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Michael Keas Debunks Science-Faith Warfare Myth: Evolution News; January 28, 2023; 1

Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?: Peter Biles; January 27, 2023; 4

Breaking the K-12 Education Monopoly: American Center for Transforming Education; January 25, 2023; 3

What Inspired Don Nielsen to Write Every School?: Donald Nielsen; January 24, 2023; 1

Why Did You Visit Colleges of Education? Don Nielsen author of Every School: Donald Nielsen; January 23, 2023; 1

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Religious Freedom is the First Freedom — and You Can Help Save It

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The International Religious Freedom Summit this weekend (January 31-February 1) comes at a moment when people of faith all over the world are under growing pressure.

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Andrew McDiarmid Discusses Gadget Addiction and the Benefits of Thinking in the Digital Age with Eric Metaxas

Breaking the K-12 Education Monopoly: American Center for Transforming Education; January 25, 2023

What Inspired Don Nielsen to Write Every School?: Donald Nielsen; January 24, 2023

Control of Breathing: Howard Glicksman; January 24, 2023

Why Did You Visit Colleges of Education? Don Nielsen author of Every School: Donald Nielsen; January 23, 2023

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Podcast

Dr. Peggy Hartshorn on Heartbeat International, Pregnancy Resource Centers, and Abortion Pill Reversal

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 23, 2023}

A continual criticism of the pro-life movement is that adherents only care about children before they are born. But is that true? The proliferation of Pregnancy Help Centers throughout the country and the many outreach efforts of the pro-life movement to help women and babies after birth testifies to the lie of the accusation. Wesley’s guest today has been immersed in these efforts for decades. Peggy Hartshorn Ph.D. and her husband first volunteered to house pregnant girls in their home in 1975. She is now the Chair of Heartbeat International, an international nonprofit Christian organization with a worldwide network of more than 3,000 pro-life pregnancy help centers that provide comprehensive help to women throughout their pregnancies and after the child is born. The goal of …

Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

_{Steve Laufmann
January 16, 2023}

On today’s ID the Future, Your Designed Body co-author and systems engineer Steve Laufmann continues his conversation with host and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor. In this episode, Laufmann reviews four causal factors involved in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and explains why they lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. To dive deeper into his argument, check out Laufmann’s new book co-authored with physician Howard …

Ways the Brain Can Heal

_{Robert J. Marks II
January 12, 2023}

Robert Marks and Andrew Knox continue their conversation on neurology, epilepsy, and mental illness. In this episode, they focus on the medications and practices that can help restore proper brain function, from antidepressants to forms of surgery to Elon Musk’s potential “Neuralink.” Additional Resources Robert J. Marks at Discovery.org Dr. Andrew Knox at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You by John Burke After by Dr. Bruce Greyson Podcast …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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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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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 on worldview …

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Breaking the K-12 Education Monopoly

What Inspired Don Nielsen to Write Every School?

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