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More to Love about Springtails, Adorable Gymnasts: David Coppedge; January 29, 2026; 7; Intelligent Design

Irreducible Intelligence: Andrew McDiarmid; January 28, 2026; 2; Evolution

Why Governors Are Opting-In to School Choice at Record Speed: Keri D. Ingraham; January 27, 2026; 5; Education

Competition Coming for the SAT, ACT, AP, and International Baccalaureate: Keri D. Ingraham; January 21, 2026; 5; Education

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

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We Need to Save the Hospice Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 29, 2026
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Human Exceptionalism}

Hospice care has become so ubiquitous that most readers probably have some experience of the beneficent services it offers. Both my parents died while in hospice care, and their experiences—as I will relate briefly below—were nothing but exemplary. But now the hospice movement has run into serious trouble.

Video

Stopping the Sweep Didn’t Fix Anything at Seattle’s Ballard Encampment

How Logic Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; January 26, 2026; Intelligent Design

How to Build a Baby: The Center for Science and Culture; January 21, 2026; Intelligent Design

How Common Sense Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; January 19, 2026; Intelligent Design

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

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Podcast

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2026}

What is the ultimate origin of the information that powers life and the universe? For materialists, matter and energy are the fundamental stuff of life, but an even more crucial element is missing from that equation: information. And as our parents likely reminded us, you don’t get anything in this life for free. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his four-part conversation with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski about his work on the law of conservation of information and how it can help us critically evaluate scientific theories of origins. In this concluding segment, Dr. Dembski first explains how specified complexity serves as a reliable marker of intelligence by combining high improbability with recognizable, briefly described patterns. He …

Applying Information Conservation to Biological Origins

_{William A. Dembski
January 26, 2026}

Nothing’s free in life. It’s a sobering reality we all come to realize one way or another. And this important truth also applies to the realm of biology. On today’s ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his four-part discussion with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski. The topic is Dembski’s work on the law of conservation of information, a principle asserting that information within a search process is redistributed from pre-existing sources rather than materializing from nothing. In addition to being used in computer science and physics, the law can also be applied to theories of biological origins to evaluate which theory best comports with the reality that all information comes with a cost, and that cost must be adequately …

Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 23, 2026}

In his landmark book Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe wrote that “to appreciate complexity, you have to experience it.” On today’s ID The Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes a three-part series with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie that dives into the complexity and design of sexual reproduction. In Part 1, Dr. McLatchie explains why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. In Part 2, we explored some of the key components that make sexual reproduction such a successful system in the biological world, and we spent time unpacking why this interconnected system exhibits irreducible complexity. In Part 3, we review more interrelated features of sexual reproduction and explain why they are better explained as products of forethought …

Events

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

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Cornell University, Myron Taylor Hall
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Faith & Science}

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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Colorado
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Intelligent Design}

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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Colorado
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Intelligent Design}

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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