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In a Micbrobe, Crowdsourcing DNA: Emily Reeves; July 14, 2026; 8; Biology

A Microbe’s Decision Pathway: Emily Reeves; July 13, 2026; 10; Biology

Olasky Books: George Washington was greater than Frederick the Great: Marvin Olasky; July 11, 2026; 4; Discovery Institute

Career Exploration Should Begin Long Before College: Keri D. Ingraham; July 10, 2026; 4; Education

Move Over, SAT and ACT. There’s a Better Test: Keri D. Ingraham; July 9, 2026; 4; Education

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The Cities Hiding Homelessness for the World Cup

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July 10, 2026
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Mayor Katie Wilson and her team did not clean up the city. They simply moved the problem elsewhere, like a child shoving his toys under the bed when told to clean his room. Under Wilson’s direction, the homeless were swept out of downtown and pushed into surrounding neighborhoods and minority communities already struggling with crime and disorder.

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

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 …

Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

_{Rebekah Valerius
July 8, 2026}

If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? But if we can be rational because a rational intelligence designed life and the universe, how does that change how we should think about thinking? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his conversation with science teacher and writer Rebekah Valerius about an essay she recently wrote unpacking the argument from reason and its implications for Darwinism, materialism, and atheism. Valerius explores a fundamental problem for the worldview of naturalism, which claims that everything in existence—including the human mind—is the result of blind, physical processes like chemistry and physics. She argues that if our thoughts are merely the byproduct of …

The Anchor of Reason: Beyond Naturalism and Materialism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 6, 2026}

Before we can ask whether the universe is designed, we should first ask if we can trust the minds we’re using to investigate it. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes to the show science teacher and writer Rebekah Valerius to discuss an essay she recently penned unpacking the argument from reason and its implications for Darwinism, materialism, and atheism. This is Rebekah’s first conversation on ID The Future. She has a B.S. in biochemistry and a Master’s in apologetics. She teaches advanced chemistry, biology, and apologetics at a classical Christian school in the Dallas area. Rebekah is also an editor and contributing writer with Shadowlands Dispatch, an online journal dedicated to Christian apologetics. In Part 1 of the conversation, Valerius discusses the …

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