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For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer: David Coppedge; January 23, 2026; 8; Evolution

Be Prepared: Here Are Neanderthal Toolkits: David Klinghoffer; January 23, 2026; 3; Human Origins and Anthropology

How to Save Iran 1-2-3: Nathan Lewis; January 16, 2026; 7; Economics

Homeless Family’s Outrageous Situation Suggests Unique Remedy: Marsha Michaelis; January 15, 2026; 5; Homelessness

Incentives Are Wrong in Education: Keri D. Ingraham; January 12, 2026; 4; Education

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Competition Coming for the SAT, ACT, AP, and International Baccalaureate

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January 21, 2026
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For far too long, K-12 education has been dominated by monopolies — the public education system, state standardized testing, the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, Advanced Placement, and the International Baccalaureate program. The result has been soaring educational costs, declining quality, and a lack of innovation, all to the detriment of students nationwide.

Video

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero: Center on Wealth & Poverty; January 8, 2026; Energy

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Invasion of Judah: The Archaeological Evidence: Stephen C. Meyer; December 12, 2025; Intelligent Design

The Origin of Animal Body Plans: Stephen C. Meyer; December 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

Why Humans Can’t Be Replicated by AI: George Montañez; November 25, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

How to Navigate the Real and Immediate Risks of AI

_{Robert J. Marks II
January 22, 2026}

While the risk of AI becoming smarter than humans and taking over the world is often discussed, it can also distract us from a more pressing matter: the real-world, right-now risks of AI. On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks continues his six-part conversation with Dr. Donald Wunsch about his expert insight into AI. In this segment, Dr. Wunsch discusses some of the real-world risks of AI, including AI-enabled cyber attacks, phishing attacks, cybersecurity, and the potential harms caused by AI’s reinforcement learning algorithms, where AI systems give people more of what they seem to want, even if it’s unhealthy or dangerous. Dr. Wunsch argues that these problems need to be tackled by policymakers, scientists, engineers, and experts from various …

Why Intelligence is Necessary to Explain Nature’s Functional Information

_{William A. Dembski
January 21, 2026}

We already have a well-established law that shows us how order can decrease in a physical system. But is there a law that explains an increase in order? Scientists have been looking for “nature’s missing law” for a while, and while they might be asking the right questions, their training in a bottom-up reductionist framework is leading them to the wrong answers. On this ID The Future, mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski continues a four-part conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid about his work on the law of conservation of information and its implications for theories that attempt to explain the origin of life and the universe. In this segment of the discussion, Dembski characterizes the law of conservation of information not as a positive law that …

Bill Dembski Reveals the Hidden Cost of Information

_{William A. Dembski
January 19, 2026}

Chances are you’re already familiar with specified complexity, one of the mathematical pillars of the theory of intelligent design. There’s another pillar that is much less well known but equally vital: the law of conservation of information. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a four-part conversation with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski. The conversation unpacks Dembski’s work on the law of conservation of information and its implications for scientific theories like Darwinian evolution. In Part 1, Dr. Dembski begins by defining information fundamentally as the narrowing of possibilities, where specifying one outcome excludes others. Using his a simple analogy of location, he explains that identifying a specific place, like the town of …

Events

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Dr. Michael Egnor to Speak at Cornell University on “The Immortal Mind”

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Dr. Michael Egnor, CSC Senior Fellow and Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at Stony Brook University, will speak at Cornell University on the premise of his new book, The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. This event is sponsored by the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at Cornell University and Chesterton House and is both free and open to the public. To RSVP or to learn more, visit the Cornell events page. A message from the organizers: Although classical philosophers and theologians affirmed the existence and immortality of the human soul, modern neuroscientists generally deny that the soul exists or that it is a proper object for scientific study. The scientific evidence, however, suggests that the soul does exist and that …

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

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Homeless Family’s Outrageous Situation Suggests Unique Remedy

Incentives Are Wrong in Education

Competition Coming for the SAT, ACT, AP, and International Baccalaureate

Video

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Invasion of Judah: The Archaeological Evidence

The Origin of Animal Body Plans

Why Humans Can’t Be Replicated by AI