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Communication Sets Us Apart: Andrew McDiarmid; August 21, 2025; 2; Intelligent Design

Literature in a Materialistic Universe: Peter Biles; August 21, 2025; 4; Cultural Anthropology

Giving Students an On-Ramp to Post-High School Success: Keri D. Ingraham; August 19, 2025; 3; Education

Redefining “Human Health” to Impose International Technocracy: Wesley J. Smith; August 18, 2025; 4; Human Exceptionalism

Fewer Parents Want to Send Their Kids to College: Keri D. Ingraham; August 15, 2025; 2; Education

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California Proposal Further Erodes Parents’ Rights

_{Walter Myers III
August 19, 2025
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California’s Family Preparedness Plan Act (AB 495), a proposed California law triggered by the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, is purportedly intended to provide children with a safety net if their parents or legal guardians become suddenly unavailable due to emergencies such as hospitalization, incarceration, or immigration-related detention. While the bill is promoted as a compassionate and practical response to crisis situations, its underlying structure threatens to undermine core parental rights and expose children to an array of unintended risks if left uncorrected.

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Keri D. Ingraham Talks Modernizing Education on That Kevin Show: American Center for Transforming Education; August 6, 2025; Education

Robert Marbut Defends Trump’s Homeless Executive Order on Chris Cuomo’s Show: Center on Wealth & Poverty; July 28, 2025; Homelessness

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In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

_{Eric Hedin
August 20, 2025}

Meaningful communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. It’s one feature that makes life uniquely different from a vast universe of non-living matter. But where does our ability to communicate come from? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin about the remarkable features that separate living systems from non-life. Effective communication requires three features: expression, reception, and comprehension. Without all three, communication fails. Dr. Hedin argues that communication is an irreducibly complex system, meaning if any one of its three features is removed, the entire system breaks down …

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

_{Eric Hedin
August 18, 2025}

What if life isn’t just a collection of molecules bumping around? What if every living thing, from a single cell to a human being, is doing something much more surprising—processing information and communicating in complex, purposeful ways? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. He’s argued recently that the way living systems handle information—and communicate—is more likely evidence of intelligent design, not blind, undirected processes. In a previous episode, Hedin explains why life is the most unnatural thing in the universe. Here, Hedin adds to this argument by unpacking the first of two …

How Modern Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

_{David Berlinski
August 15, 2025}

On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid rings up author and philosopher David Berlinski in Paris to discuss his book Science After Babel. Berlinski is at his cultivated best as the two discuss everything from the biblical Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern materialistic science, to his friendship with the brilliant and colorful French intellectual Marcel Schützenberger, a world-class mathematician who was self-taught and, as we learn here, came within a hair’s breadth of being swept up in the Chinese Revolution. Berlinski also reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism, challenges that Berlinski says remain unanswered to this day. At the same time, Berlinski gives the devil — here Darwinism …

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