Intelligent Design

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The Intelligent Design of Plants

Learn about the incredible intelligent design of plants from Daniel Reeves, Director of Education and Outreach at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and biologist Dr. Emily Reeves, research scientist at the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›
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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. Read More ›
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Creepy Crawly Complexity — Intelligent Design Education Day (Tacoma)

After a successful event in Spokane earlier this year, we are excited to announce that Intelligent Design Education Day is coming to Tacoma, Washington! 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. 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 ›

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 ›