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News

Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2026
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In few sports, perhaps, does the foot stand out more. Emily Reeves offers an appreciation.

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Free Will Won’t Be Vanquished — Michael Egnor

The UFO Disclosure: What Does It Mean for God?: Casey Luskin; June 9, 2026; Intelligent Design

Endowed with the Image of God — Nancy Pearcey: Nancy Pearcey; June 8, 2026; Faith & Science

Created Equal with Dr. Ben Carson: John G. West; May 25, 2026; Intelligent Design

Tell-Tale Signs of Bogus Science about the Origin of Life: The Center for Science and Culture; May 20, 2026; Intelligent Design

ID the Future

The Evaporating Promise of AGI: An Economist’s View

_{Gary Smith
June 19, 2026
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ID The Future listeners now get to enjoy two episodes each month from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of the Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. The Mind Matters News podcast brings you insight from computer scientists, engineers, inventors, neurosurgeons, and other experts who bring sanity to the conversation about natural and artificial intelligence, going beyond the hype to explore the undercurrents of these important ideas. And although the Mind Matters News podcast will not often explicitly discuss intelligent design, it regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin of information, and the things that make us uniquely human, all concepts that are central to the theory of intelligent design. Enjoy today’s offering of Mind Matters News! In this installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes economics professor and author Gary Smith to discuss the hype around artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AI’s impact on the market. Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Ponoma College and a frequent contributor to Mind Matters News. Smith argues that generative AI, embodied in services like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, exhibits many characteristics of past market bubbles, including excessive hype, lack of profitability, and unrealistic expectations. Smith holds that generative AI models have limited practical economic value. They may be good at finding statistical patterns but struggle to distinguish meaningful, useful correlations from coincidental ones. Smith describes the fundamental challenge of teaching machines true understanding that goes beyond mere pattern recognition. A number of examples and stories are shared throughout.

Stephen Meyer: New Ways to Stream and Share The Story of Everything

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 17, 2026
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The new documentary film The Story of Everything is no longer available in movie theaters, but there are now new ways to stream and share this intriguing documentary! Host Andrew McDiarmid recently caught up with our friend and colleague Dr. Stephen Meyer to ask him a few questions about how The Story of Everything has been received and the exciting new ways people can enjoy the film.

Still Zero: Why New Fossil Finds Don’t Solve Cambrian Explosion Mystery

_{Casey Luskin
June 15, 2026
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New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Does the new find solve the mystery of the Cambrian explosion? Are the headlines about these fossils justified? Are these in fact the long-lost ancestors of the Cambrian animals we’ve been looking for? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Casey Luskin to the show to to examine the evidence, ambiguity, and ongoing controversy surrounding newly reported Ediacaran bilaterian fossils.

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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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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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News

Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot

The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

Hope from Science and Polling on America’s Creed

Story of Everything, Now Streaming to the World

Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

“Paradigm Shift” on “Genomic Parasites, Junk DNA”

Video

The UFO Disclosure: What Does It Mean for God?

Endowed with the Image of God — Nancy Pearcey

Created Equal with Dr. Ben Carson

Tell-Tale Signs of Bogus Science about the Origin of Life