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Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive: Andrew McDiarmid; October 17, 2025; 2; Intelligent Design

Darwin’s Orphan Foe: Jonathan Witt; October 17, 2025; 9; Genetics

The World Series of religion and baseball: Marvin Olasky; October 11, 2025; 4; Discovery Institute

Jonathan Choe Presents Infiltration of Homelessness Industry Report to President: Center on Wealth & Poverty; October 8, 2025; 1; Homelessness

Keri D. Ingraham Delivers Speech to Students at Hillsdale College: American Center for Transforming Education; October 8, 2025; 2; Education

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New Report: How Extremists Infiltrated Homelessness Advocacy in America

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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Capital Research Center (CRC) released a new report in cooperation with Discovery Institute exploring how extremist ideological movements are exploiting America's homelessness crisis, which can include hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people on any given night.

Video

Little Saigon Left Behind: Crime, Chaos, and Political Silence

Keri D. Ingraham Talks AI in Education on NTD News: American Center for Transforming Education; September 8, 2025; Education

Engineered for Oxygen: The Center for Science and Culture; September 1, 2025; Intelligent Design

Wesley J. Smith Discusses Mental Health Outcomes for Abortion on The Ann and Phelim Scoop: Center on Human Exceptionalism; August 28, 2025; Human Exceptionalism

The Common Woodpecker: Chance or Design?: Raymond Bohlin; August 25, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

Restoring Love and Community in a Divided World: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Post

_{Michael Egnor
October 16, 2025}

Most of us would agree that in recent years, our society has grown more acrimonious, reactive, and violent. What role does technology play in this trajectory? And what can be done about it? On this episode, host Dr. Michael Egnor speaks to Dr. Stephen Post, author of the new book Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace. Dr. Post discusses his views on the current state of society and his goal to write a book that offers a different, more loving outlook. The book explores 10 expressions of love, including compassion, an approach Dr. Post calls “carefrontation” (a mix of care and confrontation), creativity, mirth, and simple helping behaviors. He argues that we need to re-embrace values like forbearance, forgiveness, and respect in order to heal the …

Dr. Howard Glicksman: Why Evolution Fails to Explain Life’s Design

_{Howard Glicksman
October 15, 2025}

In a universe of non-living space and matter, life is incredibly rare. And in order to stay alive, humans and other organisms have to overcome a myriad of engineering challenges. Just how is this done? And more to the point, is an evolutionary process capable of producing the solutions to these many challenges? On today’s episode, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Howard Glicksman, co-author with engineer Steve Laufmann of the new book Your Amazing Body. The book explores some of your body’s greatest marvels, including how your hearing and vision work, how you coordinate your movements, and — perhaps the greatest miracle of them all — how you developed from a single cell at conception. In Part 1 of this conversation, Dr. Glicksman set the stage by …

Michael Egnor M.D. and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025}

The existence of the human soul is usually described as a matter of faith unprovable by science. But is that true? What if evidence exists that we each do indeed have souls and even, that life continues after death? Whether we have souls and what happens to us after death — obliteration, reincarnation, heaven, hell — is a question about which humans have obsessed for as long as we have records of our existence. Indeed, it may be the ultimate question, for as a suicidal Hamlet laments in Shakespeare’s most immortal soliloquy: To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause… Wesley’s guests on today’s program respond …

Events

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Recent Victories & Advancements in K-12 Education

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Mercer Island Community & Event Center
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Join Discovery Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education to gain an up-close look at the historic victories occurring to advance education freedom, entrepreneurship, innovation, parental rights, and public education reform!

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2026 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

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Join us at the 8th-Annual Dallas Conference on Science & Faith hosted by Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, TX, on February 28. The conference will feature keynote speaker and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, along with philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, author and filmmaker John G. West, award-winning engineer Stuart Burgess, and many others. Continue reading for more information on the conference theme, confirmed speakers, and recommended hotels. Registration opens November 1. Photo courtesy of Ben Carson Keynote Speaker Dr. Benjamin S. CarsonFounder and Chairman,American Cornerstone Institute Interviewed by John G. West on “Created Equal: A Conversation about Science & Faith”. Endowed by Our Creator:Science, …

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New Report: How Extremists Infiltrated Homelessness Advocacy in America

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Keri D. Ingraham Talks AI in Education on NTD News

Engineered for Oxygen

Wesley J. Smith Discusses Mental Health Outcomes for Abortion on The Ann and Phelim Scoop

The Common Woodpecker: Chance or Design?