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American Center for Transforming Education
July 16, 2024
Education
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Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Flaws in the American Education System on Futures Edge

American Center for Transforming Education
July 16, 2024
Education
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On Futures Edge, hosted by Jim Iuorio and Bob Iaccino, Dr. Keri D. Ingraham discusses the flaws in the American education system that are holding our students and our country back from a successful and thriving future. Read More ›
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Peter Biles
July 16, 2024
Education
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Banning Smartphones Helps. Now Bring Back the Books.

Peter Biles
July 16, 2024
Education
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This summer, several states have proposed banning smartphones in public schools or introducing programs that will limit kids' phone use during school hours. So far New York, Indiana, Ohio, California, and Oklahoma have proposed bans or restrictions, showing rare bipartisan concern over the issue. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024
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Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024
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We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important, but many of us aren't sure exactly why. Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the processes of sleep emerge in living things? Could a gradual Darwinian process be responsible, or are the systems involved another instance of intelligent design? On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin about the origin and intelligent design of sleep. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 next! Read More ›
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William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024
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William Dembski on Why Intelligent Design Matters

William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024
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On this ID the Future from the archive, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about Life and the Cosmos, which Dembski co-edited with Joseph Holden and episode host Casey Luskin. Dembski discusses why intelligent design better explains the latest scientific evidence better than blind material processes can. He also talks about ID's cultural implications. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
July 13, 2024
Discovery Institute
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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England

Marvin Olasky
July 13, 2024
Discovery Institute
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On July 4 we celebrated the rare revolution that worked. This page focuses on two wonderfully readable books about the mostly unsuccessful 17th century revolution that preceded America’s 18th century one, and the partly successful 19th century revolution that followed. Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 (Knopf, 2023) features vivid, specific detail. Some on Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Legalizing euthanasia corrupts everything — the ethics of medicine, the public's perception of people experiencing illness, disability, or elder frailty, the media that continually swoon over medics who kill. This latter phenomenon is on vivid display in a National Post story. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith and Jay Bhattacharya
July 11, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Universities Should Promote Rigorous Discourse, Not Stifle It

Wesley J. Smith and Jay Bhattacharya
July 11, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and Abraham Verghese urge universities to "speak out publicly" and issue official institutional opinions about public controversies involving its professors "when it concludes that a faculty member's opinion could cause public harm." Read More ›