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High-Speed Insect Brain Gives Evidence of Design

_{Eric Cassell
November 5, 2026
5
Intelligent Design}

An important element that enables the enhanced processing involves microsaccades. In humans, these are small involuntary eye movements.

Doctor’s Diary: The Platypus as an Icon of ID

_{Geoffrey Simmons
November 6, 2026
5
Intelligent Design}

Maybe the platypus was deliberately designed to show doubters that that designer can do “whatever I want, whenever I want, and however I want.”

Assisted Suicide, Here We Come

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 6, 2026
2
Bioethics}

The primary hope of preventing legalization in these states rests with the disability rights community.

AI Chatbots Pose Unique Dangers for Young People

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 7, 2026
10
Technology}

“Just say no, I don’t want my child in a school that has this. Big parents meeting. We don’t want it. Every school. And things will change.”

Fostering Relationships Despite Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 6, 2026
13
Psychology}

MIT psychologist Dr. Sherry Turkle has been observing the effects of chatbot use on dozens of people, young and old.

SETI, Fermi Paradox Are Next-Door Neighbors of ID

_{Paul Nelson
November 5, 2026
2
Astronomy}

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.

Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery

_{Peter Biles
November 5, 2026
5
Intelligent Design}

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do.

ID the Future

with Andrew McDiarmid

Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)

_{2287
Forrest M. Mims III
November 6, 2026}

Rolex is well-known the world over for crafting high-quality, innovative time-pieces. But did you know they also award funds to people with innovative ideas in science and technology? On this classic ID The Future out of the vault, Texan engineer, writer, and self-taught scientist Forrest M. Mims recounts his experience of winning a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1993 for his innovative proposal to track the ozone layer through a worldwide ground-based network that utilized his own homemade ozone instruments. Mims discusses the work that led to the honor, the memorable trip to Switzerland to collect the award, and how the Rolex Award propelled his career in science.

What Physics and Math Reveal About Unseen Dimensions of Reality

_{2286
Robert J. Marks
November 4, 2026}

Today’s episode of ID The Future comes from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Mind Matters regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin of information, and the things that make us uniquely human, all concepts that are central to the theory of intelligent design. Enjoy today’s offering of Mind Matters News! When we are asked to point to heaven, we point up. But that’s not where heaven is. That’s outer space. Today on the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks shares a lecture he recently gave in his Baylor University course Multidimensional Signal Analysis entitled “Where is Heaven?” The speculative talk approaches the concept of multiple dimensions from mathematical and theological angles to ask whether heaven might exist in dimensions beyond the ones we can perceive.

Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? An Award-Winning Engineer Answers

_{2285
Stuart Burgess
November 2, 2026}

Is the natural world full of flawed, makeshift designs, as some critics of intelligent design have argued? Or are living things far more ingeniously engineered than we’ve been led to believe? On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid is pleased to bring you a conversation with award-winning British engineer and designer Dr. Stuart Burgess, a senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and author of the book Ultimate Engineering. Dr. Burgess has spent decades studying engineering design, both in human technology and in humans themselves. And his work has led him to challenge the popular claim that biology is full of poor design. In this conversation, originally recorded for the Truthful Hope podcast, host Jacob Vasquez talks with Burgess about the so called bad design argument and what engineering principles can tell us about the evidence for intelligent design in nature.

Latest Videos

The Immortal Mind with Michael Egnor

_{The Center for Science and Culture
October 5, 2026
Intelligent Design
Secrets of the Human Body}

Can your mind survive if your brain is severely damaged? Acclaimed neurosurgeon Michael Egnor delves into what the science shows, drawing on research of near death experiences and minimally conscious individuals.

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

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2026
Intelligent Design}

What happens when the scientific story you’re given seems to leave no room for God? Dr. Brian Miller grew up with a belief in God, but everything changed when he entered MIT and later pursued a PhD in physics at Duke University.

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Can the Mind Be Explained by the Brain?

_{The Center for Science and Culture
September 22, 2026
Intelligent Design
Secrets of the Human Body}

Is the human mind fully explained by the physical brain? Acclaimed neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explores why there may be a lot more going on with our minds than we think in this episode of Secrets of the Human Body.

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Dr. Stephen Meyer Answers the Biggest Questions About God & Science

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 7, 2026
Intelligent Design}

What happens when you follow the evidence wherever it leads? Dr. Kevin Klar sits down with Dr. Stephen Meyer to explore some of the biggest questions at the intersection of science, philosophy, Christianity, and the search for truth.

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Intelligent Design

Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery

_{Peter Biles
November 5, 2026
5
Intelligent Design}

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do.

But WHY Does ID Predict Ultimate Engineering?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 3, 2026
3
Intelligent Design}

A possible objection to Dr. Burgess’s case for ID might be that the apparent superb design of the human body is what you’d expect from evolution.

Immanent Agency: Evolution by Design, After All

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 30, 2026
9
Intelligent Design}

Agency theory as proposed certainly is not “magic,” but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework.

Materialists Grapple with the Reality of Purpose

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 30, 2026
2
Intelligent Design}

Twentieth-century materialism treated living organisms as reducible machines governed strictly by Newtonian physics and simple genetic mechanics.

Historical Sciences

Origin of Life

Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026
5
Origin of Life}

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd.

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026
5
Origin of Life}

The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

_{Winston Ewert
September 6, 2026
5
Origin of Life}

But what if instead of keyboards, the familiar monkeys were drawing Scrabble tiles?

Evolution

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 2, 2026
4
Evolution}

Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection.

Decline and Fall of Dawkins’s Meme Concept

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 1, 2026
5
Evolution}

The term eventually became a general handle for the manipulation and transmission of images on the internet.

Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026
7
Evolution}

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning.

Paleontology

Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations

_{Casey Luskin
August 12, 2026
10
Paleontology}

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life.

“Weirdest Theory Yet” for the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
August 6, 2026
5
Paleontology}

First the Oxygen Theory, now the Feces Theory. But how much experience do we really have with feces creating new genetic information?

Neanderthal Babies Developed Like Modern Humans

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2026
2
Paleontology}

Don’t miss the words of Professor Uthmeier: “both human forms.” What he’s saying is that both Neanderthals and modern humans were “human forms.”

Cosmology

Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery

_{Peter Biles
November 5, 2026
5
Intelligent Design}

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do.

Matt Dillahunty and His “Surveys”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2026
5
Cosmology}

Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature.

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026
4
Intelligent Design}

True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information.

Human Origins

Teddy Roosevelt Erred on Neanderthals

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2026
5
Human Origins and Anthropology}

Just recently, paleontologists have found Neanderthal wooden tools (62-40 kya) preserved in stone.

Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, Needs Them Badly

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2026
6
Human Origins and Anthropology}

Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man.

Biological Origins Is Entering a Surreal Stage

_{Science & Culture
August 14, 2026
2
Human Origins and Anthropology}

No biological history and no biological beginning: are you seeing the trend? Both seem to be responses to being battered by the evidence.

Archaeology

More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 5, 2024
5
Archaeology}

This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for.

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024
5
Archaeology}

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being.

Dallas Conference: Archaeology & the Life of Jesus

_{Titus Kennedy
January 19, 2024
1
Archaeology}

My presentation will explore archaeological discoveries illuminating a major event in the life of Jesus — his trial in Jerusalem.

History of Science

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2026
6
History of Science}

Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution.

What C. W. Howell Left Out of His “History” of ID

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 17, 2026
2
History of Science}

I conclude my conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin about his critique of a recent book from New York University Press, by C. W. Howell.

Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026
6
History of Science}

The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion.

Geology

Choose Your Own Doomsday, Scientists Advise

_{Science & Culture
October 18, 2026
5
Geology}

In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called “The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code.”

As an Idea, the “Anthropocene” Era Is Dead

_{Science & Culture
November 25, 2025
3
Geology}

In a world where pundits regularly accuse us all of being too anthropocentric, the naming of a new geological epoch would enshrine that view forever in science.

The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2025
11
Geology}

Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there?

Life Sciences

Plant Cognition Defies Evolutionary Hierarchy

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026
5
Life Sciences}

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition.

The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 19, 2026
5
Life Sciences}

The need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants.

Fireweed: An Example of Intelligent Latent Design

_{Eric Hedin
February 5, 2025
7
Life Sciences}

The photo with fireweed in the foreground at the top of this article was taken by my father, Robert Hedin, at Mount Shuksan in Washington State.

Neuroscience

What Makes a Mind? An Old Question Becomes Urgent

_{Walter Myers III
November 4, 2026
5
Neuroscience & Mind}

Suri and McClelland state their case plainly. “Interactions between neurons are the engine of the mind,” they write.

Book on “Brain Evolution” Hasn’t Aged Well

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2026
5
Neuroscience & Mind}

The first problem they mention is magnified. We haven’t got anywhere near figuring out “how the brain works.”

NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2026
3
Neuroscience & Mind}

If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear?

Medicine

Journal Would Redefine Medicine to Suit Politics

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 20, 2026
5
Medicine}

The authors support a sociological definition of “infertility” propounded by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.

Beware of These Two Sources of Bad Medical Advice

_{Science & Culture
September 30, 2026
3
Medicine}

The bots are more likely to accept planted nonsense if it appears in clinical documents — not unlike some people we know, to be honest.

Real Science, Medicine Behind Oppenheimer’s Demon

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2026
2
Medicine}

Novelist Geoffrey Simmons explains how he drew on his background as an ER doctor and disaster preparedness expert to make his story real and plausible.

Biology

Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size

_{David Coppedge
November 3, 2026
8
Biology}

Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning.

Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026
7
Evolution}

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning.

Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum

_{David Coppedge
October 27, 2026
7
Evolution}

How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution.

Physical Sciences

Physics

Matt Dillahunty and His “Surveys”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2026
5
Cosmology}

Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature.

Anthropic Design: Conservation Laws and Life

_{Eric Hedin
October 8, 2026
7
Physics}

In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics.

So, You Say No Cosmologists Ever Made This Claim?

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026
6
Cosmology}

Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments.

Chemistry

Remarkable Properties of Sunlight and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2026
2
Intelligent Design}

“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.”

Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit for Advanced Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 16, 2026
2
Biochemistry}

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life.

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026
5
Origin of Life}

The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures

Astronomy

SETI, Fermi Paradox Are Next-Door Neighbors of ID

_{Paul Nelson
November 5, 2026
2
Astronomy}

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.

Little Green Men? A Test for the Design Inference

_{Winston Ewert
November 2, 2026
3
Astronomy}

On August 6, 1967, a student named Jocelyn Bell (later Jocelyn Bell Burnell) discovered a strange radio signal coming from space.

Say Goodbye to OOL “‘Get Out of Jail Free Card”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026
4
Astronomy}

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years.

Fine-Tuning

Remarkable Properties of Sunlight and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2026
2
Intelligent Design}

“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.”

Answering Objections to Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 28, 2026
3
Fine-tuning}

Fine-tuning strongly favors theism because it predicts a life-permitting order in advance, while naturalism only retrofits explanations after the fact.

New Light on Dark Energy

_{Eric Hedin
August 17, 2026
7
Cosmology}

Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power.

Earth Sciences

Geophysics

Aurora Borealis: Scientific and Aesthetic Design

_{Casey Luskin
May 12, 2024
9
Astronomy}

You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes.

Geoengineering on an Intelligently Designed Planet

_{Tova Levengood
August 30, 2023
4
Intelligent Design}

Scientists are still discovering how many systems, controls, and other aspects of planetary fine-tuning are in place to ensure that we have abundant life.

No Iron, No Life: Design in Iron Availability

_{Science & Culture
January 25, 2022
9
Biology}

As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work.

Environment

Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2026
4
Environment & Climate}

Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features.

Great Science Cancellation Continues

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025
3
Scientific Freedom}

In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound.

COSM Will Feature Nobel Laureate John F. Clauser

_{Science & Culture
September 12, 2025
5
Physics}

Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different.

Rare Earth

Stephen Meyer on the Meaning of Artemis II Mission

_{David Klinghoffer
April 8, 2026
3
Rare Earth}

Aboard the lunar spacecraft, astronaut Victor Glover spoke movingly about what some have called our Privileged Planet.

Study: Geological Habitability Parameters

_{Casey Luskin
August 14, 2024
8
Rare Earth}

One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic.

Earth and Mars — A Rare Gem and a Sharp Contrast

_{Eric Hedin
August 5, 2024
9
Rare Earth}

Apparently, simple living organisms must exist for eons on a planet before more advanced life can thrive.

Planetology

How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 15, 2026
2
Planetology}

Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely.

The Search for ETs: Keeping Hope Alive

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 15, 2025
5
Planetology}

The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science?

Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2025
3
Planetology}

The ultimate purpose in granting such rights would be to disincentivize investments in space exploration and keep us Gaia-bound.

Culture

Human Exceptionalism

Nature Rights — Now Coming to the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2026
4
Human Exceptionalism}

The potential harm to human thriving and to our self-perception as an exceptional species cannot be overstated.

Ice with That? Latest Madness from Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 24, 2026
7
Human Exceptionalism}

Ice has no agency. It is frozen water. Water contains minerals and other elements. Do they have rights, too?

Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026
5
Human Exceptionalism}

We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving.

Arts

AI Empowers Creativity and Creates Work

_{Nathan Jacobson
November 3, 2026
12
Arts}

Work is not in limited supply. There is always and forever more to do. The Sabbath is a gift to rest from one’s work, because we are finite and the work is not.

What Could Orwell’s Novel-Writing Machine Do?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2026
4
Arts}

If masses of data could be collected and organized according to rules, formula fiction could be automated.

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 28, 2026
4
Evolution}

Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once

Ethics

Howell Scrubs Fake Quote Without Coming Clean

_{Science & Culture
October 22, 2026
3
Ethics}

The ethical thing would have been to apologize and admit the seriousness of his mistake. His smoking gun, after all, wasn’t just a dud. It was imaginary.

What Is a Person, and How Do We Know?

_{Jacob Vazquez
October 14, 2026
4
Faith & Science}

The characteristics invoked in the abortion debate — consciousness, rationality, and intrinsic human dignity — function as recalcitrant facts for naturalism.

In Canada, New Push for Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 12, 2026
3
Bioethics}

Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me.

Social Sciences

Fostering Relationships Despite Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 6, 2026
13
Psychology}

MIT psychologist Dr. Sherry Turkle has been observing the effects of chatbot use on dozens of people, young and old.

Decline and Fall of Dawkins’s Meme Concept

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 1, 2026
5
Evolution}

The term eventually became a general handle for the manipulation and transmission of images on the internet.

Decolonize Science? Wokeness Scrambles Journals

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2026
5
Science Reporting}

Yes, “decolonization” does mean accepting legends in place of evidence, in order to show respect for the legends’ tellers and believers.

Faith and Science

Scientific Atheism as “20-Year-Old Sushi”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2026
4
Faith & Science}

If Richard Dawkins had answers to intelligent design’s evidence, he would have presented them, not least on his own home turf.

Atheism’s “Somewhat Different Delusion” Stalls Out

_{Terrell Clemmons
October 21, 2026
7
Faith & Science}

Imagine being such a poor evangelist for atheism that people credit you with helping them become Christians.

Faith, Science, and Simulation Theory

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2026
5
Faith & Science}

MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design.

Science Education

A Hub of Intelligent Design in Africa

_{Tova Levengood
September 3, 2026
3
Science Education}

Not only does the space enable regular study, but also it hosts ID discussion forums, faculty or departmental workshops, and club training.

Moving ID Forward: A Seminar to Remember

_{Terrell Clemmons
August 11, 2026
8
Science Education}

Graduates won’t be alone. A bonus for Seminar grads is the opportunity to be connected with a mentor who will help them navigate the hostile environment ahead.

High School Science with an ID Perspective? Yes!

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 24, 2026
2
Science Education}

Kristin Marais and Summer Edwards explain why they’re so passionate about teaching their subject and how the courses are designed with maximum flexibility.

Scientific Freedom

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2025
2}

The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — no matter how biased.

Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2025
4}

Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them.

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025
4}

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment.

Science Reporting

Decolonize Science? Wokeness Scrambles Journals

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2026
5
Science Reporting}

Yes, “decolonization” does mean accepting legends in place of evidence, in order to show respect for the legends’ tellers and believers.

Scientific American Starts Sober, Quickly Relapses

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2026
6
Science Reporting}

A proposal by University of Washington planetary scientist David Catling addresses what origin-of-life researchers call the phosphate problem.

Wall Street Journal Welcomes Story of Everything

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2026
4
Science Reporting}

My colleague asked, “Has that happened before?” Not that I recall. Is something changing? Perhaps.