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Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Bruce Gordon; June 24, 2026; 24; Physics

Honestly, Most Humans Don’t Want Insect Burgers: Denyse O’Leary; June 23, 2026; 3; Zoology

The Makings of Americans: John G. West; June 20, 2026; 4; Religion and Civic Life

Happy Non-Gestating Parents’ Day!: Bruce Chapman; June 19, 2026; 1; Citizen Leadership

The New Department of Education Agreements That Just Gave More Power to the People: Keri D. Ingraham; June 17, 2026; 5; Education

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Canadian Town Grants Rights to Trees

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2026
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Human Exceptionalism}

In Quebec, a small town has granted “rights” to trees. Well, adios to wood for houses and paper then, and kiss your Christmas trees goodbye. Look, I know that this is only a small town. But scores of municipalities throughout the West have signed onto or enacted some form of nature rights. So have several nations.

Video

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses the Education Freedom Landscape in America on Futures Edge

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

The UFO Disclosure: What Does It Mean for God?: Casey Luskin; June 9, 2026; Intelligent Design

Endowed with the Image of God — Nancy Pearcey: Nancy Pearcey; June 8, 2026; Faith & Science

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Podcast

DNA’s Partner in the Dance of Life

_{Thomas E. Woodward
June 22, 2026}

Many of us have heard about one of the biggest discoveries in modern biology: the discovery of the information code embedded in DNA. But perhaps an even bigger discovery than that would be that DNA isn’t running the show by itself. A second revolution is underway centered around a hidden layer of information beyond DNA that helps direct the development of every living thing. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Tom Woodward to the show to discuss his new book, co-authored with Dr. James Gills: Epigenetics and the Architect: Evidence of Design at the Frontier of Biology. In Part 1 of a two-part discussion, Dr. Woodward describes a second revolution in biology that is currently unfolding beyond the initial discovery of the DNA double helix. DNA has long …

The Evaporating Promise of AGI: An Economist’s View

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 19, 2026}

ID The Future listeners now get to enjoy two episodes each month 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 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, all concepts that are central to the theory of intelligent design. Enjoy …

Mind Over Models: An Economist’s Take on AI Speculation

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 19, 2026}

In this bingecast installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes economics professor and author Gary Smith to discuss the hype around artificial intelligence and its impact on the market. Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Ponoma College and a frequent contributor to Mind Matters News. Smith argues that generative AI, embodied in services like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, exhibits many characteristics of past market bubbles, including excessive hype, lack of profitability, and unrealistic expectations. Smith holds that generative AI models have limited practical economic value. They may be good at finding statistical patterns but struggle to distinguish meaningful, useful correlations from coincidental ones. Smith describes the …

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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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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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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An Evening with Dr. Keri D. Ingraham

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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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