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Ola Hössjer
April 26, 2024
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How Finely Tuned Is Our Universe?

Ola Hössjer
April 26, 2024
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On this ID the Future from the archive, Baylor University computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks hosts Ola Hössjer of Stockholm University and Daniel Díaz of the University of Miami to discuss a recent research paper the three contributed to the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, “Is Cosmological Tuning Fine or Coarse?" Although it's no easy question to answer rigorously, the paper sheds new light on just how finely tuned our universe--and our existence--actually is. In this conversation, Marks, Hössjer, and Díaz unpack the long answer. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness
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The Ups and Downs of Recovery at The Forge

Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness
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The past two months I've written about those making progress at Forge, the Christian shelter I lived at in Joplin, Missouri. But not everyone perseveres. I played disc golf on a sunny day last October with one Forge resident who told me how he had become a devotee of YouTube Satanist channels. For a time, he combined demonic rituals, drug use, and increasingly elaborate drawings of skulls and skeletons. Read More ›
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Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
May 21, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The Farm at the Center of the Universe

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
May 21, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Why did Isaac’s father have to die so young? Isaac’s older cousin Charlie — a science teacher — says he knows why. Nature is pitiless. There’s no God. No afterlife. Just atoms in the void and the struggle for survival. Charlie says a week at their grandparents’ farm, seeing animals get killed and eaten, will prove it. But at the Read More ›

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Günter Bechly and Andrew McDiarmid
April 25, 2024
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Unraveling the Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny

Günter Bechly and Andrew McDiarmid
April 25, 2024
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Classifying organisms is an important function of biology. But if phylogenetics is ultimately based on a floundering theory of origins, how helpful is it to our understanding of living things? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid and paleoentemologist Gunter Bechly unpack some of the major problems with arachnid phylogeny and its implications for the common descent hypothesis. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness
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The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is the Key to Ending It

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness
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The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem. I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isn’t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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The Biden Department of Education Seems to Hate Women and Girls

Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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In a slap to the face to all American women and girls in schools and universities, the Department of Education dismantled many existing federal protections against actual sex discrimination promulgated under a civil rights law known as Title IX — which protects females against discrimination at public schools, colleges, and universities receiving federal funding — by unilaterally rewriting the law to apply to “gender,” which isn’t the same thing at all. Read More ›
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Eric H. Anderson
April 23, 2024
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

Eric H. Anderson
April 23, 2024
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A Washington Post headline recently declared that a "monumental experiment suggests how life on earth may have started." The reality, however, is far more sobering. In this episode of ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with accomplished medical engineer and origin of life author, Robert Stadler, to discuss what this new research actually shows and the relevance to abiogenesis. Read More ›