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Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 8, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics
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Homelessness, Compassion, and COVID-19

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 8, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics
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Join us for an online webinar with Christopher Rufo, Discovery Institute's new Director for the Center on Wealth and Poverty, and learn about the root causes of the homeless crisis as well as what our response to the coronavirus pandemic reveals about the Left-Right divide. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus

Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Undirected natural selection can’t lift itself by its own bootstraps — accidents can’t happen in nature except in a sea of design. The evolution of the COVID-19 virus is a clear and terrible example of the undeniable teleology in nature. Darwinian random variation and selection, when it happens, is parasitic on biological and natural design. Read More ›
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family mother father and children watching projector, TV, movies with popcorn in the evening at home
Sarah Chaffee
April 6, 2020
Education, Intelligent Design
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Here’s How to Use Precious Family Time, Wisely

Sarah Chaffee
April 6, 2020
Education, Intelligent Design
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Despite their sometimes nonchalant attitudes as they try to act cool, children do care what their parents think. They appreciate it when parents lovingly take time to explain important lessons and to encourage questioning. This social distancing period may be the opposite of what you and your family want, but using the time and opportunities now could bear fruit for years to come. Read More ›
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Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Foreign Policy, Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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The Dragon’s Deception

Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Foreign Policy, Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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U.S. Intelligence reports that China has misrepresented the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Social media was part of the strategy. An investigation by ProPublica and the UN shows that China has used thousands of Twitterbots, as well as hacked accounts, to applaud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the heroes who stopped the coronavirus in China. Read More ›
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Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life
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America Needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice Under the Law

Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life
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In prior times of war, crisis, suffering, and loss of life from causes outside the U.S., Americans of both parties would pull together and focus on what can be done to quickly help, alleviate, and solve the problem. No longer. The COVID-19 crisis provides us a window into our national social and spiritual health, and what we see from much of America’s Left as expressed in the media and Democrat Party reveals a degree and strain of moral impoverishment we haven’t seen before. The COVID-19 crisis in America will pass as all such virus epidemics do, but an overriding issue and question that will remain for the American future is: Do we have sufficient courage and determination to successfully deal with the internal threats and contradictions that jeopardize the future viability of the United States and its Constitution? Read More ›
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Abstract variation on the theme of life originated in water 3.8 billion years ago
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Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Origin-of-life researchers want to explain the origin of the first and presumably simplest — or, at least, minimally complex — living cell. As a result, developments in fields that explicate the nature of unicellular life have historically defined the questions that origin-of-life scenarios must answer. Read More ›