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The Latest

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism: Neil Thomas; May 20, 2022

Weikart: In His Own Mind, White Supremacist Gunman Was Only Following the Science: David Klinghoffer; May 20, 2022

AI Will Overtake Humans, If We Let It: Andrew McDiarmid; May 19, 2022

California’s Epic Homeless Nightmare: Debra J. Saunders; May 19, 2022

Suicide Contagion: Wesley J. Smith; May 19, 2022

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What Does Real Compassion for the Homeless Look Like?

_{Steven J. Buri
May 20, 2022}

Discovery Institute’s Fix Homelessness initiative offers a path forward for policymakers, the public, and those who recognize that the failed policies of the past are doomed to fail in the future. Here we focus on the true causes of the crisis. And, importantly, we focus on the inherent dignity of those suffering while offering solutions that help them realize their full potential as human beings.

Video

A Call for Medical Ethics | Wesley J Smith on The Dr. J Show

A Call for Medical Ethics | Wesley J Smith on The Dr. J Show: Wesley J. Smith; May 9, 2022

Reflections on Twenty COSMs: Carver Mead; May 4, 2022

Canceled Science: Eric Hedin; April 26, 2022

Secrets of the Cell, Episode 6: Bacteria: Michael J. Behe; April 21, 2022

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Podcast

Good and Bad Algorithms in the Practice of Medicine

_{Nate
May 20, 2022}

Computers and artificial intelligence are restricted to being algorithmic. If something is non-algorithmic, it is not computable.

Michael Denton: The Miracle of Man Interview

_{Michael Denton
May 18, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Australian biologist and MD Michael Denton to discuss his new book, The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence.

Origin-of-Life Mystery at the University of Tokyo, Pt. 2

_{Brian Miller
May 16, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future is Part 2 of physicist Brian Miller exploring a recent report from the University of Tokyo claiming a big breakthrough in origin-of-life research.

Events

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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Glen Eyrie
Colorado Springs, CO}

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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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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Colorado Springs, CO
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The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare students 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 of the worldview …

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International Seminar on Intelligent Design

_{The Center for Science and Culture
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Dallas, TX
Online Event}

Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Given the restrictions on international travel at the time of writing, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants in the summer of 2022 and to instead offer a third …

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In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

Weikart: In His Own Mind, White Supremacist Gunman Was Only Following the Science

AI Will Overtake Humans, If We Let It

California’s Epic Homeless Nightmare

Suicide Contagion

What Does Real Compassion for the Homeless Look Like?

Video

A Call for Medical Ethics | Wesley J Smith on The Dr. J Show

Reflections on Twenty COSMs

Canceled Science

Secrets of the Cell, Episode 6: Bacteria