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David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Our nation’s capital is steeped in lessons from U.S. history. You could spend years there trying to gather up and learn from them all. In a way the whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design — the idea, as Thomas Jefferson saw it, that life and the cosmos bear objective evidence of purpose in their design. Read More ›
An electron microscopy image of a cell membrane attached to a bacterial cell wall highlighting the important role of the cell wall .
An electron microscopy image of a cell membrane attached to a bacterial cell wall highlighting the important role of the cell wall
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Jonathan McLatchie
July 3, 2024
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The Irreducible Complexity Found in Bacterial Cell Division

Jonathan McLatchie
July 3, 2024
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Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back, this time to discuss with host Andrew McDiarmid the engineering elegance and irreducible complexity of the process of bacterial cell division. You may wonder why we should care about something so minuscule as bacterial cells. After all, something so insignificant and unseen has little bearing on our daily lives. But if we've learned anything in the biological revolution of the 20th century, it's that consequential things often come in very small packages. And if even the simplest forms of life exhibit stunning complexity and engineering prowess, all the more do we! And that complexity and design demands an adequate explanation. Here, McLatchie describes the remarkable process of cell wall breakage and re-synthesis that allows cell division to take place and explains why it's a big problem for Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Exploring Intelligent Design through the Memorials of Washington DC
John G. West
July 2, 2024
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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We Hold These Truths: Exploring Intelligent Design through the Memorials of Washington DC

John G. West
July 2, 2024
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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Celebrate July 4th weekend by exploring the importance of intelligent design to some of the greatest figures in American history through this brief tour of four iconic memorials in Washington, DC. We’ll visit the Jefferson Memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the Word War II Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial. Your tour guide is Dr. John West, Vice President Read More ›

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Caitlyn McKenney
July 2, 2024
Homelessness
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Middle America Has a Lot to Teach us About Homelessness

Caitlyn McKenney
July 2, 2024
Homelessness
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In this episode, I’m joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Marvin Olasky who is the author of 29 books, the former editor of WORLD Magazine, and has spent the last year living in homeless programs across the U.S. to learn from the people living in them. We discuss the bias of West Coast journalism, what makes programs successful, and the stories Read More ›

The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith with Dr. Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin and Eric Metaxas
June 28, 2024
Intelligent Design
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The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith with Dr. Casey Luskin

Casey Luskin and Eric Metaxas
June 28, 2024
Intelligent Design
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Scientist and attorney Casey Luskin sits down with Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas to explore these big questions: Is science objective? How did humans come into existence? How do you reconcile faith and science? Luskin is the editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith and co-author of Science and Human Origins and Associate Director of the Read More ›

The United States Supreme Court at dusk
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Discovery Institute
June 28, 2024
Homelessness
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U.S. Supreme Court Backs Local Communities in Nation’s Homeless Response

Discovery Institute
June 28, 2024
Homelessness
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Grants Pass v. Johnson that city ordinances against public camping do not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. The Court’s decision is a win not only for the small Oregon city of Grants Pass, but also for dozens of Western localities that had been hamstrung by the Ninth Circuit as they grapple with record high rates of homelessness. Read More ›
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Caitlyn McKenney
June 28, 2024
Economics
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Washington State Needs the Private Sector to Meet Urgent Housing Needs

Caitlyn McKenney
June 28, 2024
Economics
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The Washington State Affordable Housing Advisory Board recently released a “Housing Advisory Plan” to address what it describes as an “urgent crisis” of needed affordable housing options in the state. According to the plan, there is only one affordable housing unit available for every five households in need (for those at or below 50-percent of median family income (MFI)). Read More ›