American Founding

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Stephen C. Meyer
June 29, 2026
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The Twin Pillars of Constitutional Thought with Steve Meyer and Kerby Anderson

Stephen C. Meyer
June 29, 2026
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Stephen C. Meyer and Kerby Anderson discuss how America’s founders were shaped by a richly theistic, largely Christian worldview that emphasized both human dignity (as bearers of God’s image) and human depravity. Read More ›
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John West speaks at the 2026 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.
John West speaking at the 2026 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, provided by Discovery Institute.
John G. West
May 11, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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Is America a Creedal Nation? The Real Meaning of the Declaration of Independence

John G. West
May 11, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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America is unique in being founded on a shared set of ideas — especially the Declaration of Independence — which asserts human equality, natural rights, and government by consent. John G. West argues that the founders grounded these principles in both biblical belief and reason, believing humans to be equal in seven key ways, despite obvious differences. Read More ›
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The Center for Science and Culture
May 4, 2026
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Seven Ways “All Men Are Created Equal”

The Center for Science and Culture
May 4, 2026
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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In the Declaration of Independence, America’s Founders proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” But is their claim really true? And what did the Founders actually mean? In this video, learn the seven ways America’s Founders thought all humans are created equal. This video is adapted from the book Endowed by Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for Read More ›

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Discovery Institute
February 4, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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New Poll Shows Most Americans Admire America’s Founding, But Reject Its Ideas

Discovery Institute
February 4, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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"The death of American patriotism appears to have been greatly exaggerated," says political scientist Dr. John West, author of the new report How Americans View the American Founding. "Despite a torrent of negativity in recent years about America's Founders, most Americans still revere them." Read More ›
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John G. West
March 3, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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Endowed by Our Creator

John G. West
March 3, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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In this timely book, political scientist John G. West explores the original meaning of the Declaration and shows how its propositions drew support from both the Bible and early modern science. He then documents how science was later misused to overturn the Declaration’s teaching on equality, subvert its understanding of liberty, and justify the creation of a technocratic state that regulates us from cradle to grave. Finally, he reveals new scientific discoveries that are pointing us back to the truths expressed in the Declaration — and he explains why it is urgent that our culture recover them. 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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Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner
January 1, 2011
Religion and Civic Life
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Never Before in History

Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner
January 1, 2011
Religion and Civic Life
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For bulk orders of 10 or more copies of this book, contact Pam Bailey. Accounts of the American founding often focus on its roots in Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment thought. In this textbook, Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner explore how the Protestant Reformation also influenced the thinking of America’s Founders, supplying a foundation for core principles like the dignity of Read More ›