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Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity: Emily Sandico; March 18, 2025; 2; Education

Dismantling the Icons of Evolution: Andrew McDiarmid; March 17, 2025; 2; Evolution

Returning to Our Founding Will Make America Great Again: Scott S. Powell; March 18, 2025; 5; Economics

At Last, the Medical Establishment’s Support for “Gender Affirming Care” Begins to Crack: Wesley J. Smith; March 17, 2025; 5; Human Exceptionalism

How a New “Ethnic Studies” Curriculum Promotes Anti-Semitism in California: Walter Myers III; March 14, 2025; 5; Education

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Microbes Over People?

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March 17, 2025
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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. But NYU bioethicist Jeff Sebo delivers precisely that thesis in his new book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why (W.W. Norton, 192 pp.). Don’t look for a sanctity of human life argument here. Rather, Sebo takes readers on a step-by-step simplified course in moral philosophy.

Video

Wesley J. Smith Talks Human Exceptionalism on Family First New Zealand

Wesley J. Smith Talks Human Exceptionalism on Family First New Zealand: Center on Human Exceptionalism; March 13, 2025; Human Exceptionalism

The Intelligent Design of Life: Brian Miller; March 13, 2025; Intelligent Design

The Debate over Evolution and Intelligent Design Heats Up (w/ Doug Axe): Douglas Axe; March 11, 2025; Intelligent Design

Dr. Robert Marbut and Billy Baldwin Talk Fentanyl Doc with Brian Kilmeade: Center on Wealth & Poverty; March 7, 2025; Homelessness

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Podcast

How Jonathan Wells Dismantled the Icons of Evolution

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March 17, 2025}

On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites Dr. Casey Luskin to share some of his memories of our longtime colleague Dr. Jonathan Wells, who recently passed away at 82 years old. Dr. Wells was one of the first fellows at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. In a career spanning three decades, Wells made significant contributions to our understanding of the limits of evolutionary processes and the evidence for intelligent design. You may be familiar with Dr. Wells’s 2000 book Icons of Evolution, wherein he exposed a range of falsehoods in popular biology textbooks, including the fraudulent Haeckel embryo drawings, Darwin’s famous finches, the fabled peppered moths, and more. These icons encouraged generations of students to adopt an …

Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025}

For those who may not remember, Terri Schiavo was a profoundly cognitively disabled woman who became the subject of a legal and cultural battle that made international headlines. The case became a bitter and protracted conflict between Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband who wanted to pull her feeding tube, and the Schindler family that fought to save their child and sister’s life. In the end, the courts granted Schiavo permission to do as he wanted. It took two weeks for Terri to die. This year marks the 20th anniversary of her death, and it seems a good time to take stock of the meaning and legacy of her case. Wesley’s guest is Terri’s brother, Bobby Schindler. He is president of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network that advocates for the medically vulnerable. …

Guillermo Gonzalez on Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 14, 2025}

On today’s ID the Future out of the archive, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet, begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin by providing a rapid survey of some of the growing evidence that Earth is finely tuned in numerous ways to allow for life. He draws a helpful distinction between local fine tuning and universal fine tuning. And he tells us about the many extra-solar planets astronomers have discovered in recent years and how all that new data continues to undermine the misguided assumption (encouraged by the misnamed “Copernican Principle”) that Earth is just a humdrum planet. Far from it, Gonzalez argues. The conversation highlights Gonzalez’s essay in the open-access anthology Science and Faith in Dialogue. The book presents a …

Events

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Creepy Crawly Complexity — Intelligent Design Education Day

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Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that our annual Intelligent Design Education Day is returning to Spokane, Washington with thanks to our hosts at Great Northern University. This year’s theme — Creepy Crawly Complexity — will explore the incredible world of “creepy crawlies.”

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