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News

From Materialists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025
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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework.

Video

The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life: Physicist Dr. Brian Miller

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul: Andrew McDiarmid; June 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe: Andrew McDiarmid; May 26, 2025; Intelligent Design

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism: Andrew McDiarmid; May 20, 2025; Intelligent Design

Is The Soul Real? A Neurosurgeon Explores The Evidence: Michael Egnor; May 20, 2025; Intelligent Design

ID the Future

Behe, Meyer, & Lennox: The Evidence for Design is Growing

_{John Lennox
June 20, 2025
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On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Uncommon Knowledge’s Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of life and the universe. In the first half of a wide-ranging conversation in Fiesole, Italy, they explore the growing problems with modern evolutionary theory and the increasing amount of evidence, uncovered by a rigorous application of the scientific method, that points to intentional design of the physical world. The conversation appears here with the generous permission of Peter Robinson and the Hoover Institution. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

Brian Miller on Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

_{Brian Miller
June 18, 2025
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Can viewing life as designed enhance scientific research? Today, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Dr. Miller is part of a group that brings together engineers, scientists, and scholars to demonstrate how engineering principles, patterns, and tools can deepen the understanding of biology. The group hosts an annual Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, hosted by the Discovery Institute, that highlights new insights and research projects in this bold new approach to the study of life. Here Dr. Miller gives the lowdown on current research as well as this year's conference.

Denyse O’Leary: Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

_{Denyse O'Leary
June 16, 2025
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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with journalist Denyse O'Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience that shatter materialist assumptions. O'Leary is co-author with Dr. Michael Egnor of The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul. In this conversation, O'Leary reports on recent findings about the origin of consciousness, the challenge that near-death experiences present to materialism, and why the only way to move past materialism is to reject it fully as a model.

Events

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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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Glen Eyrie
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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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International Seminar on Intelligent Design

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Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Due to the volatility and uncertainty of international travel, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants and instead offer a third program combining both tracks described …

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News

From Materialists, a Profound Capitulation

Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

Do Genetic Differences Represent “Tech Failures"?

Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolution

Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

Video

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

Why Life is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism

Is The Soul Real? A Neurosurgeon Explores The Evidence