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^{Marvin Olasky
November 9, 2024
Discovery Institute}

Eight History Books and Five Novels

_{Marvin Olasky
November 9, 2024
Discovery Institute}

November, a month that culminates in Thanksgiving, is a good time to review history books—so let’s gallop through eight, starting with Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power (Knopf, 2024). Timothy Ryback weaves a story of betrayals, backroom deals, and one often-ignored aspect: the support Hitler received from dominant media. Publishing mogul Alfred Hugenberg thought the 1,600 newspapers he controlled would Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe
November 8, 2024}

Michael Behe and Michael Medved Explore Secrets of the Cell

_{Michael J. Behe
November 8, 2024}

a teenage boy who ran away from home, scared, stands alone on the platform,

^{Marvin Olasky
November 8, 2024
Homelessness}

The Winding Path of Homeless Youth

_{Marvin Olasky
November 8, 2024
Homelessness}

In the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Tyler quoted homeless individuals about family influences: "My dad and my mom both drank really hard. . . . My grandfather died from alcohol abuse. . . . My dad's three brothers are all alcoholics and do drugs. . . . my cousins, they're all drug dealers. . . . Dad gets abusive . . ." Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

West Virginia Voters Enact Constitutional Amendment Banning Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

There will be a lot of political news in the next week. But I don't want it missed that apparently West Virginia voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment banning assisted suicide. This is the first time that the so-called right to die movement has been proactively pushed back — as opposed to successfully defending against that policy’s spread. Read More ›

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^{Pat Flynn and Selmer Bringsjord
November 7, 2024}

Consciousness, Materialism, and the Limits of Reductionism

_{Pat Flynn and Selmer Bringsjord
November 7, 2024}

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

“Nature” Editorial Attacks Trump Because He Ignored “Scientific Consensus”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The idea that "science" and the supposed "scientific consensus" — which too often is really political consensus within the science establishment — are synonymous is causing tremendous harm to the scientific sector. But the science establishment keeps forging widespread public distrust by doubling down on the politics. Read More ›

High School Students Looking Through Microscope In Biology Class

^{Kate Kavanaugh
November 6, 2024}

Private School Students Share Their Experience Learning About Intelligent Design

_{Kate Kavanaugh
November 6, 2024}

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted Suicide Champion, Has Died at 83

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The great anti-euthanasia warrior, Rita Marker, has died at 83 after a long illness. Rita was in Europe in the mid 1980s and, out of curiosity, attended an international right-to-die convention. She was so alarmed by what she heard, she and her late husband and soulmate Mike Marker, formed the nonprofit International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force (later renamed the Patients Rights Council). Read More ›

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^{Jonathan McLatchie
November 4, 2024}

How the Origin of Our Digits Points to Process of Foresight

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 4, 2024}

^{Rob Stadler
November 1, 2024}

At The Origin of Life, There’s No Shortcut to Energy-Harnessing

_{Rob Stadler
November 1, 2024}

On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, an episode of the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. Tune in to learn more! Read More ›