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More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence: Denyse O'Leary; December 5, 2024; 5; Human Origins

Frightening Recommendations from Francis Collins: John G. West; December 5, 2024; 12; Medicine

Now, It’s “Whale Rights”: Wesley J. Smith; December 3, 2024; 3; Human Exceptionalism

2024: The Year “San Francisco Values” Finally Failed: Wesley J. Smith; December 2, 2024; 7; Human Exceptionalism

Social Media Influencer Nick Shirley Chased While Touring Seattle’s Chinatown: Jonathan Choe; December 1, 2024; 1; Homelessness

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Gurteen and Lowell: Nineteenth Century Views on True Charity

_{Marvin Olasky
November 29, 2024
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Homelessness}

One Buffalo pastor, S. Humphreys Gurteen, said poverty was a problem, but an underlying cause was not material. He worried about the “concentrated and systematized pauperism which exists in our larger cities.” Gurteen wrote regarding “paupers” — those among the poor who had given up on working — that, “If left to themselves and no kind hand is held out to assist, they will inevitably sink lower and lower, ’til perchance they end their course in suicide or felony.”

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A New Approach for Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

Wesley J. Smith Appears on American Thought Leaders to Discuss the Assisted Suicide Movement: Center on Human Exceptionalism; November 13, 2024; Human Exceptionalism

COSM 2024 in the Words of George Gilder: The Bradley Center; November 1, 2024; Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Protecting Girls’ Sports & Privacy on Victory News: American Center for Transforming Education; October 18, 2024; Education

The Robot Repairmen Inside You (Secrets of the Cell, Ep. 9): Michael J. Behe; October 11, 2024; Intelligent Design

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The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

_{Stuart Burgess
December 4, 2024}

When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. But when it comes to marvels of the natural world, like bird wings, whale flippers, and our own arms and legs, we’re expected to suspend our design intuition and credit a gradual, undirected evolutionary process. Bio-engineer Dr. Stuart Burgess has been studying vertebrate limbs for over thirty years. On this episode of ID The Future, Burgess shares his cutting-edge insights on the universal optimal design of vertebrate limb patterns and the implications for fields like robotics. When he formulated his theory of natural selection in the 19th century, Charles Darwin considered the whale flipper a “stiff …

New Study Triggers Key Origin of Life Questions

_{Casey Luskin
December 2, 2024}

Did life on earth spring up early and easily through evolutionary processes? Or does the emergence of life represent another infusion of information into the biosphere that is best explained by intelligent design? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid and Dr. Casey Luskin discuss the implications of a recent study on the last universal common ancestor, also known as LUCA. They explore the nature of LUCA as a hypothetical organism, its complexity, and the challenges it poses to evolutionary theory. The conversation also touches on the media’s portrayal of scientific findings and the problems associated with molecular clock techniques used to date LUCA. Ultimately, they highlight the rapid emergence of complex life on Earth and the implications for origin of life …

Nina Shea on the Persecution of the Catholic Church in China

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2024}

Religious persecution continues to afflict the world. Anti-Semitism abounds. Certain Islamic countries suppress minority faiths while Muslims face persecution in countries like India. Non-Orthodox Christians are persecuted in Russia, while some American Christians claim that they are discriminated against because of living out their faith precepts. In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on the suppression of the Catholic Church in Communist China. Making her second appearance on the podcast, Wesley’s guest is one of the most informed persons in the world about these egregious human rights abuses. Nina Shea is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute. Ms. Shea has been a human rights lawyer for nearly 40 years. She works …

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