A RAT IS A PIG IS A DOG IS A BOY - Key Persons

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• Associate Director, Center for Science & Culture

Annmarie is an active supporter of her interests and serves on a number of boards including the University of Washington Newman Center, Capital Campaign Committee for the Newman Center, the University of Dallas Board of Trustees, the University of Dallas Endowment Committee, the Advisory Board for AVM Biotechnology, the St. Alphonsus Parish School Founding Endowment Committee, Ambassador on behalf of 4US.ORG and the Discovery Institute Board of Directors.

Arjuna Gallagher is the host of the YouTube Channel called Theology Unleashed and a Hindu. He discusses Hinduism's unique perspective regarding subjects such as metaphysics, evil, and free will with Dr. Michael Egnor. They also address creation, social ethics, and the relationship of the mind and the body. Additional Resources Dr. Michael Egnor Follow Arjuna Gallagher on Facebook Subscribe to Read More ›

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• Software Architect
• Fellow, Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence

Brendan Dixon is a Software Architect with experience designing, creating, and managing projects of all sizes. His first foray into Artificial Intelligence was in the 1980s when he built an Expert System to assist in the diagnosis of software problems at IBM. Since then, he's worked both as a Principal Engineer and Development Manager for industry leaders, such as Microsoft and Amazon, and numerous start-ups. While he spent most of that time other types of software, he's remained engaged and interested in Artificial Intelligence.

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• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Justin B. A. Frederick is an Eastern Orthodox Priest. He holds an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and also studied at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he focused on Patristics. During his time at Princeton, he was an editor of the Princeton Theological Review. He is a fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture as well as a priest at St. Maximus the Confessor Orthodox Church (OCA) in Denton, Texas. He has traveled extensively in Russia, speaks Russian fluently, and ministers to the Russian community in Dallas

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• Research Coordinator

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• Washington State Auditor

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• Business Manager

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• Director, Cascadia Center

Since 2017, Bruce has served as Director of the ACES NW Network based in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington. The Network is dedicated to the acceleration of ACES (Autonomous-Connected-Electric-Shared) technology in Northwest transportation for the movement of people and goods. ACES is co-chaired by Tom Alberg, Co-Founder and managing partner of Madrona Venture Group in Seattle and Bryan Mistele, CEO/Co-Founder of INRIX global technology in Kirkland. In 2022, Bruce became the director of the newly created Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) Regional Infrastructure Accelerator. Initial funding for the Accelerator has come from the Build America Bureau of the USDOT. PNWER is a statutory public/private nonprofit created in 1991 by the U.S. states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan and the territories of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. PNWER has 16 cross-border working groups for common economic and environmental initiatives. Since 1993, Bruce Agnew led the Northwest Cascadia initiative serving as director of the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute in Seattle. The Center is a private, non-profit, public policy center engaged in regional and international transportation and technology. In 2003, Cascadia received a 10-year, $9.35 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand transportation systems among Washington, Oregon and British Columbia through public-private partnerships and innovative financing. In 2009, Seattle Magazine named Bruce "Road Warrior" in their "Power List" of community leaders for his transportation initiatives ranging from advocacy of a Deep Bore Tunnel for Seattle's Alaska Way Viaduct Replacement to innovative infrastructure financing for Puget Sound projects, passenger rail and ferries. He was awarded the "Smashed Brick" by the Canadian Consul General in 2008 for reducing barriers to cross-border trade and tourism. On the North American front, Mr. Agnew chaired an advisory committee to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) chartered by NAFTA publishing a report,"Destination Sustainability" exploring carbon taxes on trade corridors and serves on the Can Am Border Trade Alliance. From 1987-93, Mr. Agnew was Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative John Miller from Washington state's First District. Before his congressional service, Bruce Agnew was elected to two terms on the Snohomish County Council and served as President of the Puget Sound Regional Council in 1985. Mr. Agnew is a 1973 graduate of Stanford University and received his law degree from the U.C. Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) in 1977. He resides with his family in Beaux Arts Village, WA.

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• Chairman of the Board
• Cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Discovery Institute
• Discovery President

Bruce Chapman has had a long career in American politics and public policy at the city, state, national, and international levels. Elected to the Seattle City Council and as Washington State's Secretary of State, he also served in several leadership posts in the Reagan administration, including ambassador. In 1991, he founded the public policy think tank Discovery Institute, where he currently serves as Chairman of the Board and director of the Chapman Center on Citizen Leadership.

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• Mayor

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• Co - Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX

Bryan Mistele is the co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX, a leading provider of connected car services and transportation analytics. INRIX is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities in more than 88 countries around the world. Bryan started INRIX in 2004, having had more than 15 years experience building high-technology businesses and transforming industries through the power of information technology As a leader on technology and transportation issues, Bryan is a popular speaker on the future of transportation. Bryan has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Transportation Policy Project, as a member of the United States Department of Transportation's ITS Advisory Committee, and as a board member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Bryan is co-founder of ACES Northwest - a group committed to the adoption of Autonomous, Connected, Electric and Shared vehicles. Prior to INRIX, Mistele was an executive at Microsoft. Bryan holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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• President of Cogitare LLC

Byron Nutley is President of Cogitare LLC, a boutique financial and management consulting services firm. He is an active entrepreneur who has founded and led as CEO multiple tech companies that grew to over 100 employees, including nSET and iSolute. Byron has also served in senior leadership roles at a variety of other startups, from running operations at nanotech Zyvex Technologies and consulting firm Garrison Finish to CFO at blockchain technology company New Alchemy and software businesses ClipCard and FreeRein. He previously served as director of business operations at Microsoft for the Asia-Pacific region based out of Singapore, as well as on the initial Excel for Windows dev team during his 11-year career at the company. Byron received B.S. degrees in computer science and in engineering from Seattle Pacific University and an MSIA/MBA in finance and information systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

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• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
• Professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis, Missouri

Jack Collins is Professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis, Missouri. With degrees from MIT (SB, SM) and the University of Liverpool (PhD), he has been a research engineer, a church-planter, and, since 1993, a teacher. In addition to his early focus on Hebrew and Greek grammar, he also studies science and faith, how the New Testament uses the Old, and Biblical theology. He was Old Testament Chairman for the English Standard Version of the Bible, and is author of Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?: Who They Were and Why You Should Care, and Reading Genesis Well: Navigating History, Poetry, Science, and Truth in Genesis 1-11 (2018). He is currently writing commentaries on Numbers, Psalms, and Isaiah. During the 2016-17 academic year, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Carl Henry Center for Theological Understanding of Trinity International University. He and his wife have been married since 1979, and have two grown children.

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• Program Coordinator

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• Author of so Good They Can'T Ignore You

Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You and Deep Work, now runs a YouTube channel/podcast where he offers advice about how to live and work deeply and effectively in the digital age. I've consistently found his thoughts interesting, informative, and inspiring. Last week, Newport released a fifteen-minute video on "overstimulation," and talked at some length about the chemical dopamine, and how dopamine gives us the urge to do things we think will provide us with rewards. For instance, dopamine may compel us to take another inhalation of a cigarette, yank the lever of a gambling machine in Las Vegas, or even do something as apparently benign as refreshing your email tab. While there are many opinions and Read More ›

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• Racist Spokesman for Anglo - Male Superiority

The University of Sheffield's teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a "racist."

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• President
• Board Member, Discovery Institute

Cole is the President and a Portfolio Manager at Smead Capital Management. He leads the organization and its international equity portfolios. Mr. Smead also co-manages the US-equity portfolios. He is the Chairman of Smead Funds SA, the firm's Luxembourg SICAV. Cole is also the President of the Smead Funds Trust. Cole is an avid reader. He hosts the firm's podcast, A Book With Legs. He is also a guest on Bloomberg and CNBC. Mr. Smead grew up in the Seattle-area. He attended Whitman College and holds a B.A. in History and Economics from the school. Cole also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He now resides in Phoenix with his wife Kaydee and their four children.

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• Director

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• Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth & Poverty

David Foster Wallace was 34 when his magnum opus Infinite Jest appeared in 1996. He tragically took his life in 2008, but the title he's known for best remains an awe-inspiring, controversial tome. UnHerd writer Sarah Ditum wrote a great review revisiting the book in which she writes, "He did not see the future. But he saw the forces shaping the future, and understood the ways they would deform people in turn." Infinite Jest, a 1,000 plus page book with 200 pages of tedious endnotes to boot, imagines an American context not so foreign from our own where entertainment has become so powerful that it hopelessly addicts everyone who encounters it. The Internet was already budding in '96, but the inevitable Read More ›

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• Senior Fellow
• Discovery Institute Senior Fellow
• Gonzaga Law School Professor
• Law Professor at Gonzaga University School of Law
• Professor Emeritus of Law at Gonzaga School of Law
• Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

David K. DeWolf is a Professor Emeritus of Law at Gonzaga School of Law in Spokane, Washington and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. A graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, Professor DeWolf has clerked for the Honorable Stephen Bistline of the Idaho Supreme Court. He has written a briefing book for public school administrators, Teaching the Controversy: Darwinism, Design and the Public School Curriculum. On this episode of ID the Future, Robert Crowther interviews Discovery Institute senior fellow David DeWolf, a leading expert on the legalities of teaching evolution who helped shape the sample academic freedom legislation available at www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com. Dr. DeWolf explains the idea behind the academic freedom bill currently moving forward in Louisiana and what it means to teach the controversy over evolution. Should teachers have the freedom to treat Darwinism as an open and interesting question? Listen in and decide for yourself. Read More ... This week Discovery President Bruce Chapman interviews Gonzaga law school professor, and Discovery senior fellow, David DeWolf about last year's federal intelligent design trial, Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District. DeWolf is the co-author of the new book "Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision" a critique of federal Judge John E. Jones's decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, the first trial to attempt to address the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design in public schools. In this concise yet comprehensive response, Discovery Institute scholars and attorneys show how Judge Jones's Kitzmiller decision was based upon faulty reasoning, non-existent evidence, and a serious misrepresentation of the scientific theory of intelligent design. Read More ...

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• Editor
• Senior Fellow

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• President of Axion Systems, Inc

Dick Greiling is President of Axion Systems, Inc., an application software development firm located in Seattle, which he co-founded in 1986. He is also the business manager of 222 Westlake LLC, Terry & Thomas LLC, and Benson Investments LLC, family corporations which develop and own real estate in the Puget Sound region. Dick serves as treasurer of University Presbyterian Church. Prior to his work at Axion, Dick spent 12 years as a management consultant, serving such clients as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Postal Service, Air Force Systems Command, and the University of San Francisco. He received his B.S. degree from Columbia University and his M.B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. Dick and his wife Kristina live in Seattle.

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• Chairman
• Senior Fellow
• Senior Fellow and Chairman, American Center for Transforming Education

Donald P. Nielsen is a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute and Chairman of the Institute's program on public education reform. For nearly 30 years, he has devoted his life work to transforming public education. For two years, he traveled the country studying America's public education system and authored, Every School: One Citizen's Guide to Transforming Education. Mr. Nielsen was awarded the Harvard Business School's 2004 Alumni Achievement Award. In 2009, he received the Leadership Award from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

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• Scientist
• Design Researcher
• God 's Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore
• Is Director of Science Communication
• Revealing God 's Grandeur - Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church
• Scientist 's Journey into the Intelligent Design Movement
• Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute 's Center for Science
• Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
• When Catholics Argue for Intelligent Design

Dr. Ann Gauger is Director of Science Communication and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, and Senior Research Scientist at the Biologic Institute in Seattle, Washington. She received her Bachelor's degree from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington Department of Zoology. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where her work was on the molecular motor kinesin. Her research at Biologic Institute has focused on two areas: the limits of neo-Darwinism as a mechanism for change at the protein level, and evidence for the uniqueness of human origins. As Director of Science Communication, she is responsible for communicating the evidence for intelligent design to the wider public. She serves as an editor of the journal BIO-Complexity, and her scientific work has been published in Nature, Development, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Genetic Regulation of Development, In Vitro, In Vitro Cell and Developmental Biology, BIO-Complexity, and Biological Information: New Perspectives. She has coauthored the book Science and Human Origins and appeared in the documentaries, Metamorphosis, Flight, and The War on Humans. Her web posts appear regularly on Evolution News and Views, and she writes for other on-line and print publications as well. She and her husband of twenty-six years are proud parents of three young adults. On today's ID the Future, biologist and intelligent design researcher Ann Gauger tells host Eric Anderson the rest of her story about how she was drawn into the intelligent design movement. The two discuss everything from the challenges she faced making it in a male-dominated field to the evidential power of beauty in the natural world. But how did she end up in the ID movement? After stepping out of a promising career as a research scientist to focus on her family and meeting the needs of an autistic child, she assumed that her life as a scientist was behind her. But then several years later she began reading the work of Darwin skeptics and intelligent design trailblazers-Phillip Johnson, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, and others-and then she realized they were all associated with a think tank, Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, just down the street from where she lived. She eventually signed DI's Dissent from Darwin list, then a year or so after that she signed up for a regular ID newsletter, Nota Bene, signing her name "Ann Gauger, PhD." She got a phone call from someone at Discovery Institute twenty minutes later. The rest of the story is by turns comical, inspiring, and touching. Before wrapping up her story she urges young women scientists to not let themselves get pressured out of contributing just because STEM fields tend to be male dominated. And she shares a story of being accused at a public university event of lying and suppressing research evidence that supposedly supported evolutionary theory. On this ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with biologist and intelligent design proponent Ann Gauger to hear her story of how she got into the intelligent design movement and how the evidence for design has shaped her life. It begins with a lonely girl on a Kansas military base who at one point loses her Christian faith but also discovers the wonders of nature, and friendship, when she is given a horse and begins taking it for long rides in the countryside. Her intellectual journey takes her to MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and eventually into the Catholic church, where she explores becoming a nun until a conversation with echoes from the Sound of Music leads her in a different direction. Tune into hear the first part of Gauger's moving story, and come back for the second half of her conversation with host Eric Anderson. Today's episode is the first in an occasional series, Why It Matters, spotlighting leading intelligent design researchers and hearing from them about how they got into intelligent design, why they believe ID matters to our culture, and why it matters to them personally. Read More ...

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• Discovery Institute Senior Fellow
• Science After Babel: an Exercise in Self - Criticism
• the Activity of a Cell Is Like That of a Factory
• Writer, Thinker, Raconteur, and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute

David Berlinski received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Berlinski has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels. He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at such universities as Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris. In addition, he has held research fellowships at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France. Recent articles by Dr. Berlinski have been featured in Commentary, Forbes ASAP, and the Boston Review. Two of his articles, "On the Origins of the Mind" (November 2004) and "What Brings a World into Being" (March 2001) have been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing 2005 , edited by Alan Lightman (Harper Perennial), and The Best American Science Writing 2002, edited by Jesse Cohen, respectively. He is author of numerous books, including A Tour of the Calculus (Pantheon 1996), The Advent of the Algorithm (2000, Harcourt Brace), Newton's Gift (The Free Press 2000), The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky (Harcourt, October 2003), A Short History of Mathematics for the Modern Library series at Random House (2004), The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (Crown Forum, 2008), and The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements (Basic Books, 2013). On today's ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid rings up Science After Babel author David Berlinski in Paris to discuss the philosopher's latest book. Berlinski is at his cultivated best as the two discuss everything from the biblical Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern materialistic science, to his friendship with the brilliant and colorful French intellectual Marcel Schützenberger, a world-class mathematician who was self-taught and, as we learn here, came within a hair's breadth of being swept up in the Chinese Revolution. Berlinski also reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism, challenges that Berlinski says remain unanswered to this day. At the same time, Berlinski gives the devil-here Darwinism-its due. Tune in for this and more, and order your copy of Berlinski's Science After Babel here. Read More ... Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism David Berlinski June 5, 2023 Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ... Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History David Berlinski April 25, 2022 On this ID the Future, Human Nature author and polymath David Berlinski and radio host Michael Medved discuss everything from human depravity, the burning of Notre Dame, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Big Bang and a quixotic century-old pact to ban war. Berlinski argues that the case for the death of God and the case for the impending demise of human depravity have been greatly exaggerated. Contra Steven Pinker, Berlinski insists that there is little if any evidence that human evil is being steadily rolled back by the spread of secular values. Further, the idea that science has disproven God flies in the face of trends running in the opposite direction, perhaps most dramatically in the triumph of the Big Bang theory over an eternal universe model. Berlinski, who himself is not religious, insists that Whig history is bankrupt and that anyone imagining that human depravity and the God hypothesis are things of the past are themselves living in the past. Today's recording is reproduced here by permission of Michael Medved and The Michael Medved Show. Read More ... On today's ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it's a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith's Humanize podcast. On this ID the Future, host Wesley J. Smith talks with polymath and Human Nature author David Berlinski about the philosophy of mathematics, the corruption of science, the burning of Notre Dame, modern Europe's curious incapacity to build graceful, beautiful structures, and what's driving the devolution of Western society. But before any of that, Berlinski relates the dramatic story of how his parents, European Jews, escaped the Nazis only by the skin of their teeth. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation borrowed with permission from Wesley J. Smith's Humanize podcast. Today's episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Darwin skeptic David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. Here the pair discuss the fate of Europe. Then they turn again to science, and the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for Darwinism and, by implication, to any theory of biological origins restricted to purely mindless processes. Berlinski suggests that this poses a considerable challenge, tempting Robinson to ask Berlinski whether he still consider himself an agnostic. Read More ... This episode of ID the Future features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, "was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps." Robinson also asks Berlinski about Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 Regensburg address and the West's relegating religious thinking, in Peter Robinson's words, "to the children's table." Berlinski says he would frame the situation a little differently: we are today less able to entertain a whole category of arguments we used to be able to entertain - theological arguments. As a habit of thought, theology has receded, but Berlinski says he sees this as temporary. "Theological arguments are not going to disappear, and the fundamental questions they address are not going to disappear either." Read More ... This episode of ID the Future features Part 1 of an interview between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Discovery Institute senior fellow David Berlinski, author of The Deniable Darwin and the newly released Human Nature. Berlinski begins by noting that living systems possess "a degree of complexity that is almost unfathomable" and explains how this poses an acute problem for Darwinism. The two also discuss discontinuities in the fossil record as well as Berlinski's insistence that "any theory of natural selection must plainly meet what I have called a rule against deferred success." Berlinski also rebuts Razib Khan's claim that in rejecting modern evolutionary theory, conservatives sacrifice "the most powerful rejoinder" to the claim "that male and female are merely categories of the mind." Quite the opposite, Berlinski insists. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, mathematician, polymath, and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Berlinski concludes a two-part conversation with Jonathan Witt about Berlinski's new book Human Nature. Today he talks about what we've sadly lost from the West, disputing secularists' optimistic claims that we're less violent than the medievals were. From his home next door to Notre Dame Cathedral, he also muses on the cathedral fire and contemporary France's inability to build anything like the great cathedral. Re-construct, yes - though even that may lie beyond the collective will of France. Create, no. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher, mathematician, and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Berlinski answers questions from Jonathan Witt about Berlinski's celebrated new book Human Nature. Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed? If not that, then will a computer-connected singularity take us on that upward trajectory, as Yuval Noah Harari argues in Homo Deus? With his famous quick wit, Berlinski says no, and warns of a new "explosion of religion," but a new religion, one without rational grounding and with a great willingness to punish dissenters. Read More ...

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• Physician

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• Professor of English at Grove City College

Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and an editor at The Front Porch Republic, wrote an article for Plough on what he regards as the primary weakness of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Bilbro comes to the issue from a literary background, which means he values the human element in language as a mode of communication. Literature is a "conversation," requiring sentient minds. He sees ChatGPT as a soulless mechanism that will atrophy our ability to write and diminish our appreciation for good writing. Bilbro writes, LLMs are a technology suited to a decadent culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It's easier to make money rearranging words Read More ›

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• Director
• Director of the Institute 's American Center for Transforming Education
• Senior Fellow and Director, American Center for Transforming Education

Dr. Keri D. Ingraham is a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute and Director of the Institute's American Center for Transforming Education. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Independent Women's Forum and a Fellow at yes. every kid. foundation. Dr. Ingraham has been a guest on Fox News multiple times. Her articles have been published by The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Federalist, Real Clear Education, The Washington Times, National Review, The American Spectator, Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times, The Seattle Times, Puget Sound Business Journal, The Daily Signal, and a host of other media outlets. Fox News has featured her work. Prior to joining Discovery Institute, she spent nearly two decades leading within the field of education as a national consultant, requested conference speaker, head of school, virtual and hybrid academy director, administrator, classroom teacher, and athletic coach. She authored multiple chapters for the book, Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda, published in 2022. In 2019, she was invited as a contributing author for the book, MindShift: Catalyzing Change in Christian Education and co-authored "From Gutenberg to 5G." Dr. Ingraham was awarded the George W. Selig Doctoral Fellowship in 2013. The following year she received the "World Changer in the Field of Education" award from Regent University.

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• Senior Fellow, the Center for Science & Culture and the Center on Human Exceptionalism

Michael Denton holds an M.D. from Bristol University, as well as a Ph.D. in biochemistry from King's College in London. A Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Denton has had a critical impact on the debate over Darwinian evolution. Denton's most prominent book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, coined the phrase that evolution is a "theory in crisis," and is credited with having inspired both Phillip Johnson and Michael Behe to investigate scientific problems with Darwinian evolution. His book showed that severe cracks exist in the foundation of Darwinism in areas related to homology, paleontology, and molecular biology. Although originally drafted more than 30 years ago, the core argument that much of the complexity of the biological world cannot be accounted for in terms of cumulative selection has stood the test of time as witnessed by the growing skepticism by many in the scientific community that micro evolution can be extrapolated to macroevolution. Following the work of historian of science Thomas Kuhn, Denton recounted that scientific revolutions occur when the dominant paradigm accumulates so many deficiencies that it reaches a "crisis" stage. According to Denton, Darwinism has reached that final stage. His 1998 sequel, Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, elaborates on the evidence for design in nature, showing that the laws of the universe are finely-tuned not only for the existence of carbon-based life, but even for complex beings of biology close to modern humans. Dr. Denton's research topic as a PhD student and post doctoral fellow at Kings College in the 1970s was the differentiation of the red blood cell, and his main research focus since the early 1980s has been on identifying genes responsible for inherited retinal disease in humans. Because certain categories of disease genes (e.g. recessive genes) can be more easily identified by studying large consanguineous pedigrees, he has spent several months each year for nearly two decades working and living in India and Pakistan where large inbred populations, ideal for gene mapping, are relatively common. His retinal research led to the identification of several new retinal disease genes including the gene used in the first successful gene therapy trial at Moorfields eye hospital in London in 2009. He has long adhered to a structuralist view of organic form, seeing much of the underlying order of life to be immanent in nature, the result of higher organizational principles or "laws of form" which constrain the behaviour of complex higher order assemblages of biomatter. As he argues, because these organizational principles or laws are emergent, and only manifest by their influence on "higher order assemblages," they cannot be inferred from analysis of the individual molecular components or parts of living systems analyzed in isolation and consequently pose a severe challenge to the reductionist agenda. Darwinism is also challenged because they represent emergent causal agencies which are immanent in nature and have nothing to do with natural selection. Moreover as Denton stresses: "Emergent features of any composite or whole (like the properties of water) are only manifest when the components of the composite (hydrogen and oxygen) are ‘combined together.' Because of this, they cannot be the result of cumulative Darwinian selection which is by definition a gradualistic process which can only build order bit by bit. Selection may choose and conserve the emergent properties of a whole but it cannot create them in the first place." Dr. Denton has published his work in journals such as Nature, Biochemical Journal, Nature Genetics, BioSystems, Human Genetics, Clinical Genetics, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, and Biology and Philosophy. He has presented his work at major universities throughout the world. His current research focuses on exploring the role and limitation of genes in the generation of cell form, particularly retinal cells and red blood cells, and examining the challenge posed to Darwinian functionalism by the apparently non-adaptive ground plans or types which underlie much of the adaptive complexity of life. He rejects the metaphysical basis of the Darwinian framework, specifically the assumptions that living organisms are nothing more than machines and that all properties of organisms have adaptive significance. On today's ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Australian biologist and MD Michael Denton to discuss his new book, The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence. As Denton notes, throughout the Middle Ages, humans were viewed as central to the cosmic scheme of things, but this anthropocentric view began to fall out of favor in the sixteenth century, and few if any scientific discoveries in the subsequent two centuries offered any apparent aid or comfort to the view. That, however, isn't the end of the story. According to Denton, even as Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by natural selection seemed to be draining from the idea what little life remained in it, discoveries in chemistry, physiology, and physics were emerging that began to revitalize the anthropocentric outlook. Denton says that the case that nature is fine tuned for intelligent creatures such as ourselves-land-going, airbreathing bipeds capable of controlling fire and developing new technologies-is today stronger than ever, and getting stronger. The Miracle of Man brings together the key lines of evidence as never before. Find the book, and advance praise for this capstone work, here. Read More ... Today's ID the Future spotlights the groundbreaking new book The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence, with author and biologist Michael Denton reading excerpts from the work. Here Denton, who is also an MD, marvels at the engineering sophistication of the human heart and hands. Then he dives into the heart of his new book, teasing just a small sampling of the many ways nature appears fine tuned for bipedal, intelligent, technology-developing creatures such as ourselves. One or two such examples are interesting. But where the argument gains dramatic force is in the accumulation of many examples, stretching from physics and the characteristics of our sun to chemistry and the ensemble of unique characteristics of planet Earth, water, carbon, and the transition metals. To appreciate the full force of Denton's prior fitness argument, pick up his newly released book here, where you can also check out the ringing endorsements from other scientists such as Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe and Henry Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia. Read More ... On this ID the Future, biochemist Michael Denton draws from his groundbreaking new book, The Miracle of the Cell, to explore a fine-tuning design argument centered on the periodic elements essential for life. Twenty elements-and water, too-appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Without their precise properties, cellular and animal life would be impossible. "Words fail," says Denton, to describe the "almost eerie sense" that someone very powerful knew in advance the roles and capacities required of various elements to carry out the astonishingly sophisticated activities that make cellular life possible. Denton says that this fine tuning provides an independent line of evidence that life is the result of intelligent design. Read More ... On this ID the Future, biochemist Michael Denton delves further into his revelatory new book The Miracle of the Cell. Here he discusses finely tuned chemical bonds. Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren't just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren't just so for others. Each type of bond exists in a Goldilocks zone, neither too strong nor too weak for its purposes. They're tailored to fit. Denton also explores the miracle enzyme known as ATP synthase and some of the fine-tuning particulars of this life-essential molecular complex. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist and author Michael Denton tells host Eric Anderson more about his new book The Miracle of the Cell, and about his epiphany when he recognized the many remarkable ways that nature's chemistry is fine-tuned for life. The focus in this conversation is on carbon chemistry and its "goldilocks zone" ability to form stable bonds but let loose of them when needed. Whereas biologists once wondered about a vitalist "life force" in the cell, Denton sees intelligence and foresight in the very design of carbon, its unique properties, and its "coincidental" relation to water. According to Denton, all of this, taken together, constitutes "one of nature's most remarkable examples of nature's fitness for life on earth." Carbon's suite of life-friendly features, he says, is foundational to the cell's peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms-everything from the smallest bacterium to the tallest tree, and you and me. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, Eric Anderson speaks with biochemist Michael Denton about Denton's new book The Miracle of the Cell, part of his continuing Privileged Species series exploring nature's fine tuning for life. New research keeps unveiling ever more ways in which this fine tuning exists, from the cosmos to the atoms of the periodic table, even to the subatomic level of quantum tunneling. As for the cell itself, It is as if scientists are discovering a "third infinity," says Denton. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, we listen in on a few minutes from a lecture given by Australian biochemist Michael Denton, author of the brand new book The Miracle of the Cell. In this segment, Denton explains the "remarkable set of coincidences" that makes the creation of oxygen through photosynthesis possible. From the specific energy of visible light to the unique properties of water, this degree of fine tuning for life shouts intelligent design. Read More ... On this year 2012 episode of ID the Future from the vault, Australian biochemist Michael Denton discusses various ways the universe is uniquely fit for carbon-based life, and perhaps even human life. Denton argues that when it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. Tune in to discover what he has found that has led him to the inference that our world is intelligently designed. Denton is author of the new book The Miracle of the Cell, where he brings his fine-tuning arguments up to date with a fascinating dive into the extraordinary fine tuning of the chemical elements of life. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads an excerpt from the new book The Miracle of the Cell by Michael Denton. Denton, a biochemist from Perth, Australia, and senior fellow of Discover Institute's Center for Science and Culture, introduces the wonders of the cell as "the universal constructor set of life." The diversity of cells - their variety of form, function, and locomotion - is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, even ingenious. As Denton notes, our growing knowledge of the cell's staggering sophistication has provoked the name "the third infinity." And this quick flyby of the cell is just an excerpt from the book's introductory chapter. There Denton lays the groundwork for the book's deeper dive into the extraordinary fine tuning of the chemical elements of life, a prior fitness that, according to Denton, points not only to intelligent design but to "a primal blueprint." Read More ...

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• Professor of Communications at Wheaton College

Dr. Read Schuchardt, professor of communications at Wheaton College (IL), identifies five primary ways digital technology can erode our lives and relationships, or produce what he calls "vices of the virtual life": Speaking of disembodiment, which he regards as perhaps the primary negative effect of virtual life, Schuchardt writes, On the phone, on the web, on the TV, you are simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. This creates a mind-body separation that both mimics death and parodies angels, eliminates the possibility of natural law, and allows you to become pure ‘information,' simply wearing the corporate body as your own. -Read Schuchardt, Media, Journalism, and Communication, p. 56. I've found this to be true in my own experience; time online produces an inner Read More ›

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• Scientist
• Senior Fellow
• Senior Research Scientist
• Software Engineer

Winston Ewert is a software engineer, intelligent design researcher, and Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute's Walter Bradley Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Trinity Western University, a Master's Degree from Baylor University in Computer Science, and a PhD from Baylor University in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His specializes in computer simulations of evolution, specified complexity, information theory, and the common design of genomes. He is a Senior Research Scientist at Biologic Institute, a Senior Researcher at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, and a Fellow of the Bradley Center. On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Robert J. Marks talks with Dr. Winston Ewert about Ewert's groundbreaking new hypothesis challenging Darwin's common descent tree of life. The new model is based on the well-established technique of repurposing software code in different software projects. Ewert, a senior researcher at Biologic and the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, describes the nested hierarchical pattern of life and how any credible theory of life's origin and diversity must explain it. He then describes how Darwin's basic theory fits, and doesn't fit, the pattern, and the various ancillary mechanisms invoked to close the gaps. These patches include horizontal gene transfer, convergent evolution, and incomplete lineage sorting. Ewert then cues up what he argues is a better, more elegant hypothesis, the common design hypothesis laid out in his peer-reviewed technical paper available here. Read More ... Why Digital Cambrian Explosions Fizzle … Or Fake It Winston Ewert June 7, 2017 This episode of ID the Future features a follow-up interview with Winston Ewert, co-author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics. Read More ...

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• Discovery Institute and 38th Director

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• Special Projects Coordinator

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• Associate Fellow at the Walter Bradley Center for Natural

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• Program Director
• Program Director at Discovery Institute

As Program Director at Discovery Institute, Erik assists the president in overseeing the operations of the institute's economics, technology, education reform, artificial intelligence, transportation innovation, and citizen leadership programs. Before joining Discovery Institute, Erik served as staff specialist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon, where he was responsible for oversight of large defense weapon system acquisition programs, including Air Force and Navy aircraft. Prior to that he served in the United States Air Force for over twenty-six years in a number of capacities, including squadron commander, operations officer, instructor pilot, aeronautical engineer, and assistant professor of aeronautical engineering at the US Air Force Academy. Following his retirement as a colonel in 2008, he was a senior analyst with the Defense Planning Corporation, supporting the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, where he facilitated coordination of interagency planning between the Department of Defense, State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, Justice Department, Transportation Department, and other interagency partners. Erik earned a B.S. in Engineering Science and a B.A. in History from Seattle Pacific University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington, a Master of Strategic Studies from Air War College, Air University, and a Masters of Arts in Theological Studies from Liberty University.

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• Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC
• Contributing Editor of Forbes
• Senior Fellow and Co - Founder of Discovery Institute

George Gilder is Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A co-founder of Discovery Institute, Mr. Gilder is a Senior Fellow of the Center on Wealth & Poverty, and also directs Discovery's Technology and Democracy Project. Born in 1939 in New York City, Mr. Gilder attended Exeter Academy and Harvard University. At Harvard, he studied under Henry Kissinger and helped found Advance, a journal of political thought, which he edited and helped to re-establish in Washington, DC, after his graduation in 1962. During this period he co-authored (with Bruce Chapman) The Party That Lost Its Head. He later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Politics and editor of the Ripon Forum. In the 1960s Mr. Gilder also served as a speechwriter for several prominent official and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon. In the 1970s, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder began an excursion into the causes of poverty and wealth, which resulted in his books Men and Marriage (1972) and Visible Man (1978) - which led to his best-selling Wealth and Poverty (1981). Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to Arthur Laffer's economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. In the 1980s he also consulted leaders of America's high technology businesses. According to a study of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President Reagan's most frequently quoted living author. In 1986, President Reagan gave George Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. In 1986 Gilder was made a Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium. His deeper examination of the lives of present-day entrepreneurs culminated in many articles and a book, The Spirit of Enterprise(1986), which was revised and republished in 1992. That many of the most interesting current entrepreneurs were to be found in high technology fields also led Mr. Gilder, over several years, to study this subject in depth. In his best-selling work, Microcosm (1989), he explored the quantum roots of the new electronic technologies. A subsequent book, Life After Television, was a prophecy of the future of computers and telecommunications and a prelude to his book on the future of telecommunications, Telecosm (2000). The Silicon Eye (2005) travels the rocky road of the entrepreneur on the promising path of disruption, and celebrates some of smartest and most colorful technology minds of our time. His groundbreaking book, The Israel Test (2009), relates his work on capitalism to the safety and prosperity of Israel, what Gilder calls "the central issue in international politics" in our time. What critics have hailed as a "unique contribution" to the debate, Gilder argues that hostility toward Israel arises primarily from hostility toward capitalist creativity. How we react to that creativity-by resenting it or admiring and emulating it-will impact the future of Israel, the United States, and the world. Mr. Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and a frequent writer for The Economist, The American Spectator, the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Mountains, where he is an active churchman, sometime runner, and with his wife Nini, parent of four children.

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• Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute 's Center for Science
• Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Guillermo Gonzalez is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1993 from the University of Washington. He has done post-doctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin and at the University of Washington and has received fellowships, grants and awards from such institutions as NASA, the University of Washington, the Templeton Foundation, Sigma Xi (scientific research society), and the National Science Foundation. Gonzalez has extensive experience in observing and analyzing data from ground-based observatories, including work at McDonald Observatory, Apache Point Observatory and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. He is a world-class expert on the astrophysical requirements for habitability and on habitable zones and a co-founder of the "Galactic Habitable Zone" concept, which captured the October 2001 cover story of Scientific American. Astronomers and astrobiologists around the world are pursuing research based on his work on exoplanet host stars, the Galactic Habitable Zone and red giants. Gonzalez has also published nearly 70 articles in refereed astronomy and astrophysical journals including The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Icarus and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. He also is the co-author of the second edition of Observational Astronomy, an advanced college astronomy textbook. In 2004 he co-authored The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery with Jay W. Richards. He's also an affiliate of Biologic Institute. On this ID the Future host and geologist Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth's place in the cosmos is fine tuned for life. In this second half of their conversation, Gonzalez zooms out to discuss the galactic habitable zone and the cosmic habitable age. Luskin says that the combination of exquisite cosmic and local fine tuning strongly suggests intelligent design, but he asks Gonzalez whether he thinks these telltale clues favor theism over deism? That is, does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists who, in the words of Stephen Dedalus, "remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails"? Gonzalez answers in the affirmative, but the reasons he offers for this conclusion may surprise you. Tune in to hear his answer. This two-part interview was occasioned by Gonzalez's essay in the newly released book Science and Faith in Dialogue, available for free here. Part 1 of the interview is here. And Gonzalez's book, The Privileged Planet, is available here. On today's ID the Future, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet, provides a rapid survey of some of the growing evidence that Earth is finely tuned in numerous ways to allow for life. He draws a helpful distinction between local fine tuning and universal fine tuning. And he tells us about the many extra-solar planets astronomers have discovered in recent years and how all that new data continues to undermine the misguided assumption (encouraged by the misnamed "Copernican Principle") that Earth is just a humdrum planet. Far from it, Gonzalez argues. The conversation is occasioned by Gonzalez's essay in a newly released anthology, Science and Faith in Dialogue. On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards and astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, co-authors of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, discuss reports on another extra-solar planet recently in the news. Read More ...

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• Founder and President of Fieldstead

Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. is founder and president of Fieldstead and Company, Inc., a private philanthropy working in national and international relief and development, education, the arts, family and children's concerns, and religious freedom issues worldwide. Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Ahmanson, is a graduate of Occidental College in that city and holds a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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• Board Member, Discovery Institute
• President of Seattle

Jim Spady is the President of Seattle's iconic Dick's Drive-in Restaurant chain. A 1976 graduate of Bellevue's Interlake High School, Jim earned an economics degree (summa cum laude) from Arizona State University in 1980 and a Juris Doctor degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington School of Law in 1983.

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• Discovery Institute Senior Fellow

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• Chief Economist of Vident Financial
• Fellow, Discovery Institute 's Center on Wealth & Poverty

Jerry Bowyer is the Chief Economist of Vident Financial, which has more than $1 billion directly under management. He is also author of The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics and host of the podcast "Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer." He is Editor of Town Hall Finance, Editor of Christian Post Business, serves on the Editorial Board of Salem Communications, is Resident Economist with Kingdom Advisors, is Senior Fellow in Financial Economics at the Center for Cultural Leadership, and is President of Bowyer Research. He has compiled an impressive record as a leading thinker in finance and economics. He worked as an auditor and a tax consultant with Arthur Anderson and with the Beechwood Company, which is the family office associated with Federated Investors. He consulted in various privatization efforts for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, including airport privatization with Wilbur Ross, the current US Commerce Secretary. He founded the influential economic think tank, the Allegheny Institute, and has lectured extensively at universities, businesses and civic groups. He has been a member of three investment committees, among which is Benchmark Financial, Pittsburgh's largest financial services firm. Jerry holds a Sacred Theology Licentiate from the Collegium Augustinianum and a Bachelor's degree from Robert Morris University. He has lectured at Oxford University's Wycliffe Hall, has taught social ethics at Ottawa Theological Hall, public policy at Saint Vincent College, and has guest-lectured at Carnegie Mellon University's graduate Heinz School of Public Policy, at Grove City College, at Northwest University, at Lancaster Bible College, and at Indiana Wesleyan University. In 1997 Jerry delivered the commencement address at Robert Morris University and was the youngest commencement speaker in its history. The school received more requests for transcripts of Jerry's speech than at any other time in its 120-year history. Jerry has been a regular commentator on Fox Business News and Fox News and has been a Forbes.com columnist. He was formerly a CNBC Contributor, has guest-hosted "The Kudlow Report", and has written for CNBC.com, National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal as well as many other publications. He is also the author of The Free Market Capitalist's Survival Guide, published by Harper Collins and of The Bush Boom. Jerry was consulted by the Bush White House on matters pertaining to the economic crisis of 2008. He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, The International Herald Tribune and various local newspapers. He has been a contributing editor of National Review Online, The New York Sun and Townhall Magazine. Jerry has hosted daily radio and TV programs and was one of the founding members of WQED's On-Q Friday Roundtable. He has guest hosted the Bill Bennett radio program as well as radio programs in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Jerry is the former host of WorldView, a nationally syndicated Sunday-morning political talk show created on the model of Meet the Press. On WorldView, Jerry interviewed distinguished guests including Vice President Dick Cheney, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Presidential Advisor Carl Rove, Attorney General Edwin Meese and publisher Steve Forbes. Jerry lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan, and the youngest three of their seven children.

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• Fellow of Discovery Institute 's Center for Science
• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

John Bloom is a Fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and a Professor of Physics at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He serves as the Academic Director for Biola's M.A. in Science and Religion program (MASR), which he founded in 2004, and previously served as Chair of the Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering Department. Dr. Bloom teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in Physics and graduate courses in the MASR. His research interests include the integration of Christianity with the sciences, and apologetics.

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• Representative

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• Black Markets and Drug Dens Take over Seattle 's Chinatown
• Hidden Encampment Network in Seattle 's Forests
• Journalist and Senior Fellow With Discovery Institute 's Center
• Journalist and Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty
• SPD Brilliantly Handles Mental Health Crisis Downtown

Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entreprenuership to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial. Choe is a New England native and Boston University journalism school graduate.

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• Resident Biologist & Fellow

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• Executive Editor

Justin B. A. Frederick is an Eastern Orthodox Priest. He holds an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and also studied at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he focused on Patristics. During his time at Princeton, he was an editor of the Princeton Theological Review. He is a fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture as well as a priest at St. Maximus the Confessor Orthodox Church (OCA) in Denton, Texas. He has traveled extensively in Russia, speaks Russian fluently, and ministers to the Russian community in Dallas

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• Vice President, Discovery Institute, and Managing Director, Center for Science & Culture

Kathy has been a community volunteer and philanthropist the past 25 years while raising her 4 children. A Bellevue, Washington native, she feels fortunate to be able to pursue her passions and community through organizations close to her heart. A 1982 graduate of the University of Washington Business school, Kathy worked for Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, Westin Hotels and Columbia Pictures before becoming a full time homemaker.

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• Director

Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither are generated by material processes Kenneth Miller is a biologist at Brown University who has been very active in his written and vocal support for Darwin's theory of evolution. He's neither a materialist nor an atheist - he is a Catholic, and in being one of the rare Darwinists who doesn't subscribe wholeheartedly to the materialist/atheist paradigm, he allows himself to be used as a token theist by the Darwinists. It helps his career, no doubt, but doesn't advance the truth. Not an admirable place to be. Miller's New Book and What it Misses In his 2018 book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved To Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will, Miller manages a feat uncommon even for Darwinists - even the title of the Read More ›

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• Finance Assistant

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• French Scientist

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• Distinguished Brazilian Scientist
• Distinguished Scientist
• Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Marcos Eberlin received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and served as a postdoc at Purdue University. Back at UNICAMP, he founded and coordinated for 25 years the ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry (MS) Laboratory, making it an internationally recognized research center, one of the best-equipped and innovative MS laboratories worldwide. Eberlin has published nearly 1,000 scientific articles and is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the title of Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2005) from Brazil's President, the Zeferino Vaz Award (2002) for excellence in teaching and research. He is the founder and current president of the Brazilian Society for Mass Spectrometry (BrMASS) - one of the largest MS societies. Eberlin is also President of the Brazilian Society for Intelligent Design (TDI Brasil) and the Director of the Discovery-Mackenzie Research Center for Science, Faith and Society at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. Previous to writing Foresight, he published the bestselling book Fomos Planejados, the first book in Portuguese presenting the scientific evidence for intelligent design in nature. Distinguished Brazilian organic chemist Marcos Eberlin talks about chemical evolution and the origin of life, pivoting off of comments by Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour in Science Uprising Episode 5, and off of Eberlin's own Nobel laureate-endorsed book. Read More ... On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the Nobel laureate-endorsed Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, about - of all things - diarrhea, the body's surprisingly helpful (and sophisticated) system for flushing out that bad stuff. Read More ...

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• Retired

Mariana Parks is retired from a career in public policy, having worked as Deputy State Director and speechwriter for US Senator Slade Gorton, and as president of the Slade Gorton International Policy Center. She also served as Senior Advisor for US Representative Dave Reichert, and worked for the Washington Policy Center and Microsoft Government Affairs. Parks ran her own company providing consultancy to a broad range of corporate, political and non-profit organizations. She now serves as president of CTNNB1 Syndrome Awareness Worldwide, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing awareness of the ultra-rare genetic disorder, which affects her grandson, connecting other families and the medical community dealing with the Syndrome, and providing resources and research into finding effective treatments and eventually a cure.

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• Development Assistant

Today's ID the Future brings the first part of a friendly debate/discussion between Lehigh University biologist and intelligent design proponent Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Led by Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn, Behe starts by noting that he is a lifelong Catholic who accepted from childhood that, as he was taught in school, if God wanted to work through the secondary causes of Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms to generate the diversity of life, who were we to tell him he shouldn't or couldn't do it that way? Behe says that his skepticism toward Neo-Darwinism arose many years later and stemmed purely from his scientific research. Ramage, who specializes in the work of Pope Benedict XVI, sees God as indispensable to creation but also embraces universal common descent and emphasizes God's ability to work through secondary causation. Ramage asks Behe if he agrees with common descent. Behe explains why he finds the issue trivial and says the crucial issue is what Behe argued for in Darwin's Black Box, namely that mindless Darwinian mechanisms lack the creative power to have generated life's diversity, and that we have compelling positive reasons to conclude that the purposeful arrangement of parts, such as we find in mousetraps and molecular biological machines, is the work of intelligent design. Ramage urges Behe to spend more of his rhetorical energy distinguishing himself from creationists who reject evolution in toto. Behe again pushes back, saying he doesn't care "two hoots" for the issue of common descent, and that the important thing to focus on is how the science has turned against modern Darwinism and its emphasis on random changes and natural selection. Behe acknowledges that Darwinian evolution nicely explains things like the emergence of wooly mammoths from elephants, or polar bears from grizzly bears, but he says these are examples of life filling various evolutionary niches via devolution. It doesn't get you the evolution of all living things through mindless evolutionary mechanisms. There are many other elements and nuances in this lively conversation between a Catholic scientist and a Catholic theologian. Tune in to hear more, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 of the debate. (This podcast conversation is used here by permission of Pat Flynn.) Read More ...

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• Devil 's Chaplain: Evolution As a "Theological Research Program
• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
• Professor Emeritus of UAB Libraries

Michael A. Flannery is professor emeritus of UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He holds degrees in library science from the University of Kentucky and history from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He has written and taught extensively on the history of medicine and science. His most recent research interest has been on the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). He has edited Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism (Erasmus Press, 2008) and authored Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life (Discovery Institute Press, 2011). His research and work on Wallace continues.

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• 7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution
• Darwin Devolves Author
• Mammoth Support for Devolution
• Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University
• Recognizing Design by a "Purposeful Arrangement of Parts
• Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Michael J. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Behe's current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures. In his career he has authored over 40 technical papers and two books, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, which argue that living system at the molecular level are best explained as being the result of deliberate intelligent design. Most recently, in Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin's mechanism works, weakening the theory's validity even more. Today's ID the Future continues A Mousetrap for Darwin author Michael Behe's conversation with philosopher Pat Flynn, focused on some of the more substantive objections to Behe's case for intelligent design in biology. In this segment the pair discuss the bacterial flagellum, the cilium, and the blood clotting cascade, and tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. This interview is posted here by permission of Pat Flynn. Read More ... On today's ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe's central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, Behe has argued that certain features in biology are irreducibly complex. That is, they require numerous essential parts, each carefully fitted to its task and integrated with the other parts, in order for the molecular machine or system to function at all. Two examples are the bacterial flagellum motor and the blood clotting cascade. Such systems are, in Behe's words, irreducibly complex and could not have arisen through any blind and gradual evolution process. The better explanation for their origin: intelligent design. Since Darwin's Black Box became a bestseller a generation ago, Behe has attracted opponents in places high and low. Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. In this series Flynn focuses the discussion on what he regards as some of the more substantive and interesting objections, beginning with one from a noted philosopher who is partly sympathetic to Behe's work, Plantinga himself. Behe gamely responds. This episode is used by permission of Pat Flynn. To see Behe's responses to common and key objections collected in a single book book, get your copy of his newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics. Read More ... Today's ID the Future features three recent Evolution News essays by Lehigh University biology professor and Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe, as read by host Andrew McDiarmid. In the first, nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about new results that turn out to be much ado about nothing. In this case, it's some recent speculation about the rise of "lactase persistence" in many human adults. Then it's onto malaria, much beloved of evolutionists, not for its lethality but as a demonstration of evolution in action. But Behe dissects the latest news story on the topic to show that the touted malaria evolution is, once again, malaria gnawing off the proverbial leg to achieve a niche advantage-that is, mere devolution. It's akin, Behe says, to the rise of tuskless elephants in Africa, where having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers, thereby improving its chances of survival. In the third essay Behe makes a case for his favorite way of concisely describing what we detect when we detect intelligent design in biology. For a great collection of Dr. Behe's essays, get a copy of his newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael Behe Answers His Critics. Read More ... On today's ID the Future, Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe argues that Darwinism was built on a foundation of ignorance. Through no fault of Darwin's, neither he nor anyone else in his day had a clue about the nature of cellular life and biological information, says Behe. Even the biologists of the Neo-Darwinian synthesis in the first half of the twentieth century were fairly clueless about the foundation of life, Behe says. When researchers did finally begin to unravel the sophisticated foundations of life, earlier notions of how evolutionary processes might have invented the great diversity of life forms on earth were exposed as causally inadequate. Behe says that in fact all the attempts to rescue the idea of mindless macroevolution have been exposed as inadequate by our growing understanding of molecular biology, but evolutionary theory blithely sails along anyway, thanks to institutional inertia. A key defeater of the theory, Behe says, is captured by his concept of irreducible complexity. He explains the idea with a simple illustration, a mousetrap, and then applies it to a marvelous molecular machine that researchers have only recently come to appreciate, the Escherichia virus T4 bacteriophage. As he argues, this bacteriophage powerfully bespeaks the purposeful arrangement of parts, rather than mindless evolutionary processes. The occasion for his conversation with host Casey Luskin is his contribution to the recent Harvest House anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Image Credit: Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez: Atomic structural model of bacteriophage T4 in UCSF Chimera software using pdbs of the individual proteins. On this ID the Future, ID biologist Michael Behe continues fielding tough questions from philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 3 of 3, Behe responds to the claim that some designs in biology are bad designs and to criticisms leveled at ID from some Thomists. Also in the mix, the issue of academic pressure to distance oneself from ID, even before those involved understand what the theory of intelligent design actually is. Madden also asks Behe what reforms he'd pursue if he suddenly found himself in charge of the National Academy of Sciences. Tune in to hear Behe's response, and much more. This three-part series is borrowed, with permission, from Flynn's podcast, which can be found on his YouTube channel. Read More ... In today's ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 2 of a three-part series, Behe offers an illustration from language and Madden presses him, noting that meaning detection in language is not parts to whole. A lively exchange ensues and then Behe turns the discussion back to his primary focus, detecting design in molecular biological machines by recognizing the purposeful arrangement of parts. From there the conversation turns to everything from epigenetics, systems biology, and autopoiesis to co-option, mousetraps, tie clips, biologist Kenneth Miller, and the philosophers Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. For Behe's newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher and podcaster Pat Flynn. Read More ... Today's ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe speaking about the logic and evidence of intelligent design with two philosophers, Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. In a friendly, stimulating exchange, Flynn and Madden press Behe with objections - some philosophic, others scientific - to see how well his position stands up to scrutiny from experts who have engaged the subject. Here in Part 1 of a three-part series, Behe counters the charge that ID is an argument from ignorance, and then the three men compare the contemporary design argument to philosopher Thomas Aquinas's fifth way. For Behe's newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher and podcaster Pat Flynn. Read More ... On today's ID the Future, author and biologist Michael Behe discusses with host Andrew McDiarmid how the once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Behe suggested in his ID classic Darwin's Black Box-and indeed, even more complex than his review of cilia in his update in 2007. At the time Behe described cilia as "irreducible complexity squared." But as noted in a recent article at Evolution News, even more layers of sophistication in cilia and their Intraflagellar Transport (IFT) system have now been discovered. So, does that mean we are now looking at irreducible complexity cubed? Listen in as Behe and McDiarmid revel in the engineering sophistication of this fascinating molecular machine, and discuss why, more than ever, it appears to point away from any form of mindless evolution for its cause. Read More ...

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• Senior Fellow, Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence

Michael R. Egnor, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, has served as the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and award-winning brain surgeon. He was named one of New York's best doctors by the New York Magazine in 2005. He received his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital. His research on hydrocephalus has been published in journals including Journal of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association in the United States and has lectured extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

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• Generation President of Dunn Lumber

Mike Dunn is the fourth generation president of Dunn Lumber. Mike started working after school in 1969 and has done practically every job in the company. His favorite job was buying the lumber, plywood, and other commodities, which he did for 25 years. He is the father of three married children, two of which work for the company and has year-old identical twin granddaughters. He loves boating and golf when he has time, but mostly he's found interacting with family, team members, vendors, and customers. As he's very fond of saying, "trust is hard to build and easy to lose!"

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• Director

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• Music

Patrick Brown left academia so he could engage in better science. And, that allowed him to write this article.

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• Professor

Paul Chien is Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco (2015) and he was elected Chairman of the Department of Biology twice. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California at Irvine's Department of Developmental & Cell Biology. Dr. Chien is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and has held such positions as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CIT); Instructor of Biology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a consultant to both the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory of the CIT, and the Scanning Electron Microscopy & Micro X-ray Analyst in the Biology Department of Santa Clara University, California. His work has been published in over fifty technical journals and he has spoken internationally, and on numerous occasions, from Brazil to mainland China-where he has also been involved in cooperative research programs. Dr. Chien and coworkers translated 16 ID-related books and 6 DVDs into Chinese.

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• Web and Content Production Assistant

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• Computer Scientist
• Against the Tyranny of Data
• Can Everything Be Reduced to Data
• Literature and Personal Consciousness: Why AI Can'T Speak to You / AI Can Never Intend Meaning Like a Human Author Can
• the Life We'Re Looking for: a Book Review
• Writer and Editor, Center for Science & Culture

Peter Biles graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Hillbilly Hymn and Keep and Other Stories and has also written stories and essays for a variety of publications. He was born and raised in Ada, Oklahoma and is the Writer and Editor for Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture.

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• CSC Fellow
• Discovery Institute Fellow
• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
• Our Irreducibly Complex Calcium Control System

Raymond Bohlin received his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently Vice-President of Vision Outreach for Probe Ministries and a Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has lectured on more than two dozen college and university campuses, addressing origins issues as well as other science-related topics such as the environment, genetic engineering, medical ethics, and sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Bohlin's work has been published in the Journal of Thermal Biology, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation and the Journal of Mammalogy. He is the author of The Natural Limits to Biological Change (Probe Books 1984), which he is currently revising and updating, and edited the book Creation, Evolution and Modern Science (Kregel, 2000). Dr. Howard Glicksman, author of an extended series at Evolution News on "The Designed Body," is interviewed today by Ray Bohlin on glucose, glycogen, glucogon, insulin - all part of an extended multi-step series essential for life - an irreducibly complex series. "If students only knew how life worked," says Dr. Glicksman," … they'd quickly come to realize that when it comes to figuring out where it all came from, common sense tells us it was intelligent design, and it's the Darwinists who are suffering from an illusion." In this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Anika Smith interviews CSC Fellow Ray Bohlin. Ray Bohlin earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and is the current Presidents of Probe Ministries. During his academic studies Bohlin developed doubts about evolution that he then explored in his book, The Natural Limits to Biological Change written in 1984. Listen as he explains his skepticism of evolution and offers advice for emerging scientific doubters of Darwin. Read More ...

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• Back - to - School Special Offer: Order Discovering ID Curriculum and Get Two Free DVDs
• Director of Communications, Center for Science & Culture
• He Has Been Vindicated by the Leading Scientific Publications in the World
• New Infographic "the Science of ID: Biochemistry" Beautifully Showcases ID 's Use of Scientific Method
• Spider Tricks Are a Treat for Science
• Well I'Ll Be a Monkey 's Uncle Er, I Mean Nephew Science and Human Origins 2 Biology Book for Kindle

Robert Crowther holds a BA in Journalism with an emphasis in public affairs and 20 years experience as a journalist, publisher, and brand marketing and media relations specialist. From 1994-2000 he was the Director of Public and Media Relations for Discovery Institute overseeing most aspects of communications for each of the Institute's major programs. In addition to handling public and media relations he managed the Institute's first three books to press, Justice Matters by Roberta Katz, Speaking of George Gilder edited by Frank Gregorsky, and The End of Money by Richard Rahn. In 2000 he took a position as a brand strategist at Parker LePla in Seattle and helped manage marketing and brand communications for a number of non-profit organizations and corporations including Seattle Children's Home, Wild Tangent, Group Health, Bastyr University, and IDX Technologies. In 2003 Crowther returned to Discovery Institute to take over as Director of Communications for the Center for Science & Culture. He oversees public and social media relations for the Institute's work on the debate over evolution. In addition to researching and writing on the debate over evolution, Crowther has written on generational studies and was co-founder, and senior fellow, of the Generational Inquiry Group, a virtual think-tank conducting and disseminating research on political and cultural issues from a generational perspective. His writing on a number of issues has been published in The Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The New York Times, Wolrdnetdaily.com, San Angelo Standard Times, Tacoma News Tribune, Whistleblower Magazine, LTM Newsletter, City Magazine, Insight Out, Cityheat, Business Unusual, and Computer Wave. He also twice successfully published his own magazine the first focusing on the intersection of music and culture, and later one looking at technology and culture. On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther continues his conversation with J. Scott Turner, biologist at the State University of New York (SUNY), visiting scholar at Cambridge University, and author of the new book Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It. Turner critiques evolutionary biology's bias toward mechanistic and gene-centric thinking, and contemporary biology's failure to come to grips with the evidence of purpose and intentionality at many levels of biology. Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Robert Lowry Clinton received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently professor emeritus in the department of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, which he chaired from 2004 until 2012. Dr. Clinton has published two books and numerous articles in periodicals such as First Things, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Journal of Supreme Court History. In 2001, he gave a nationally-televised address at the U. S. Supreme Court. In 2007-2008, he was William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. In God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism, which ranges widely over the fields of Anglo-American constitutional and legal history, natural law theory, political philosophy, and theology. Dr. Clinton contends that a theistic, God-centered Constitution is more compatible with the American constitutional tradition than the agnostic, human-centered Constitution that has been developed more recently by the American judiciary. Dr. Clinton is now working on a book challenging scientific naturalism and its implications for social and political science.

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• Professor at State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences

Scott Turner is a biologist and physiologist, a professor at State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and visiting professor at Cambridge. In this episode, Rob Crowther interviews him about his new book Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed To Explain It. Turner argues that modern Darwinism has reached a scientific dead end, unable to tell us what life is, treats many of its features - including purpose and desire - virtually as illusions. There's a better way to view life, says Turner.

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who takes an atheist and materialist philosophical perspective on nature and on science. I have disagreed with him often - I'm in no position to judge his scientific acumen, but his philosophical acumen leaves a lot to be desired. An example of this is a question he asks in a recent documentary about free will (which I haven't watched yet). In the trailer for the movie, Carroll asks, How in the world does the immaterial mind affect the physical body? Carroll's denial of libertarian free will is based on this question, and of course, he believes that the immaterial mind does not exist and, if it did exist, could not Read More ›

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• Founder and President of the Skip & Susan Gilliland Foundation

Skip Gilliland, Founder and President of The Skip & Susan Gilliland Foundation, joined the Discovery Institute board in 2008. He is the co-founder of Geodax Technology, Inc., a nuclear medicine technology company based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. Gilliland served as the company's Chief Technical Officer from its founding in 1985 until 2004. In 2001, the company was named by the Triad Business Journal (a local business and trade publication) as one of the fastest growing companies in the region. Prior to founding Geodax, Mr. Gilliland worked for the Carolina Power & Light Company in its nuclear power generation division.

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• CEO

CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher is blunt about the cause: Machine learning "doesn't live up to the hype"

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• Director, Center for Science & Culture

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• Senior Fellow and Academic Mentoring Centers Coordinator

Stephen Dilley (PhD, philosophy) is the Academic Mentoring Centers Coordinator and a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture. Prior to joining Discovery, Dr. Dilley was a professor for 14 years at St. Edward's University (Austin, TX). He is the editor of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism (Lexington Books) and co-editor of Human Dignity in Bioethics (Routledge). He has published essays in the The British Journal for the History of Science, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and elsewhere.

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• Director of Finance

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• President
• Member of the Business
• President, Discovery Institute

Steven J. Buri was appointed President of Discovery Institute in December 2011. He joined the Institute in April 2000 as Executive Director and was named Vice President in 2005. Mr. Buri has served in various capacities in government at the local, state and federal levels. From 1996-1998, Steve was a senior staff member to U.S. Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), representing him in international trade, foreign policy and immigration issues. He was also active in statewide political campaigns, working with Washington State gubernatorial candidate Dale Foreman in 1996 and as Political Director for Christopher Bayley's 1998 U.S. Senate campaign. Following the 1998 campaign, Mr. Buri co-founded Stewardship Partners with Mr. Bayley. Stewardship Partners takes a free-market approach to environmental challenges and works to bridge the gap between private landowners and those responsible for enforcing environmental laws and regulations. He served as Executive Director of the organization from 1998-2000. In 2009 he founded the Roanoke Conference, a statewide political conference designed to connect activists and elected officials with students and young professionals. In just its second year, The Seattle Times, called the conference "the must-attend event for Republicans in Washington State." The conference is held each January in Ocean Shores, Washington and attracts more than 500 attendees. Mr. Buri is an active member of the business community in Seattle, and in Newcastle, Washington, where he served as Deputy Mayor of the city from 2010-2011 and as Mayor from 2014-2015. In his council capacity, Steve served on several regional committees including the Eastside Transportation Partnership (ETP), a group of regional leaders charged with representing the transportation needs of Eastside residents.

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• ID Critic

Tony Whatley grew up in Atlanta and earned both his Bachelor and Masters Degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. All of his career was spent in the institutional investment management field. His first stint was as one of the original founders of INDATA, which relocated to San Francisco in the early 1970's. In 1976, he was recruited by Frank Russell Company and moved to the Pacific Northwest. He spent 15 years in various positions with Frank Russell rising to the Director of Sales and Marketing. In 1992, he founded Accessor Capital Management and served as the CEO of Accessor Mutual Funds until the company was sold in 2008. Since that time, Tony has served on several boards of nonprofit organizations and devoted much of his time to researching and writing about fitness and its application in promoting health and longevity.

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• Development Assistant

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• Fellow, Center for Science and Culture

Walter L. Bradley received his B.S. degree in Engineering Science (Physics) in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1968, both from the University of Texas (Austin). He subsequently taught at the Colorado School of Mines as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering for 8 years, at Texas A&M University as Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering for 24 years, and for 10 years at Baylor University as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research area has been Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on the mechanical properties of plastics and polymeric (plastic) composite materials, fracture and life prediction. He has received more than $7 million in research funding (NSF, AFOSR, DOD, NASA , 10 fortune 500 companies) and published more than 150 refereed technical papers and book chapters. He has been honored by the American Society for Materials as an elected FELLOW of ASM in 1993. The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) honored him with a career-contributions award as the Educator of the Year for the US, Canada, and England in 2011. His most recent work has focused on converting agricultural waste into functional fillers for engineering plastics to provide new economic opportunities for poor farmers in developing countries. Dr. Bradley has also explored polymeric issues related to the origin of life, co-authoring The Mystery of Life: Reassessing Current Theories (Philosophical Library, 1984) and articles in the journals The Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 18 (1988) and the American Biology Teacher, Vol. 55 (No.2), February 1993, pp. 78-83. On this episode of ID the Future, Robert Marks continues his conversation with Walter Bradley, co-author (with Charles Thaxton and Roger Olsen) of the groundbreaking 1984 work The Mystery of Life's Origin. A revised and expanded edition of the book has just been released with new contributions from James Tour, Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer, and others, but today Bradley and Marks discuss the book's first release, including the cultural context that made finding a non-religious publisher an uphill battle, and discussion of some of the endorsements and early reviews, including one drive-by and four positive responses from distinguished scientists Robert Jastrow, Dean Kenyon, Robert Shapiro, and Fritz Schaefer. Bradley and Marks also discuss some scholars who more recently have testified to how the book, and Bradley, dramatically influenced their intellectual careers. Read More ...

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• Chairman
• Senior Fellow
• Chairman and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
• Contributor to the Corner at National Review

Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to The Corner at National Review and is the author of more than 14 books, in recent years focusing exclusively on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley's most recent book is his updated and revised Culture of Death: The Age of "Do Harm" Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement which was named one of the Ten Outstanding Books of the Year and Best Health Book of the Year by Independent Publishers Association. He collaborated with Ralph Nader, co-authoring four books with the consumer advocate, notably No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America. Wesley has been recognized as one of America's premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and was honored by the Human Life Foundation as a "Great Defender of Life" for his work against suicide and euthanasia. An attorney by training, Wesley left the full time practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy and has since published thousands of articles, columns, and opinion pieces on issues pertaining to the moral importance of human life. Wesley addresses the entire spectrum of bioethical issues, particularly relating to conscience, patient protection, eugenics, suicide, transhumanism, medical ethics, and law and policy. Wesley's writing has appeared nationally and internationally, including in Newsweek, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, the Weekly Standard, National Review, The Age(Australia), The Telegraph (United Kingdom), Western Journal of Medicine, and the American Journal of Bioethics. Wesley has appeared on more than a thousand television and radio talk/interview programs, including such national shows as ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, CNN Anderson Cooper 360, CNN World Report, CBS Evening News, EWTN, C-SPAN, Fox News Network, as well as nationally syndicated radio programs, including Coast to Coast, Dennis Miller, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Afternoons with Al Kresta, and EWTN. He has appeared internationally on Voice of America, CNN International, and programs originating in Great Britain (BBC), Australia (ABC), Canada (CBC), Ireland, Poland, New Zealand, Germany, China, and Mexico. Wesley's books include Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die, a broad-based criticism of the assisted suicide and euthanasia movement, which has become a classic in anti-euthanasia advocacy. Wesley's Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World explores the morality, science, and business aspects of human cloning, stem cell research, and genetic engineering. A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement serves as Wesley's searing critique of the ideology and tactics of the animal liberation movement and a rousing defense of the unique importance of the human person, captured by the phrase "human exceptionalism". Wesley's The War on Humans, serves as a companion, exposing the anti-human and misanthropic nature of radical environmentalism and a call to return to a human-friendly understanding of ecology. Additionally, Wesley's Power Over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need, co-authored with Eric M. Chevlen, MD, provides practical responses for those who are the target of Compassion and Choices and other pro-suicide and pro-euthanasia activists. Wesley is often called upon by executive branch officials, lawmakers, and policy advocates to advise on issues within his fields of expertise. Wesley has testified as an expert witness in front of federal and state legislative committees, and has counseled government and business leaders internationally about matters pertaining to bioethics and other issues about which he advocates.

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• Dialogue With ChatGPT on Intelligent Design
• Inferring the Best Explanation Via Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design
• It Has a Difficulty Dealing With Self - Reference
• Move over, Keats? Here Is AI - Generated Poetry
• Rosenhouse 's Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds
• These AI Systems Lack the Uniquely Human Capacity of Self - Transcendence

On this ID the Future, mathematician and philosopher William Dembski shares with host Eric Anderson about a revised and updated edition of Dembski's pioneering 1998 Cambridge University Press book, The Design Inference. Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years, particularly from his work with Robert J. Marks and Winston Ewert at the Evolutionary Informatics lab. Lessons from that and other work, Dembski explains, will enrich the new edition. What light do these design-detecting methods shed on modern evolutionary theory? Tune in as Dembski explains. Read More ...