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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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Podium speaker tribune with USA flags and sign of White House with space for text. Briefing of president of US United States in White House.Politics concept. 3d illustration
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›

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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›