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This Should Be Trump’s Top Trade Priority

An agreement between the world's largest and fifth-largest economies will create a huge free trade zone, benefiting businesses and spurring growth on both sides of the Atlantic. Read More ›

Reasons to Believe Hosts Casey Luskin in Seattle

Discovery Institute is excited to announce that Casey Luskin, Associate Director of the Center for Science & Culture, has been invited by Reasons to Believe to speak with Senior Research Scholar Jeff Zweerink on the possible existence of extraterrestrial life and its implications. The event will also feature a live audience Q&A, so bring your curiosity and your questions. A Read More ›

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The Amazing, Intelligently Designed Honeybee

Learn about the amazing intelligent design of the honeybee in this talk by physicist Eric Hedin at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Dr. Hedin is author of the book Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See. Are you interested in the origins of life and the universe? Get this free book and explore the Read More ›

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Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

In 1980, influential paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that “we can know that evolution has happened by the imperfections and oddities that life shows.” But is that true? And what if we take a closer look at those assumed evolutionary oddities and see instead evidence of engineered elegance? On this episode of the ID The Future podcast, Read More ›

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A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

"Futile care" is a bioethics theory in which doctors are authorized to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on their belief about the quality of a patient's life. It can be cruel — and on occasion, mistaken. Prominent medical journals usually support futile-care theory. But the New England Journal of Medicine just published a contrary column by a compassionate doctor who rejected that approach in order to keep hope alive for his terminally ill patient and her family. Read More ›