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Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement: Wesley J. Smith; July 17, 2026; 5; Medicine

Confusion on Evolution Is Like a Game of Telephone: Andrew McDiarmid; July 17, 2026; 3; Faith & Science

Batteries and the Grid: Hype, Hope, and Economic Reality: Jonathan Lesser; July 16, 2026; 3; Energy

What Replaces Social Security?: Nathan Lewis; July 15, 2026; 7; Economics

America Needs More Models Like the Outdoor Discovery Center Network: Keri D. Ingraham; July 15, 2026; 5; Education

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France Legalizes Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
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The West continues its love affair with the culture of death as the French National Assembly just voted to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide, overriding the Senate’s rejection. I haven’t read the bill, but here are a few notes I discerned from various media reports:

Video

Is Our Body Perfectly Designed? — Stuart Burgess

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

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses the Education Freedom Landscape in America on Futures Edge: American Center for Transforming Education; June 23, 2026; Education

Junking the Myth of Human/Chimp Similarity — Casey Luskin: Casey Luskin; June 22, 2026; Intelligent Design

Free Will Won’t Be Vanquished — Michael Egnor: Michael Egnor; June 15, 2026; Faith & Science

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Podcast

How Modern Science Resolves the Dilemma Over Evolution

_{Fr. Michael Chaberek
July 15, 2026}

If theistic evolution doesn’t work, and Darwinian evolution is scientifically inadequate, what alternative framework better explains the origin of life and the universe? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation with Father Michal Chaberek and Steve Greene, authors of a new book called Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma. In Part 1, the discussion centered on why evolution became a dilemma for many Catholics and other believers. Part 2 explores the obvious follow-up questions: what does modern science actually reveal? Does the evolutionary story satisfy the evidence? And if not, what is the more adequate explanation? Fr. Chaberek and Greene review just a few of the many lines of scientific evidence suggesting that a Darwinian process in …

Creation vs. Evolution: Re-evaluating a Catholic Dilemma

_{Fr. Michael Chaberek
July 13, 2026}

To reconcile faith and science, is it enough to say God could have used evolution? Many Christians are attracted to this idea, and it is now treated as the quasi-official Catholic position. But can this view, known as theistic evolution, really harmonize Scripture, theology, and modern science? Or is there a better approach? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with Father Michal Chaberek and Steve Greene, authors of a new book called Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma. In Part 1 of their conversation, Fr. Michal explains why there’s a dilemma in Catholic circles in the first place and how it developed over the last hundred years. Greene clarifies the terms relevant to the topic, including what is meant by evolution and theistic …

As Neo-Darwinism Fails, Vitalism Makes a Comeback

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2026}

Vitalism is the age-old idea that living things possess a vital force – some fundamental element that generally does not exist in non-life. As a Darwinian paradigm took hold of the natural sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, vitalism fell out of favor. But as writer and teacher Daniel Witt reports on this classic episode of ID The Future from the vault, a willingness to flirt with vitalism seems to be growing in certain scientific circles. First, Daniel explains what vitalism is and why it fell out of favor. Then he discusses recent attempts from evolutionary scientists to appeal to naturalistic processes to explain the vital force found in organisms. The new trend, says Daniel, is a tacit admission that the vitalists were on to something, an …

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