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Contest of Cosmic Stories “Isn’t a Fair Fight”: David Klinghoffer; April 13, 2026; 3; History of Science

Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis: Bethel McGrew; April 13, 2026; 6; Biology

Olasky Books: A new history of public housing: Marvin Olasky; April 11, 2026; 5; Discovery Institute

Trump Administration Taps Treasury to Fix Student Loan Failures: Keri D. Ingraham; April 7, 2026; 5; Education

Schools Should Educate Children, Not Train Activists: Keri D. Ingraham; April 6, 2026; 5; Education

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Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting

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On April 7, Wesley J. Smith participated in a Heritage Foundation-hosted discussion titled, “Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors.” He was joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, Representative Chris Smith (R–NJ), Jan Jekielek (Senior Editor of The Epoch Times, host of “American Thought Leaders”), Ethan Gutmann, and Bob Moffit.

Video

Nature’s Fitness for the Human Body: The Center for Science and Culture; April 6, 2026; Intelligent Design

America’s Founders and Intelligent Design: The Center for Science and Culture; March 30, 2026; Intelligent Design

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Shrinking the Department of Education on The Tony Kinnett Cast: American Center for Transforming Education; March 23, 2026; Education

Endowed by Our Creator Trailer: The Center for Science and Culture; March 17, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

Evolving Rights? Darwinism’s Impact on American Life and Government

_{John G. West
April 8, 2026}

The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding creed, reminding us time and again that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But for too long now, science has been misused to overturn the ideas found in our nation’s founding principles. Is there hope for recovering these truths anew? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is joined again by Dr. John West to conclude a discussion about West’s latest book Endowed By Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. First, Dr. West unpacks the bad news: how science has been misused to attack the truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. This shift began with pre-Darwinian scientific racism and intensified with Darwin’s theory of evolution, used to …

How Science Affirms America’s Founding Creed

_{John G. West
April 6, 2026}

For generations, the hallowed words of the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by a Creator with certain unalienable rights has inspired not only Americans, but millions around the globe. Yet today, many Americans are skeptical or confused about the Declaration’s key claims. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. John West to the podcast to begin a discussion about his latest book Endowed By Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. In Part 1, West reviews key words and phrases from the Declaration of Independence to reveal what the founders really meant by them and how they the words were shaped by the philosophical, theological, and scientific consensus of the day. West argues that the American identity is defined by a …

Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

_{Melissa Cain Travis
April 3, 2026}

Do humans project mathematical order onto nature? Or was it there all along? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his three-part conversation with Dr. Melissa Cain Travis about her book Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility. In Part 3, we look at how Kepler’s ideas and work can inform the scientific enterprise today. Many scientists recognize the mystery of cosmic comprehensibility, including such respected voices as Albert Einstein, Sir Roger Penrose, and Paul Davies. Materialists remain agnostic or put it down to chance. But there’s a more satisfying explanation, says Travis. “Centuries ago, Kepler already held the trump card. Science itself … can’t be explained …

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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 participants 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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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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