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^{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The Biden Department of Education Seems to Hate Women and Girls

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

In a slap to the face to all American women and girls in schools and universities, the Department of Education dismantled many existing federal protections against actual sex discrimination promulgated under a civil rights law known as Title IX — which protects females against discrimination at public schools, colleges, and universities receiving federal funding — by unilaterally rewriting the law to apply to “gender,” which isn’t the same thing at all. Read More ›

^{Jonathan Choe
April 23, 2024
Homelessness}

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Homelessness Case: Full Analysis

_{Jonathan Choe
April 23, 2024
Homelessness}

The US Supreme Court confronted the nation's homelessness crisis on Monday, weighing whether a ban on sleeping in public is constitutional. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut is in Washington D.C. with a full breakdown and analysis. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2024}

Thomas Linzey on the Nature Rights Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2024}

^{Eric H. Anderson
April 23, 2024}

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

_{Eric H. Anderson
April 23, 2024}

A Washington Post headline recently declared that a "monumental experiment suggests how life on earth may have started." The reality, however, is far more sobering. In this episode of ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with accomplished medical engineer and origin of life author, Robert Stadler, to discuss what this new research actually shows and the relevance to abiogenesis. Read More ›

^{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
April 22, 2024
Intelligent Design}

Was Your Body Intelligently Designed?

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
April 22, 2024
Intelligent Design}

Medical doctor Howard Glicksman and systems engineer Steve Laufmann discuss the incredible design and functionality of the human body in this presentation taped at the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute and Westminster Theological Seminary. For more information on the topic of this talk, check out the book Your Designed Body by Glicksman and Laufmann: Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 19, 2024
Homelessness}

Homelessness in Colonial New England

_{Marvin Olasky
April 19, 2024
Homelessness}

Since starting this weekly column in June 2022 I’ve covered lots of topics, including homelessness in late medieval England — but I’ve shorted American history. Since today, April 19, is the anniversary of the battles in Lexington and Concord that started the Revolutionary War in 1775, it’s a good day on which to take a rapid ride through the New England countryside and summarize common responses to homelessness in the 17th and 18th centuries. Read More ›

^{Eric Cassell and Robert J. Marks II
April 19, 2024}

The High Tech Animal Navigation That Defies Darwinian Explanations

_{Eric Cassell and Robert J. Marks II
April 19, 2024}

On this classic episode of ID the Future from the vault, we spotlight the book Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. The author, Eric Cassell, joins host and Baylor computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks to discuss the groundbreaking book and, in particular, the chapters on some of the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators—the arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others. Read More ›

United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, USA.

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness}

SCOTUS Will Hear Arguments in Controversial Homelessness Case that Will Impact Cities Nationwide

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness}

As homelessness hits all-time highs across the country, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments next Monday about whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property are constitutional. The case will determine how cities nationwide are allowed to respond to the crisis of homelessness. Read More ›

^{Selmer Bringsjord and Pat Flynn
April 18, 2024}

The Non-Physical Nature of Being: More with Dr. Selmer Bringsjord

_{Selmer Bringsjord and Pat Flynn
April 18, 2024}

^{Brian Miller and Andrew McDiarmid
April 17, 2024}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Brian Miller and Andrew McDiarmid
April 17, 2024}

You may already know about the mounting evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that suggests our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves. But did you know there is also evidence that Earth is uniquely fit for human technology? Read More ›