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Has Farina Refuted Us on the Bacterial Flagellum?: Jonathan McLatchie; August 20, 2026; 5; Intelligent Design

Learning from the History of Artificial Life: Winston Ewert; August 19, 2026; 5; Computational Sciences

The Rise of Socialism Starts in the Classroom: Keri D. Ingraham; August 18, 2026; 2; Education

Scientists Creating “Artificial Life” in Their Labs Promise World-Changing Benefits — but Are They Playing God?: Casey Luskin; August 17, 2026; 4; Technology

Discovery Institute’s COSM Technology Summit Returns to Arizona with an AI “Reality Check”: Discovery Institute; August 14, 2026; 2; Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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Beware, Broad Semiconductor Tariffs Would Make Everything More Expensive

_{Paul Teller
August 18, 2026
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Economics}

The Trump administration has consistently implemented (and recently lowered) Section 232 tariffs on industries critical to America’s economic and national security, including aluminum and steel. But as it considers similar action on semiconductors, we face a fundamentally different challenge.

Video

Michele Steeb Talks HUD’s Treatment First Toolkit on NTD Newsroom

Stop Treating Homeless People Like Outlaws. It’s Killing Them: Marsha Michaelis; August 11, 2026; Homelessness

Dr. Stephen Meyer Answers the Biggest Questions About God & Science: Stephen C. Meyer; August 7, 2026; Intelligent Design

Keri D. Ingraham Talks Free Enterprise on NTD Evening News: American Center for Transforming Education; August 3, 2026; Education

Kevin Dahlgren Discusses Skid Row on Newsmax: Center on Wealth & Poverty; August 3, 2026; Homelessness

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Podcast

An Oncologist’s Journey Out of Scientific Atheism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 17, 2026}

Can a blind, evolutionary process account for who we are and why we’re here? Is there anything beyond this life? On this ID The Future, enjoy a conversation with veteran oncologist, author, and speaker Dr. Stephen Iacoboni. Iacoboni has wrestled with these questions for more than forty years as a medical oncologist. For many years he was a committed scientific atheist, content that science could answer all the big questions. But through the experiences of his patients and after noticing the growing cracks in naturalistic explanations, Dr. Iacoboni rejected his atheism for belief in God. In this conversation, originally aired on the Ex-Skeptic podcast and hosted by Jana Harmon, Dr. Iacoboni shares his journey from childhood faith to scientific atheism and back to theistic …

Sleeping and Waking, By Design

_{Eric Hedin
August 14, 2026}

Are we to credit an unguided evolutionary process for the gift of sleeping and waking? Or are these intricate systems further evidence of design? On this ID The Future selected out of the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin on the intelligent design of sleep. In Part 2, the pair dig deeper into the purpose of sleep and why it’s so essential to living organisms. They also look at why it’s unlikely that a gradual Darwinian process can be credited for the origin of sleeping and waking, and why intelligent design is a better explanation. In an effort to pierce the mystery, some scientists have posited that organisms came prepackaged to sleep, and that we only needed to evolve wakefulness. But Hedin thinks the process of waking up is an even …

The Biochemical Challenge to Darwinian Evolution Turns 30

_{Michael J. Behe
August 12, 2026}

In 2026, one of the most influential books on science in our lifetime turns 30 years old. It’s Darwin’s Black Box, written by biochemist and professor Michael J. Behe. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with Dr. Behe as we celebrate the milestone, revisit the book’s major insights, and examine its staying power over the last three decades. Another thing Darwin’s Black Box introduced to readers is the concept of irreducible complexity, an idea that, in Behe’s own words, can give us confidence that Darwin’s own criterion of failure has been met. In this segment, Behe discusses why irreducible complexity is crucial to the design of living things. He explains that the concept still stands strong today, despite multiple attempts to …

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Has Farina Refuted Us on the Bacterial Flagellum?

Learning from the History of Artificial Life

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