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Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design: Granville Sewell; March 5, 2026; 8; Intelligent Design

God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters in April!: Science & Culture; March 4, 2026; 3; Intelligent Design

Want to Boost U.S. Affordability? Get Rid of Tariffs: Paul Teller; March 3, 2026; 1; Economics

A Renewed Vision for American Education: Keri D. Ingraham; March 2, 2026; 4; Education

Internationalists Want WHO to Have Power Beyond Mere Guidance: Wesley J. Smith; February 26, 2026; 2; Human Exceptionalism

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Supreme Court Prevents California Schools from Hiding Kids’ Gender Confusion from Parents

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2026
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Human Exceptionalism}

California reprehensibly enacted a law that prohibits school administrators and teachers from informing parents about their child’s gender confusion. It is almost beyond belief that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals quashed a trial court injunction against the law — but then again, it is the Ninth Circuit.

Video

COSM Session: Educating the Tech Workforce: American Center for Transforming Education; February 19, 2026; Education

How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; February 2, 2026; Intelligent Design

Stopping the Sweep Didn’t Fix Anything at Seattle’s Ballard Encampment: Kevin Dahlgren; January 28, 2026; Homelessness

How Logic Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; January 26, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

Irreducible Intelligence: Why AI Imitation is Not Functional Knowledge

_{Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026}

Now, ID The Future listeners will get to enjoy a new episode each month (as well as a bingecast archive episode) from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of the Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. The Mind Matters News podcast brings you interviews and insight from computer scientists, engineers, inventors, neurosurgeons, and other experts who bring sanity to the conversation about natural and artificial intelligence, going beyond the hype to explore the undercurrents of these important ideas. And although the Mind Matters News podcast will not often explicitly discuss intelligent design, it regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin of information, and the things that make us uniquely human, concepts that …

Jonathan Bartlett on the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations

_{Jonathan Bartlett
February 27, 2026}

On a classic episode of ID the Future out of the vault, host and evolutionary biologist Jonathan McLatchie sits down with software R&D engineer Jonathan Bartlett to discuss Bartlett’s work on the question of when genetic mutations are random versus directed. Bartlett explains that the issue isn’t an all-or-nothing affair. Often a given biological system dramatically limits the search space of possible mutations in useful ways, and then within that much more limited set of possible mutations, random processes are at play. He gives the example of antibody mutations. He argues that many biological systems show considerable evidence of having been beneficially designed for directed mutations. Why, then, are many mutations deleterious? He also has an answer for that. Tune in to learn …

Long Necks and Tall Tales: Why Samotherium Isn’t Missing Link

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
February 25, 2026}

How did the giraffe get its long neck? It sounds like the beginning of a children’s bedtime story, and it certainly has been that. But it’s also a matter of serious scientific debate, and the debate continues today. On this installment of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part discussion correcting claims of giraffe evolution with retired geneticist Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig. In Part 2, Dr. Lönnig challenges the prevailing narrative that the fossil Samotherium major serves as a transitional “missing link” in giraffe evolution. Lönnig argues that this evolutionary interpretation is contradicted by the facts. Instead, he identifies Samotherium as a “mosaic form,” an organism possessing a combination of fully developed and basic traits …

Events

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Dr. John West to Speak at Cornerstone University

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Grand Rapids, MI
Faith & Science}

Cornerstone University will host Discovery Institute Vice President and Senior Fellow Dr. John West for a Community Chapel on Wednesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. to speak on the premise of his forthcoming book, Endowed by Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. A book signing will follow in the chapel lobby. The event is free and registration is not required. To learn more, visit the Cornerstone University event page. A message from the organizers: Cornerstone University invites you to join us for an inspiring Community Chapel on March 4 at 10 a.m. featuring Dr. John G. West, vice president and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. Join us at 10 a.m. in Christ Chapel as Dr. West presents a message drawn from his newest book, …

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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Colorado
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Intelligent Design}

The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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Intelligent Design}

The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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Not Just Any Animal — Intelligent Design Education Day (Spokane)

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Great Northern University at Fourth Memorial Church
Spokane, WA
Intelligent Design}

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that our annual Intelligent Design Education Day is returning to Spokane, Washington with thanks to our hosts at Great Northern University. The question at hand this year: Are humans merely another species in the animal kingdom? We share many physical traits, instincts, and even genetics with our fellow creatures. But is that all there is to it? Are we simply an unintended evolutionary branch on the great tree of life? This year’s theme — Not Just Any Animal — will argue that humans are much more than just one of the 8+ million unique animal species on planet Earth. Our intelligence, creativity, rationality, and spirituality transcend any biological classification and confer unique rights and responsibilities. …

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