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Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot: David Klinghoffer; June 20, 2026; 3; Intelligent Design

The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”: Denyse O’Leary; June 19, 2026; 5; Life Sciences

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

Homekey Audit Exposes California’s Real Homelessness Crisis: Failed Governance: Michele Steeb; June 15, 2026; 4; Homelessness

Dawn or Twilight? America at 250: Scott S. Powell; June 15, 2026; 7; Economics

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Happy Non-Gestating Parents’ Day!

_{Bruce Chapman
June 19, 2026
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Citizen Leadership}

The New York state legislature has passed an amended family law (Senate Bill S9316) that supplants the supposedly discriminatory terms “mother” and “father” with the expressions “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” So woke wins another battle, although most people would regard the changes as ridiculous.

Video

The UFO Disclosure: What Does It Mean for God?

Free Will Won’t Be Vanquished — Michael Egnor: Michael Egnor; June 15, 2026; Faith & Science

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

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Usha Vance’s 2nd Annual Summer Reading Challenge on Tiffany Meier Tonight: American Center for Transforming Education; June 3, 2026; Education

Keri D. Ingraham Talks the New Education Freedom Tax Credit on That Kevin Show: American Center for Transforming Education; May 29, 2026; Education

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Podcast

Stephen Meyer: New Ways to Stream and Share The Story of Everything

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 17, 2026}

The new documentary film The Story of Everything is no longer available in movie theaters, but there are now new ways to stream and share this intriguing documentary! Host Andrew McDiarmid recently caught up with our friend and colleague Dr. Stephen Meyer to ask him a few questions about how The Story of Everything has been received and the exciting new ways people can enjoy the film. Dr. Meyer points out the film’s critical and commercial success so far, holding a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and ranking 14th all-time for faith-friendly films. Its theatrical run was extended to three weeks following a strong box office performance, tying a record for Fathom-distributed releases. Dr. Meyer shares that the movie’s primary insight lies in its profound emotional and …

Still Zero: Why New Fossil Finds Don’t Solve Cambrian Explosion Mystery

_{Casey Luskin
June 15, 2026}

New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Does the new find solve the mystery of the Cambrian explosion? Are the headlines about these fossils justified? Are these in fact the long-lost ancestors of the Cambrian animals we’ve been looking for? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Casey Luskin to the show to to examine the evidence, ambiguity, and ongoing controversy surrounding newly reported Ediacaran bilaterian fossils. First, Luskin reminds us that the Cambrian explosion represents a geologically sudden appearance of diverse animal body plans and massive amounts of new biological information, a phenomenon that lacks clear evolutionary precursors in the earlier …

Stephen C. Meyer on “The Story of Everything”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2026}

In 50 BC, the great Roman statesman Cicero expressed a thought that has been echoed by thinkers down the generations: “The celestial order and beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being who deserves the respect and homage of men.” But in our own day, the evolutionary biologist and atheism proselytizer Richard Dawkins has claimed, “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” Dawkins believes that complex life and the cosmos arose through gradual, evolutionary mechanisms, not through any influence of a creator or purposeful creation. But which worldview does the scientific evidence …

Events

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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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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An Evening with Dr. Keri D. Ingraham

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The Barn at Mader Farm
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Discovery Institute}

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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