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On April 23, Keri D. Ingraham appeared on Freedom to Learn with Ginny Gentles, a podcast of the Defense of Freedom Institute. Dr. Ingraham discussed the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and why downsizing the federal bureaucracy will improve learning outcomes for students. She also shattered school choice myths, exposed why the teachers unions unravel over the loss Read More ›

Attention Seattle-area friends of Discovery Institute! We are pleased to announce a special opening-night film screening of the new feature-length film, The Story of Everything, which follows the eye-opening story told in Stephen Meyer’s 2021 bestseller, Return of the God Hypothesis (HarperOne). Set to release in hundreds of theaters across the country starting April 30th, this new film combines insightful Read More ›

Moving from the Big Bang and the discovery of cosmic beginnings, to the fine-tuning of the physical constants that make life possible, to the extraordinary complexity and information embedded in DNA, mathematician John Lennox, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, and chemist James Tour, explores whether these developments point to blind, undirected processes—or to the activity of an intelligent mind. The Read More ›

Matt Fradd interviews Stephen C. Meyer about why he abandoned secular materialism for Christian theism, centering on questions of meaning, morality, and reason. Meyer argues that a purely naturalistic universe cannot give lasting significance to human lives or achievements, which he links to a wider crisis of meaning. If our minds are products of unguided evolution plus matter alone, we Read More ›