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The Living Nano-Factory: Terrell Clemmons; April 16, 2026; 3; Biology

Are We at Another Lemaître Moment?: Walter Myers III; April 16, 2026; 10; Physics

Olasky Books: A new history of public housing: Marvin Olasky; April 11, 2026; 5; Discovery Institute

Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting: Center on Human Exceptionalism; April 9, 2026; 2; Human Exceptionalism

Trump Administration Taps Treasury to Fix Student Loan Failures: Keri D. Ingraham; April 7, 2026; 5; Education

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Nothing Apocalyptic About AI, Let’s Stop the Headline Hype

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 14, 2026
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Most media content about AI today read like supermarket tabloids…sensational, shallow, and often misleading. They can confuse more than they clarify. The reasons are many: clickbait incentives, genuine ignorance, and biased enthusiasm from those selling AI products. Most of the authors of these articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software. Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.

Video

Nature’s Fitness for the Human Body: The Center for Science and Culture; April 6, 2026; Intelligent Design

America’s Founders and Intelligent Design: The Center for Science and Culture; March 30, 2026; Intelligent Design

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Shrinking the Department of Education on The Tony Kinnett Cast: American Center for Transforming Education; March 23, 2026; Education

Endowed by Our Creator Trailer: The Center for Science and Culture; March 17, 2026; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

Eric Esau on Directing The Story of Everything

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 13, 2026}

NASA’s recent Artemis II mission pushed the limits of human possibility with a record-breaking crewed trip to the moon. Movies like Project Hail Mary and Disclosure Day are exploring the intriguing idea of extraterrestrial life. The U.S. government promises to release a trove of UFO data in the near future. It’s a great time to be asking the big questions about the universe! On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Eric Esau to the show to discuss his latest film, The Story of Everything, a cinematic exploration of the scientific evidence for a mind behind the universe. The film brings the arguments of Dr. Stephen Meyer’s book Return of the God Hypothesis to life through stunning footage and cutting-edge animation, as well as engaging interviews with over 20 …

Did First Life Come From Space? Not Likely, Says Astrobiologist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 10, 2026}

On today’s classic ID the Future out of the vault, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez and host Casey Luskin discuss the idea of undirected panspermia. Gonzalez explains the basic idea and what the best current evidence says about its plausibility. The occasion is his chapter on panspermia in the anthology The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Undirected panspermia is the idea that the first life on our planet came from outer space, carried by chance processes from a faraway living planet on space dust, asteroids, or comets either from within our solar system, or from another star system to here. The idea of panspermia was inspired by the extreme difficulty of …

Evolving Rights? Darwinism’s Impact on American Life and Government

_{John G. West
April 8, 2026}

The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding creed, reminding us time and again that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But for too long now, science has been misused to overturn the ideas found in our nation’s founding principles. Is there hope for recovering these truths anew? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is joined again by Dr. John West to conclude a discussion about West’s latest book Endowed By Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. First, Dr. West unpacks the bad news: how science has been misused to attack the truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. This shift began with pre-Darwinian scientific racism and intensified with Darwin’s theory of evolution, used to …

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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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