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^{Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2024
Homelessness

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Public Camping Bans: Not a Cure-All, Not Cruel

_{Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2024
Homelessness

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We’ve accepted the dangerous conditions of public camping as a fact of urban life. It’s time to change the status quo, and the Supreme Court’s homelessness ruling gives us the chance to do that. Camping bans are not a cure-all or a cruelty. Here’s why. Read More ›

Statue of Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist and biologist in Natural History Museum. London, United Kingdom.

^{David Gelernter
July 10, 2024

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Giving Up Darwin’s Brilliant and Beautiful Theory

_{David Gelernter
July 10, 2024

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Five years ago, Yale University professor of computer science David Gelernter wrote that he was bidding farewell to neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory. Why would he take such a bold step? What convinced him that the neo-Darwinian paradigm no longer satisfied the scientific evidence? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid marks the fifth anniversary of Gelernter's important essay by reading it aloud in full. If you’ve read the essay, this will likely be a good refresher on Gelernter’s arguments. If you haven’t read it yet, by all means enjoy! Read More ›

AI robot dressed in priest's robes, preaching in a church. This futuristic scene combines traditional religious settings with advanced technology

^{Robert J. Marks II
July 9, 2024
Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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No Foundational Evidence for Creating an AI God

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 9, 2024
Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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Some in the artificial intelligence tech industry believe they are "creating God," according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a recent interview. And he is right. Many pursuing AI advances are trying to create God or believe humans can achieve a godlike status through technology. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
July 9, 2024
Economics

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Superabundance Featured by John Stossel — and Reposted by Elon Musk!

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
July 9, 2024
Economics

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On Monday, John Stossel featured Superabundance in a video titled "The Scaremongers Are Wrong," encouraging people to ignore the apocalyptic messages from climate activists and have more babies. Elon Musk reposted the video. Read More ›

^{Emily Reeves
July 8, 2024

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Emily Reeves on Intersection of Biology and Engineering

_{Emily Reeves
July 8, 2024

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The biochemical revolution of the last century has revealed powerful evidence of design in living things. Now, scientists are beginning to realize the benefits of studying designed systems through an engineering lens. On today's episode, Dr. Emily Reeves discusses the intersection of biology and engineering with Fred Williams and Doug McBurney, hosts of the Real Science Radio podcast. In this 45-minute chat, Dr. Reeves explains the importance of using engineering principles to understand biological systems. This interview originally aired on Real Science Radio. Read More ›

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^{John Wohlstetter
July 8, 2024
Citizen Leadership

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The Summer 2024 Presidential Succession Crisis Explodes

_{John Wohlstetter
July 8, 2024
Citizen Leadership

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After Thursday night's presidential debate, one thing is clear: Joe Biden will NOT be nominated at the Democratic Convention. He will be persuaded to announce that he will not run for re-election — a reversion to his 2020 campaign pledge, made to assuage voter concerns about his age, that he would serve as a one-term president. Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
July 8, 2024
Citizen Leadership

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25th Amendment: Acting President Is Not Being President

_{John Wohlstetter
July 8, 2024
Citizen Leadership

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Calls abound for the removal of President Biden over his objection, using the involuntary disability provision, with Vice-President Kamala Harris to then assume the presidency. What the text of Section 4 makes clear, however, is than under that provision, she can be Acting President only. Section 3, covering voluntary disability, provides the same. Read More ›

multiverse and laternative universes concept

^{Stephen C. Meyer
July 8, 2024

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Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 8, 2024

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On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, radio host Michael Medved sits down with bestselling science author Stephen Meyer to discuss the Marvel movie Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Medved isn’t wild about the film, but he uses it as a springboard to dive into what he calls “the madness of the multiverse”—namely, the proposals in physics and cosmology for the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Meyer explains some of the early motivations among twentieth-century physicists and cosmologists for proposing such an exotic theory. Then he turns to what he says is the main driver for interest in the multiverse in our day—a desire to explain away something that is deeply puzzling on the grounds of atheism: that the laws and constants of physics and chemistry are exquisitely fine tuned for life. Read More ›

^{Robert J. Marks II
July 6, 2024
Intelligent Design

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AI Apocalypse: Will Thinking Machines Replace Humans?

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 6, 2024
Intelligent Design

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Computer engineer Robert J. Marks talks about how artificial intelligence (AI) has influenced our society as well as the hype which has surrounded AI in the last few years. This talk was presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith in January 2022. Marks is author of the book Non-Computable You: What You Do that Artificial Intelligence Never Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Unnatural Death

_{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In this wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide, historian Richard Weikart takes us from the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans to the contemporary scene — where the urge to help people kill themselves has intensified, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? Read More ›