskin on the history of the National Academy of Sciences report, titled "Science, Evolution, and Creationism." Luskin takes us back to the first two editions of this booklet, tracing the evolution of this document by the NAS's design.

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Luman Wing, a signer of the Dissent from Darwinism list who has spent many years working in biotechnology. Dr. Wing recounts his observations as an undergraduate studying under Dr. Dean Kenyon at San Francisco State University at the time that Dr. Kenyon underwent his intellectual de-conversion from Darwinism, and rescinded his textbook promoting the natural chemical origin of life.

On this episode of ID the Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner and Kevin Wirth of the Access Research Network on their Top Ten News Stories of 2007. In this segment, they discuss some of the scientific discoveries of 2007 that debunk common Darwinist myths and the ongoing academic persecution of supporters of intelligent design. See ARN.org for details.

In this ID the Future Podcast, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews Dennis Wagner and Kevin Wirth of the Access Research Network discussing their Top Ten News Stories of 2007. In this segment, they discuss some of the scientific discoveries of 2007 that posed challenges to evolution but supported intelligent design. See ARN.org for details.

On this episode of ID the Future, CSC policy analyst Anika Smith takes a critical look at the National Academy of Sciences report on evolution, published last week. The report, titled "Science, Evolution, and Creationism," manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design, and rehash the same standard Darwinist arguments which have been refuted by critical scientists time and again.

For more detailed analysis on the NAS report, visit Evolution News & Views.

CSC senior fellow and author of Darwin Day in America, Dr. John West, reports that to the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee's views about evolution and Mitt Romney's Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics.

According the CSC senior fellow John West author of Darwin Day in America, to the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee's views about evolution and Mitt Romney's Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics. West looks at this interesting interesection of policy and politics.

On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther interviews Dr. Ralph Seelke, who explains the differences between Micro- and Macro-evolution and shares about his current evolution research.

Ralph Seelke received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in 1981, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mayo Clinic until 1983, and has been an Associate Professor or Professor in the Department of Biology and Earth Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Superior since 1989. An authority on evolution’s capabilities and limitations in producing new functions in bacteria, Prof. Seelke recently co-authored the science textbook Explore Evolution.

On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin explains how Texas Darwinists would rather impose dogmatism on evolution education than adopt an inquiry-based approach to science education.

On this episode of ID The Future we're featuring a short segment from a debate between CSC senior fellow and biologist, Jonathan Wells, and Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook that appeared on PBS on the program, Uncommon Knowledge. In this segment, moderated by Peter Robinson, they discuss whether or not intelligent design is science and what exactly is the definition of science. You can watch or listen to the full debate at the Uncommon Knowledge website.

On this episode of ID the Future, John West takes a look at the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century and how it drew direct inspiration from Darwinian biology and the writings of Charles Darwin himself. The eugenics movement was no fringe effort, but was the view of mainstream science and espoused by those at Harvard, Princeton, and the National Academy of Science.

For more, visit the website of Dr. West's new book, Darwin Day in America.

On this episode of ID the Future, CSC policy analyst Anika Smith looks at the story behind the Guillermo Gonzalez tenure case at Iowa State University.

Emails obtained with a public records request by Discovery Institute revealed a concerted effort to force astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez out of ISU for one reason: his support of intelligent design.

When ID skeptics object to the arguments of ID proponents that the incredible fine tuning of the universe is evidence for design they often turn to speculating about an infinite number of universes in which ours just happened to win the cosmic lottery and evolve to sustain life. Is that hypothesis testable? Is it science? CSC’s Casey Luskin explores whether or not there is a double standard in the wider scientific community when it comes to intelligent design and testability.

On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews noted astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez about a recent cosmology article by Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer (Case Western Reserve University, and Vanderbilt University respectively) titled The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology. The paper is inviting a great deal of comment since it deals with the debate over the big bang and the static universe, and says extrapolating forward in time, in the future we will be incapable of determining the true nature of the universe.

According to Dr. Gonzalez the authors are saying that future observers will mistakenly believe they are living in a static universe since current measurement tools will not be available to them. At some point in the future the measurements we are able to make today will not be able to be made because of natural changes in the universe. This coincides with Gonzales’ Privileged Planet hypothesis which in part says that not only are we in the right place in the universe to make important scientific discoveries, we are also in the right time in the universe.

On this episode of ID The Future CSC's Dr. West explores how early 20th century Darwinists encouraged employee selection be based on natural selection. He explains how even skin color, nose size and digestive system could help employers understand potential employees moral stature and working capabilities. For more visit the website for Dr. West’s new book Darwin Day in America.

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews National Academy of Sciences member Phillip Skell on his advice for young scientists who may be Darwin-skeptics. Dr. Skell has been outspoken in his stand for academic freedom and against intolerance.

Philip S. Skell is Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skell is a signer of Discovery Institute’s “Dissent from Darwinism” list.

On this episode of ID the Future, National Academy of Sciences member Phillip Skell shares his story of becoming a Darwin-skeptic with Casey Luskin, explaining how his experience in antibiotic research and the questions he posed to his colleagues inspired his 2005 article in The Scientist, “Why Do We Invoke Darwin?: Evolutionary theory contributes little to experimental biology.”

Philip S. Skell is Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skell is a signer of Discovery Institute’s “Dissent from Darwinism” list.

In this ID the Future podcast, Casey Luskin interviews Philip S. Skell, Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skell discusses his research, which has included work on reactive intermediates in chemistry, free-atom reactions, and reactions of free carbonium ions.

Dr. Skell is a signer of Discovery Institute’s “Dissent from Darwinism” list, and he is the author of “ Why Do We Invoke Darwin?: Evolutionary theory contributes little to experimental biology.”

Darwinists often point out that Darwin’s theory is supported by a majority of scientists and so only the evidence that supports the theory should be presented to students. On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s John West explains that when it comes to setting public policy, dissenting views on science can be critically important and should be encouraged.

Perhaps the most celebrated defense attorney in the first half of the twentieth century, Clarence Darrow is best known for his role at the Scopes “monkey trial” in the 1920s. But he also was an early champion of the idea that criminals should not be held responsible for their crimes. On this episode of ID The Future, CSC's John West explores Darrow’s worldview of deterministic materialism.

For more on Darrow and other materialists be sure to check out West's new book, Darwin Day in America.

On this episode of ID The Future, CSC’s Casey Luskin interviews Phillip Johnson (Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, emeritus School of Law University of California, Berkeley) author of the bestseller Darwin on Trial, and one of the founders of the modern intelligent design movement.

Johnson recently was interviewed for, and will be included in, NOVA’s program about the Dover intelligent design program, “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” Johnson weighs in with his thoughts about the ruling issued by Judge Jones, about the scientific status of intelligent design, and his views on PBS’ teaching guide about intelligent design and whether or not it is injecting religion into the classroom.

The new website launched today, intelligentdesign.org, provides people searching for information about intelligent design (ID) online an easy way to access the many leading ID websites that are out there. On this episode of IDTF, CSC's Robert Crowther explains the need for such a website, and highlights some of its main features.

On this episode of ID the Future, John West shares from his new book, Darwin Day in America, about Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the New School of Criminal Anthropology. Lombroso and his disciples contended that criminal behavior could be explained largely as a throwback to earlier stages of Darwinian evolution. Listen in as West illustrates the consequences of applying Darwin's theory to criminal justice.