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The Latest

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability: Evolution News; January 25, 2022

Neil Thomas: An Autopsy of Darwinism: Evolution News; January 24, 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

What Will It Take to Put U.S. K-12 Education on a Better Path?: Keri D. Ingraham; January 17, 2022

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Youngkin Rips Off the School Mask Mandate

_{Debra J. Saunders
January 23, 2022}

Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated and a school mask mandate. He embraced the radical idea of allowing parents to decide if their children mask up in the classroom, effective Jan. 24.

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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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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

_{The Center for Science and Culture
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4
04
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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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

_{The Center for Science and Culture
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06
Jun
4
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2022
Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs, CO}

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 of the worldview …

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International Seminar on Intelligent Design

_{The Center for Science and Culture
Date
June
06
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10
10
2022
Dallas, TX
Online Event}

Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Given the restrictions on international travel at the time of writing, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants in the summer of 2022 and to instead offer a third …

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Design & Designer: The Convergence of Science & Theology

_{2022 Westminster Conference on Science & Faith}_{The Center for Science and Culture
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04
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2022
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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.