ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

How would you explain intelligent design to someone who's just recently begun looking into it?

Hello, I'm Tom Gelson.

Today we hear Casey Luskin, associate director of the

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, doing just that, explaining it to Sam Cleckley,

who's interviewing him on his Live Life in Motion podcast. In this first of two parts, Casey gives a nice overview of where

and when the idea of intelligent design began, how it's developed, and why it has become such a

compelling idea to so many. Casey, man, what's up? Good to meet you. First off, how you doing? How's your day going?

It's been a bit of a crazy day. I was on vacation last week. This is my first day back in the office

after vacation. So you know how that goes? It's like, oh my gosh, it takes a lot of work to go on

vacation, you know? And that's the vacations are great, but you pay for it on either end. So I'm

paying for it right now. That's so true. Did, uh, I don't know where you went on vacation,

but is it one of those vacations where you just overeat and kind of old overindulge the whole

time? Um, hardly actually. Um, I was visiting family down in Southern California, but my cousin and I

and his son went camping

on Catalina Island, and it was pretty primitive. We actually had no water, no bathrooms, no

electricity, and also no shade for about three days. It was super fun, but definitely we were not

eating gourmet. I had like, you know, cans of chili and packets of rice. We had a great

time. We did a lot of fishing, snorkeling and kayaking. Just had an epic time. It was, it was really

cool. Very, very cool. That's, yeah, a little different. I just went on family vacation. Of course,

all we did was eat. So I was like trying to figure out my

eating habits when I get back in Greenville. I've done those two. I've done those two. Yeah, right?

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