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Meyer versus Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?: Neil Thomas; October 5, 2026; 10; Intelligent Design

The Mysterious Million Dollars: William A. Dembski; October 5, 2026; 5; Computational Sciences

Science is proving Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists wrong: Stephen C. Meyer; September 22, 2026; 7; Intelligent Design

Another Canadian Euthanasia Horror: Wesley J. Smith; September 22, 2026; 6; Human Exceptionalism

Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of ‘Junk DNA’: Casey Luskin; September 20, 2026; 6; Intelligent Design

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HUD’s Homelessness Reforms Put Human Lives Ahead of Housing Bureaucracy

_{Michele Steeb
September 29, 2026
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For more than a decade, federal homelessness policy has centered heavily on permanent housing placement, while the measures used to define and count homelessness have often obscured important differences between who is counted as homeless and who is being served through homelessness programs. Success will now be measured by whether people are getting better: recovering, working, reconnecting and reclaiming their lives.

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Wesley J. Smith Discusses Assisted Suicide and Nature Rights on Three Whisky Happy Hour Podcast

The Immortal Mind with Michael Egnor: The Center for Science and Culture; October 5, 2026; Intelligent Design

The Statistical Gimmicks Hiding America’s Homelessness Crisis: Center on Wealth & Poverty; October 1, 2026; Homelessness

Historic Advancement of Education Freedom: American Center for Transforming Education; September 30, 2026; Education

The Scientific Evidence He Couldn’t Ignore: Dr. Brian Miller’s Journey: Brian Miller; September 24, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Sam Brownback on Current Challenges to Religious Freedom

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2026}

Religious freedom — the ability to live and act according to one’s faith — is one of our most fundamental human rights. But as Western society has secularized, religious freedom seems to have been eclipsed by other concerns. Indeed, freedom of religion is too often devalued in the public square, and in some places in the world, is under direct — and even violent — assault. No one has put more thought into this urgent concern and what to do about it than Sam Brownback, returning for his sixth interview on Humanize. Sam Brownback served as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom from February 2018 to January 2021. He served as Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that he represented his home state in the United States Senate and the House of …

Science Suggests Matter and Meaning Are Both Real

_{Eric Hedin
September 30, 2026}

What is the story of everything? Is there a scientific and philosophical basis for meaning? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues exploring those questions with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin. In Part 2, the conversation turns to the scientific and philosophical basis for meaning in the universe. Dr. Hedin argues that materialism “fails to describe the world we experience.” He explores the problem with reducing life and the universe to their lowest terms. Sure, we boil down to matter in motion at the microscopic level, but we also live a life full of meaning at the macroscopic level. To acknowledge one and not the other, or to say that the one causes an illusion of the other, doesn’t match up with what science is telling us, says Hedin. …

A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory

_{Eric Hedin
September 28, 2026}

Why are we here? Does life, or the universe, mean anything? And if it does, what? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid explores those questions and more with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin. Using the recent documentary film The Story of Everything as a springboard for discussion, Hedin shows that cumulative scientific evidence is pointing to a purposeful universe, not a cosmic accident. Materialist narratives portray human existence as the product of mindless physical processes, something Dr. Hedin characterizes as a pandemic of meaninglessness, where human purpose is reduced to an illusion. But modern science, says Hedin, is actually telling a very different story. Key scientific discoveries of the last century point toward an intelligent mind behind the cosmos. Hedin …

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