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Randomness by Design: William A. Dembski; September 29, 2026; 5; Philosophy

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth: Science & Culture; September 28, 2026; 3; Neuroscience & Mind

Science is proving Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists wrong: Stephen C. Meyer; September 22, 2026; 7; Intelligent Design

Another Canadian Euthanasia Horror: Wesley J. Smith; September 22, 2026; 6; Human Exceptionalism

Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of ‘Junk DNA’: Casey Luskin; September 20, 2026; 6; Intelligent Design

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HUD’s Homelessness Reforms Put Human Lives Ahead of Housing Bureaucracy

_{Michele Steeb
September 29, 2026
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Homelessness}

For more than a decade, federal homelessness policy has centered heavily on permanent housing placement, while the measures used to define and count homelessness have often obscured important differences between who is counted as homeless and who is being served through homelessness programs. Success will now be measured by whether people are getting better: recovering, working, reconnecting and reclaiming their lives.

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The Scientific Evidence He Couldn’t Ignore: Dr. Brian Miller’s Journey: Brian Miller; September 24, 2026; Intelligent Design

Why More Families Are Rethinking Four-Year College: Keri D. Ingraham on Newsmax: American Center for Transforming Education; September 15, 2026; Education

Keri D. Ingraham Encourages Parents in New School Year on Tiffany Meier Tonight: American Center for Transforming Education; September 3, 2026; Education

Wesley J. Smith Defends Medical Conscience on Family First New Zealand: Center on Human Exceptionalism; September 1, 2026; Human Exceptionalism

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A Designed Universe Makes Meaning Real, Not Illusory

_{Eric Hedin
September 28, 2026}

Why are we here? Does life, or the universe, mean anything? And if it does, what? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid explores those questions and more with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin. Using the recent documentary film The Story of Everything as a springboard for discussion, Hedin shows that cumulative scientific evidence is pointing to a purposeful universe, not a cosmic accident. Materialist narratives portray human existence as the product of mindless physical processes, something Dr. Hedin characterizes as a pandemic of meaninglessness, where human purpose is reduced to an illusion. But modern science, says Hedin, is actually telling a very different story. Key scientific discoveries of the last century point toward an intelligent mind behind the cosmos. Hedin …

Why Carbon is Finely Tuned for Life

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 25, 2026}

In his book Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe writes that in order to understand the barriers to evolution, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity.” On this classic episode of ID The Future from the vault, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back to help us do just that. In the latest installment of an ongoing series, Dr. McLatchie talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about the remarkable properties of carbon and other non-metal atoms. Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. As McLatchie notes, there are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways. And yet, here we are, able to live and study the universe around us. “On the assumption of atheism or naturalism,” says McLatchie, …

Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026}

By now, you’re likely familiar with the multiverse hypothesis, which is actually just one of dozens of cosmological models proposed to explain away the significance of a beginning to the universe and the evidence for fine-tuning. But you may not know there’s a rigorous method to evaluate these models, which can prove helpful in understanding the flaws of each. On today’s ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation about evaluating cosmological models with philosopher of physics Bruce Gordon and physicist Brian Miller. In Part 1, the conversation started with a quick review of the Dr. Stephen Meyer’s recent debate with science communicator Phil Halper before looking at key questions that the debate turns on. Bruce and Brian also gave us answers to …

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The Scientific Evidence He Couldn’t Ignore: Dr. Brian Miller’s Journey

Why More Families Are Rethinking Four-Year College: Keri D. Ingraham on Newsmax

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Scoring the Universe: A Rubric for Cosmological Design

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