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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
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, apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, human rights, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo}

On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, Declaration of Independence, democracy, dignitas, divine image, endowed by our creator, faith and science, gas chambers, gulags, Harold J. Berman, Harvard Law School, human rights, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Latin, United States}

Are Our Rights Blessed by God, or Begrudged by Government?

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 1, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, anatomy, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, church, consensus science, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, evolution, faith and science, flexor tendon, ID the Future, information theory, intelligent design, medical school, neurosurgeons, novels, podcasts, professionals, professors, Science and Culture Today, seizures, Shelby Bailey, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, students, suicide, surgery, textbooks}

Designed for Destruction? A Surgeon’s Finger on the Trigger

_{Tova Levengood
July 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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In this agonized season, Skiff read everything he could get his hands on, searching for meaning somewhere. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
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Celebrate America 250 — With the Science of the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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If you are really short on time, all these themes are compressed into in an effective image, above, that you can click on, read, and share through social media. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Berkley Gryder, BIO-Complexity, blood cells, bone cells, cells, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, egg cell, embryo, embryologists, ENCODE, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Epigenome Roadmap, Human Epigenome Project, Human Genome Project, James P. Gills, Nature (journal), nerve cells, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, skin cells, sperm, submarine, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, zona pellucida, zygote}

The Zygote Code and Other Mysteries

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 30, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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As development progresses, each cell is directed to unique use of its DNA files by the epigenetic system, which sits above the DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AlphaFold, biochemistry, central dogma, condensates, conservation, Darwinian theory, devolution, disease, DNA, evolutionarily conserved, function, genetics, genome, IDR-ome, intrinsically disordered proteins, intrinsically disordered regions, Levinthal paradox, mutations, original design, PNAS, polypeptides, proteins, proteome, sequence conservation, unevolved}

Active Matter: Newfound Order in “Disordered” Proteins

_{David Coppedge
June 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins may not be functionless after all. They appear to be multi-functional. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, blueprint of life, cells, computer keys, computer screen, DNA, epigenetic information, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, fertilized egg, genes, hardware, ID the Future, information, integrated complexity, James Gills, protein robots, supercomputer, Thomas Woodward}

Epigenome Is Biology’s Second Revolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Thomas Woodward compares the epigenetic system to a supercomputer where information is written everywhere — on the hardware, the screen, and even the keys. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, bestseller, biology, blueprint of life, cells, codes, dance partner, David Klinghoffer, diet, DNA, double helix, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, exercise, genes, genetics, health, ID the Future, information, James Gills, junk DNA, patterns, Tom Woodward}

New Book: Epigenome Is the Genome’s Sophisticated Dance Partner

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 23, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The book was published yesterday and is already Amazon's #1 bestseller in genetics. Read More ›