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The Philosophy of Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski; January 20, 2026; 34; Philosophy

Doctor’s Diary: Have We Overlooked Common Sense?: Geoffrey Simmons; January 20, 2026; 7; Intelligent Design

How to Save Iran 1-2-3: Nathan Lewis; January 16, 2026; 7; Economics

Incentives Are Wrong in Education: Keri D. Ingraham; January 12, 2026; 4; Education

Olasky Books: Benefits of Being an Outsider: Marvin Olasky; January 10, 2026; 5; Discovery Institute

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Homeless Family’s Outrageous Situation Suggests Unique Remedy

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A shocking story published Dec. 19 by Charlie Harger of KIRO News Radio tells of a 9-year-old boy living in a tent in one of Seattle’s public parks. He lives there with his parents, when they’re around. His mother is a fentanyl addict and prostitute who makes the boy wait outside in the bushes while she services clients in the tent. His father reportedly has a long criminal history.

Video

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

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Invasion of Judah: The Archaeological Evidence: Stephen C. Meyer; December 12, 2025; Intelligent Design

The Origin of Animal Body Plans: Stephen C. Meyer; December 2, 2025; Intelligent Design

Why Humans Can’t Be Replicated by AI: George Montañez; November 25, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Podcast

Bill Dembski Reveals the Hidden Cost of Information

_{William A. Dembski
January 19, 2026}

Chances are you’re already familiar with specified complexity, one of the mathematical pillars of the theory of intelligent design. There’s another pillar that is much less well known but equally vital: the law of conservation of information. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a four-part conversation with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski. The conversation unpacks Dembski’s work on the law of conservation of information and its implications for scientific theories like Darwinian evolution. In Part 1, Dr. Dembski begins by defining information fundamentally as the narrowing of possibilities, where specifying one outcome excludes others. Using his a simple analogy of location, he explains that identifying a specific place, like the town of …

Dr. Michael J. New on Abortion, the Dobbs Decision, Sidewalk Counseling, and the Annual March for Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 19, 2026}

The struggle over the legality of abortion has roiled the country for more than fifty years. On one side, the pro-life movement insists that innocent life must be protected by the government and in morality from conception to natural death. On the other, “pro-choice” advocates insist that abortion is medical care and that the decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy belongs solely to the mother and her doctor. Few issues have so bitterly divided the country for as long as abortion has, with the exceptions of Abolition and the Civil Rights movements. Pro-life advocates are often stereotyped as being merely pro-birth, that is, only caring for a baby until he or she is born. But is that true? And what drives committed pro-life advocates to expend so much time and energy …

Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 16, 2026}

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. But can we really credit a gradual evolutionary process for this remarkable system? On this classic ID The Future episode, host Andrew McDiarmid continues a three-part discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory and why instead it bears the hallmarks of a system governed by forethought and engineering. In Part 2, Dr. McLatchie delves into two more features of the sexual reproductive process: seminal fluid and sperm capacitation. He explains the role of seminal fluid in fertilization, as well as the critical changes sperm undergo to facilitate connection with an egg. McLatchie and McDiarmid also review the concept of irreducible complexity and …

Events

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Dr. Michael Egnor to Speak at Cornell University on “The Immortal Mind”

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Dr. Michael Egnor, CSC Senior Fellow and Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at Stony Brook University, will speak at Cornell University on the premise of his new book, The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. This event is sponsored by the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at Cornell University and Chesterton House and is both free and open to the public. To RSVP or to learn more, visit the Cornell events page. A message from the organizers: Although classical philosophers and theologians affirmed the existence and immortality of the human soul, modern neuroscientists generally deny that the soul exists or that it is a proper object for scientific study. The scientific evidence, however, suggests that the soul does exist and 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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The Philosophy of Intelligent Design

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How to Save Iran 1-2-3

Incentives Are Wrong in Education

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Video

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Invasion of Judah: The Archaeological Evidence

The Origin of Animal Body Plans

Why Humans Can’t Be Replicated by AI