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Great News! Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses: Wesley J. Smith; August 10, 2026; 3; Medicine

On CSC’s 30th Anniversary, Let’s Take Stock of ID: Casey Luskin; August 10, 2026; 7; Intelligent Design

Olasky Books: Three interesting gusts of Augustus: Marvin Olasky; August 8, 2026; 5; Discovery Institute

It’s Essential to Educate the Next Generation About Free Enterprise: Keri D. Ingraham; July 31, 2026; 5; Education

Breaking: San Francisco Passes Legislation Expanding Drug-Free Housing for Homeless: Center on Wealth & Poverty; July 30, 2026; 2; Homelessness

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The Lancet: Wildfires the Latest “Health Emergency”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2026
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Human Exceptionalism}

In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health emergency” or crisis. Off the top of my head, I can think of several: guns, racism, immigration enforcement, global warming, abortion restrictions, and fear of future pandemics.

Video

Dr. Stephen Meyer Answers the Biggest Questions About God & Science

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

The Story Behind Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe: Michael J. Behe; August 3, 2026; Intelligent Design

Michael Behe Was Right: Darwin’s Black Box at 30: John G. West; August 2, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of Artificial Intelligence

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2026}

We are in the age of artificial intelligence. But what does that mean for the human future? Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead to stunning societal improvements such as miraculous medical breakthroughs, greater economic efficiency, and an exponential increase in human knowledge. But others worry that an out-of-human-control AI could destroy liberty, create immeasurable societal destruction, and perhaps, even unleash a technological Armageddon that brings about the end of the human race. Which is it? Or are both potential possibilities? To sort it all out for us, on this special summer edition of Humanize, Wesley asked Discovery Institute’s Robert J. Marks II to return for his third appearance. An electrical engineer by education and …

The Intelligent Design of Sleep

_{Eric Hedin
August 7, 2026}

We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important, but many of us aren’t sure exactly why. Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the processes of sleep emerge in living things? Could a gradual Darwinian process be responsible, or are the systems involved another instance of intelligent design? On this episode of ID The Future selected from the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with physicist Dr. Eric Hedin about the origin and intelligent design of sleep. In Part 1, Dr. Hedin suggests that the evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. From an evolutionary point of view, sleep is risky for the fitness of organisms. “Survival of the …

Models of Consciousness: Objections to Integrated Information Theory

_{Robert J. Marks II
August 5, 2026}

On this episode of the Mind Matters News podcast, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Robert Marks and Dr. Michael Egnor to the show to critique Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a popular mathematical model that attempts to explain consciousness through computational complexity. Dr. Marks levies his experience in computer engineering to explain the computational impossibility of the theory. He explains why the theory is virtually untestable and why it borders on pseudoscience. Dr. Egnor, meanwhile, draws on his extensive experience as a neurosurgeon to highlight the problems he sees with Integrated Information Theory. Chief among them is a significant medical flaw: patients with a condition known as hydranencephaly, who lack the very brain hemispheres IIT requires for consciousness, …

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