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Your Amazing Body

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. Join engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman as they take you on an incredible journey exploring some of your body's greatest marvels. Read More ›
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The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life: Physicist Dr. Brian Miller

For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial and lie outside the physical world. Today, physicist Dr. Brian Miller joins host ‪Andrew McDiarmid‬ to share his perspective on the cutting-edge, potentially revolutionary research of mathematical Read More ›

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Intelligent Design Education Day — Tacoma

After a successful event in Spokane, we are excited to announce that Intelligent Design Education Day is coming to Tacoma, Washington! The theme — Creepy Crawly Complexity — returns this fall, inviting students to explore the incredible world of “creepy crawlies,” with special presentations and videos on insects and spiders (from the phylum Arthropoda), earthworms (Annelida), and roundworms (Nematoda). While learning about the complexity and Read More ›

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A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

In a new interview for the ID The Future podcast, host ‪‪Andrew McDiarmid‬ is thrilled to welcome back renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor to continue discussing his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. The book tackles provocative ideas, making a case that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. Read More ›

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Smithsonian Exhibit Overstates Genetic Similarity Between Humans and Apes and Should Be Fixed

An exhibit on human origins at the Smithsonian vastly overstates the genetic similarity between humans and apes and needs to be fixed according to Discovery Institute. This week the Institute sent a letter to Smithsonian leadership pointing out that the exhibit contains serious misstatements of scientific fact. Read More ›
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Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is – blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. But what if that perspective is fundamentally challenged by the very laws of physics that govern our universe? On this ID The Future, host ‪Andrew McDiarmid‬ welcomes physicist Dr. Eric Hedin to the podcast to discuss the compelling idea Read More ›

3rd Annual Polish Conference to Feature Paul Nelson and William Dembski

The 3rd-annual Faith & Science in the Age of Secularization conference will take place on June 13-14 at the Hotel Gromada Centrum in Warsaw, Poland. Discovery Institute Senior Fellows Paul Nelson and William Dembski will join theologian Robert Stackpole and Dominican friar and author Michał Chaberek to present on the scientific theory of intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinian Read More ›

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New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1% in Their DNA

Seattle — For years, the public has been told that human beings and chimpanzees are, in genetic terms, only "1 percent" different. But according to Discovery Institute scientist Dr. Casey Luskin, this claim has just been overturned by research recently published in Nature, the world's most prestigious science journal. Read More ›
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The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism

Is your mind more than just your brain? Does the soul actually exist? These questions have been pondered for millennia. What does the latest scientific research suggest? On this episode of the ID The Future podcast, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor begins a conversation with host ‪Andrew McDiarmid‬ about his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Read More ›

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Is The Soul Real? A Neurosurgeon Explores The Evidence

Does science prove the existence of the soul? Here award-winning neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explores the evidence. Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual in any respect. We are made up of cells and tissue, and completely controlled by Read More ›