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A Diffident Revolutionary: David Klinghoffer; June 16, 2025; 6; Intelligent Design

Earth’s Phosphorus Supply Chains Revealed: David Coppedge; June 16, 2025; 9; Evolution

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Microsoft Pulls Major Tech Conference from Seattle Over Crime, Drug Use, Homelessness: Ari Hoffman and Jonathan Choe; June 10, 2025; 6; Homelessness

Donnelly: Study Sobering Look at Cost of Electrification: Ann Donnelly; June 10, 2025; 4; Energy

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“Live Free or Die” State Becomes First Universal School Choice State in the Northeast

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June 12, 2025
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With Governor Kelly Ayotte’s signature on Tuesday, New Hampshire became the first state in the Northeast and the 17th state in the nation to enact universal school choice. While unfathomable just a few years ago, historic education freedom is becoming a reality, state by state and with great speed. New Hampshire is the sixth state in 2025 to enact universal school choice.

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The Toxic Patterns that Keep People on the Streets

Ken Peterson Talks with Brandi Kruse About “What Does It Cost?” Documentary: Center on Wealth & Poverty; June 6, 2025; Energy

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Texas Higher Education Bill on NTD News: American Center for Transforming Education; June 5, 2025; Education

The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life: Physicist Dr. Brian Miller: Andrew McDiarmid; June 4, 2025; Intelligent Design

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul: Andrew McDiarmid; June 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Michael Egnor Reads From His New Book The Immortal Mind

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June 11, 2025}

On this ID The Future, Dr. Michael Egnor reads the Introduction to his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, now available from Worthy Books. In this reading, Dr. Egnor shares his journey from being a medical student who believed science could explain everything, including how consciousness emerges from the brain and whether we have a soul, to a neurosurgeon who questioned the conventional materialist view. He discusses how years of operating on and examining patients with brain damage led him to wonder how large parts of the brain could be removed without affecting a person’s mind or their ability to think, reason, believe, and desire. His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family …

Jay Richards on the “Ground Clearing” Work of Jonathan Wells

_{Jay W. Richards
June 9, 2025}

Before the positive case for intelligent design can be received effectively, the case against the Darwinian evolutionary mechanism must be clearly laid out. One man who was instrumental in this initial “ground clearing operation” was biologist Dr. Jonathan Wells, our friend and colleague who passed away in 2024 at the age of 82. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Jay Richards to the podcast to share his memories of Dr. Wells and discuss the significance of Wells’s life and work. The conversation highlights Wells’s early and deep understanding of biological complexity, even in the late 1990s. Richards recalls Wells explaining that the information in organisms goes “way beyond” the sequential information in DNA. Wells perceived …

Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 9, 2025}

Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suffering that come to be seen as appropriate reasons to cause death expands continually. Often, this suicide agenda — let’s call it — advances so slowly that, over time, people become acclimated to policies that were once unthinkable. But that has not been the case in Canada, where the government and much of the population enthusiastically embraced what the law euphemistically calls medical assistance in dying, or MAID. As a result, the “slippery slope” can be seen slip sliding away in real time to the unfortunate point that euthanasia is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Indeed, in …

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