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The Latest

Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think: Denyse O'Leary; January 28, 2022

“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers: Evolution News; January 28, 2022

Youngkin Rips Off the School Mask Mandate: Debra J. Saunders; January 23, 2022

Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, But Wrong for K-12 Education: Walter Myers III; January 19, 2022

Despite the Known Harm, Schools Shutdown Yet Again: Keri D. Ingraham; January 17, 2022

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Charters are Solid Alternatives to Traditional Public Schools

_{Keri D. Ingraham
January 27, 2022}

House Bills 1591 and 1962 would address the two major weaknesses in Washington’s charter school laws. If passed, more charter schools could be created, and charter public schools would receive funding equal to traditional public schools.

Video

How Did the Universe Begin?: Stephen C. Meyer; December 20, 2021

Aliens, the Multiverse, or God?: Stephen C. Meyer; December 20, 2021

What Is Intelligent Design?: Stephen C. Meyer; December 20, 2021

Are Religion and Science in Conflict?: Stephen C. Meyer; December 20, 2021

Events

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Darwinian Racism Webinar with Author Richard Weikart

_{John Felts
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2022
Online}

According to historians and scientists alike, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Award-winning historian Richard Weikart says otherwise. According to Weikart, Darwinian evolution crucially influenced Hitler and the Nazis. The Nazis zealously propagated evolutionary theory during the Third Reich. Inspired by arguments from both Darwin and early Darwinists, the Nazis viewed the “Nordic race” as superior to other races and set about advancing human evolution by ridding the world of “inferior” races and individuals. As Weikart shows in his new book Darwinian Racism, these ideas circulate today among white nationalists and neo-Nazis, who routinely use Darwinian theory in their propaganda to advance a racist agenda. Darwinian …

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Topoisomerase Webinar with Joe Deweese

_{John Felts
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February
02
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2022
Online}

Topoisomerase II is an extremely important enzyme in your cells that is designed to untangle knots and supercoils in DNA strands that arise during replication and transcription. It does this by grabbing two tangled DNA segments, holding one steady while it breaks the other segment in two, and then passing the first segment through the break. The second segment is then reconnected, and the two DNA segments are released, having been successfully untangled. Without topoisomerases, chromosomes would become an impossible mess, making DNA replication, transcription, and cell duplication impossible. The carefully orchestrated untangling activity of topoisomerase II doesn’t happen by accident. This enzyme is a molecular machine that only works because its amino acid sequence is highly …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

_{The Center for Science and Culture
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2022
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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Design & Designer: The Convergence of Science & Theology

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Philadelphia, PA}

Given enough time, can bacteria mutate into insects by chance? Can random mutations account for the existence of butterflies and whales and platypuses? What about the origin of the universe or the origin of man’s ability to reason? Come and hear scientists and scholars discuss the limitations of chance and the abundant testimonies to design, as they come to realization from physics to proteins.