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The Latest

Yunxian Skulls Abruptly Reassigned: Casey Luskin; February 24, 2026; 10; Human Origins and Anthropology

Can the Flagellum Get Any Better? Yes! Add Gears: David Coppedge; February 24, 2026; 9; Intelligent Design

Jesse Jackson Opposed Terri Schiavo’s Intentional Death by Dehydration: Wesley J. Smith; February 18, 2026; 2; Human Exceptionalism

Olasky Books: Gnawing Senses of Conscience: Marvin Olasky; February 14, 2026; 4; Discovery Institute

More Spending, More Suffering: The Failure of America’s Homelessness Policy: Michele Steeb; February 11, 2026; 5; Homelessness

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Obama Admits Housing First was a Losing Strategy

_{Michele Steeb
February 23, 2026
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Homelessness}

Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: “The average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown … and we’re not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, ‘It’s not their fault, they should be able to do whatever they want,’ because that’s a losing political strategy.” What makes the remark notable is not merely its candor. It is the history behind it.

Video

COSM Session: Educating the Tech Workforce

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

How to Build a Baby: The Center for Science and Culture; January 21, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

On the Origin of “Tall Blondes”: Correcting the Record on Giraffe Evolution

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
February 23, 2026}

We’ve all admired the long, majestic neck of the giraffe, and the question remains: how did the giraffe get its long neck? Is it a product of an evolutionary process? Or was a process of foresight and purpose involved? Helping us unpack this today is retired geneticist Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, who challenges the traditional narrative of giraffe evolution, noting a sharp disconnect between Darwinian predictions and the actual fossil record. While neo-Darwinism, by default, expects a gradual, step-by-step progression of slight variations leading to the modern giraffe, the geological evidence tells a different story. The Problem of Stasis In Part 1, Dr. Lönnig highlights the discrepancies in the fossil record that cause the traditional Darwinian narrative to unravel. Lönnig …

Melissa Ortiz on the Disability Rights Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 23, 2026}

Disability rights is a global social and civil rights movement that advocates for equal opportunities, accessibility, and freedom from discrimination. The goal is to ensure that people with disabilities participate fully and equally in society free from barriers in employment, healthcare, architecture, and education. It has been more than thirty-five years since President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act. Yet, despite many years of advocacy, the scope, breadth, and goals of the movement are less known than activism for racial and sex equality. So, Wesley thought he would look into the movement to recount its successes and goals yet to be achieved. His guest is Melissa Ortiz, founder and principal of Capability Consulting, an award-winning speaker, and a …

No Thinking Without a Thinker: Dr. Mihretu Guta on Consciousness

_{Robert J. Marks II
February 20, 2026}

Starting this month, 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, …

Events

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Dr. John West to Speak at Cornerstone University

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Christ Chapel
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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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Colorado
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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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The Latest

Yunxian Skulls Abruptly Reassigned

Can the Flagellum Get Any Better? Yes! Add Gears

Jesse Jackson Opposed Terri Schiavo’s Intentional Death by Dehydration

Olasky Books: Gnawing Senses of Conscience

More Spending, More Suffering: The Failure of America’s Homelessness Policy

Obama Admits Housing First was a Losing Strategy

Video

How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God

Stopping the Sweep Didn’t Fix Anything at Seattle’s Ballard Encampment

How Logic Points to God

How to Build a Baby