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The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God: John G. West; March 9, 2026; 4; Faith & Science

In Sickness, These Are Profiles in Courage: Wesley J. Smith; March 8, 2026; 4; Faith & Science

Want to Boost U.S. Affordability? Get Rid of Tariffs: Paul Teller; March 3, 2026; 1; Economics

A Renewed Vision for American Education: Keri D. Ingraham; March 2, 2026; 4; Education

Internationalists Want WHO to Have Power Beyond Mere Guidance: Wesley J. Smith; February 26, 2026; 2; Human Exceptionalism

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Supreme Court Prevents California Schools from Hiding Kids’ Gender Confusion from Parents

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2026
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Human Exceptionalism}

California reprehensibly enacted a law that prohibits school administrators and teachers from informing parents about their child’s gender confusion. It is almost beyond belief that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals quashed a trial court injunction against the law — but then again, it is the Ninth Circuit.

Video

COSM Session: Educating the Tech Workforce: American Center for Transforming Education; February 19, 2026; Education

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

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Podcast

The Trouble with Transhumanism: Wesley J. Smith’s Guest Appearance on Bioethics Babe

_{Arina Grossu Agnew
March 9, 2026}

Turnabout is fair play, they say. So on this episode of Humanize, Wesley is the guest, interviewed by the “Bioethics Babe,” the podcast of Center on Human Exceptionalism Fellow Arina Grossu Agnew. Arina and Wesley discuss the nature of transhumanism, its philosophical, moral, and political implications, its role as a substitute for religion, its threat to human equality, and whether we are quietly waging a war on human equality in the name of progress. Is transhumanism the next frontier of progress or a revival of eugenics in a biotech age? In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with attorney, award-winning author, and Humanize podcast host Wesley J. Smith to unpack the growing transhumanist movement, the push to engineer a “post-human” future …

Blast from the Past: Jonathan Wells Gets Politically Incorrect About Darwinism

_{Jonathan Wells
March 6, 2026}

Perhaps no one in the intelligent design research community of recent decades was more qualified to tackle the debate over Darwinism and design than Dr. Jonathan Wells. We lost Dr. Wells in 2024, but his work lives on in his groundbreaking books, articles, interviews, and even a full-length online course. Today’s ID The Future out of the vault takes us all the way back to the summer of 2006 when Discovery Institute’s Director of Communications Rob Crowther interviewed Dr. Wells about his new book of the time, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Senior Italian geneticist Giuseppe Sermonti has called Darwinism the “’politically correct’ of science,” — that is, something that is held not because it is true but rather because …

Irreducible Intelligence: Why AI Imitation is Not Functional Knowledge

_{Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026}

Now, 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, concepts that …

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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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Not Just Any Animal — Intelligent Design Education Day (Spokane)

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Great Northern University at Fourth Memorial Church
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Intelligent Design}

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that our annual Intelligent Design Education Day is returning to Spokane, Washington with thanks to our hosts at Great Northern University. The question at hand this year: Are humans merely another species in the animal kingdom? We share many physical traits, instincts, and even genetics with our fellow creatures. But is that all there is to it? Are we simply an unintended evolutionary branch on the great tree of life? This year’s theme — Not Just Any Animal — will argue that humans are much more than just one of the 8+ million unique animal species on planet Earth. Our intelligence, creativity, rationality, and spirituality transcend any biological classification and confer unique rights and responsibilities. …

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