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Long Necks and Tall Tales: Why Samotherium Isn’t Missing Link
Episode 2179
How did the giraffe get its long neck? It sounds like the beginning of a children’s bedtime story, and it certainly has been that. But it’s also a ma…
17 hours ago
On the Origin of “Tall Blondes”: Correcting the Record on Giraffe Evolution
Episode 2178
We’ve all admired the long, majestic neck of the giraffe, and the question remains: how did the giraffe get its long neck? Is it a product of an evol…
2 days, 18 hours ago
No Thinking Without a Thinker: Dr. Mihretu Guta on Consciousness
Episode 2177
Starting this month, ID The Future listeners will get to enjoy a new episode each month (as well as a bingecast archive episode) from our sister podc…
5 days, 17 hours ago
Bioengineer Stuart Burgess Reads From New Book Ultimate Engineering
Episode 2176
A good way to evaluate scientific theories of origins is to ask what we’d expect to find if the given hypothesis were true and compare that to what w…
1 week ago
Rockets & Wristbones: Optimal Engineering in Biology
Episode 2175
Is life the result of purposeful design or unintended evolutionary accidents? It’s an ongoing debate that’s about to be impacted by new scientific ev…
1 week, 2 days ago
Douglas Axe: Dragonflies, Cookies, and Our Built-In Design Intuition
Episode 2174
This classic ID the Future out of the archive brings in protein scientist Douglas Axe to discuss his contribution to the book, The Comprehensive Guid…
1 week, 6 days ago
Ultimate Engineering: An Interview with Bioengineer Stuart Burgess
Episode 2173
Evolutionary theory predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. But as today’s guest reveals, the latest science has discovered just th…
2 weeks ago
The Accidental Inventor: An Interview with Hal Philipp
Episode 2172
Starting this month, ID The Future listeners will get to enjoy a new episode each month (as well as a bingecast archive episode) from our sister podc…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Survive
Episode 2171
Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? On this classic ID The Futu…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Mind and Soul at the Threshold of Death
Episode 2170
Does the brain explain the mind completely? And what can phenomena like terminal lucidity and near-death experiences reveal about the relationship be…
3 weeks ago