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Interview: New Book Advances Skepticism as a Solution to Materialist Ideology: William A. Dembski; June 9, 2025; 25; Faith & Science

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World: Andrew McDiarmid; June 8, 2025; 2; Intelligent Design

Trump’s Budget Bill Cuts Off the Green-Energy Cash Spigot — And It’s About Time: Jonathan Lesser; June 5, 2025; 4; Energy

The Callous Cruelty of Canadian Euthanasia Illustrated: Wesley J. Smith; June 4, 2025; 6; Human Exceptionalism

Lawrence Lepard Predicts “The Big Print”: Nathan Lewis; June 3, 2025; 7; Economics

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It’s Not Just Families Leaving District Public Schools

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 6, 2025
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Many dissatisfied educators and those who have left their schools not only want to provide better learning for students, but they also do not want to be forced to teach things that have nothing to do with academic instruction. Additionally, teachers recognized that they could have control over their professional growth, development, and compensation.

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Ken Peterson Talks with Brandi Kruse About “What Does It Cost?” Documentary

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Texas Higher Education Bill on NTD News: American Center for Transforming Education; June 5, 2025; Education

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul: Andrew McDiarmid; June 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

Keri D. Ingraham Talks All Things Education on The Sam Sorbo Show: American Center for Transforming Education; May 27, 2025; Education

Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe: Andrew McDiarmid; May 26, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 9, 2025}

Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suffering that come to be seen as appropriate reasons to cause death expands continually. Often, this suicide agenda — let’s call it — advances so slowly that, over time, people become acclimated to policies that were once unthinkable. But that has not been the case in Canada, where the government and much of the population enthusiastically embraced what the law euphemistically calls medical assistance in dying, or MAID. As a result, the “slippery slope” can be seen slip sliding away in real time to the unfortunate point that euthanasia is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Indeed, in …

From Operating Room to Chapel: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Faith

_{Michael Egnor
June 5, 2025}

Today, host Dr. Robert J. Marks continues his conversation with neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor about his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. In this segment, Dr. Egnor describes how a crisis involving his infant son’s potential autism led him to have a profound spiritual experience in a hospital chapel, causing him to embrace Christianity despite previously being a committed atheist. The discussion then explores how many of the founding scientists of the modern scientific method, such as Copernicus, Newton, and Kepler, were deeply religious, suggesting there is no inherent conflict between science and faith. Egnor and Marks also examine philosophical arguments for the existence of God made by Thomas Aquinas, as well as the …

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Brian Miller
June 4, 2025}

For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial and lie outside the physical world. Today, physicist Dr. Brian Miller shares his perspective on the cutting-edge, potentially revolutionary research of mathematical biologist Dr. Richard Sternberg on the immaterial aspects of the genome. Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Sternberg’s proposal runs dramatically counter to the conventional physicalist view of the gene. But recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the rich …

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