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Revisiting Dover in Light of C. W. Howell’s Book: William A. Dembski; February 5, 2026; 13; Intelligent Design

When the Mind is Freed from the Brain: Andrew McDiarmid; February 4, 2026; 3; Neuroscience & Mind

Lawsuits Delay Homeless Reforms and Leave People on the Streets: Marsha Michaelis; February 4, 2026; 5; Homelessness

Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain: Wesley J. Smith; February 4, 2026; 4; Human Exceptionalism

Humans Create, AI Amalgamates. Here’s Why It Matters: Andrew McDiarmid; February 2, 2026; 5; Technology

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New Poll Shows Most Americans Admire America’s Founding, But Reject Its Ideas

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“The death of American patriotism appears to have been greatly exaggerated,” says political scientist Dr. John West, author of the new report How Americans View the American Founding. “Despite a torrent of negativity in recent years about America’s Founders, most Americans still revere them.”

Video

How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God

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

How Common Sense Points to God: The Center for Science and Culture; January 19, 2026; Intelligent Design

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero: Center on Wealth & Poverty; January 8, 2026; Energy

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Podcast

Terminal Lucidity: When the Mind Outlasts the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
February 2, 2026}

Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? On today’s ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes to the show neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor, co-author with Denyse O’Leary of the recent book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, and Alexander Batthyany, a leading researcher on terminal lucidity and author of Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death. The trio begins a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity: what it is, what the evidence shows, and how it relates to debates about consciousness, mind, and human identity. In Part 1, Batthyany begins by defining terminal lucidity as a phenomenon where individuals nearing death experience a return of …

The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

_{Howard Glicksman
January 30, 2026}

When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, host Eric Anderson begins a two-part conversation with physician Howard Glicksman about some of the remarkable engineering challenges that have to be solved to produce and maintain living organisms such as ourselves. Glicksman is co-author with systems engineer Steve Laufmann of the book Your Designed Body, an exploration of the extraordinary system of systems that encompasses thousands of ingenious and interdependent engineering solutions to keep us alive and ticking. In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! But …

The Importance of Human Wisdom in AI Policy

_{Robert J. Marks II
January 29, 2026}

On this episode of Mind Matters News, we’re wrapping up our conversation with Dr. Donald Wunsch on his experiences with AI in his recent article in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine about artificial general intelligence. This is the sixth part of our conversation with Dr. Wunsch. If you’ve not listened to the earlier portions, you can do so at the links below. This portion of the discussion covers several key topics, including the regulation of AI at federal versus state levels, with Wunsch arguing for certain uniform nationwide regulations while acknowledging appropriate roles for states. The conversation also addresses AI’s energy demands and infrastructure requirements. Marks and Wunsch discuss how all major AI advances have originated from human intellect …

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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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Revisiting Dover in Light of C. W. Howell’s Book

When the Mind is Freed from the Brain

Lawsuits Delay Homeless Reforms and Leave People on the Streets

Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain

Humans Create, AI Amalgamates. Here’s Why It Matters

New Poll Shows Most Americans Admire America’s Founding, But Reject Its Ideas

Video

How Logic Points to God

How to Build a Baby

How Common Sense Points to God

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero