Watch the 1st New Video of the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

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March 18, 2020
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Listen: Biochemist Michael Behe Puts Coronavirus in a Helpful Scientific Perspective

What to do during a full-country shutdown? Sit at home and stare at increasingly toxic Facebook and other social media, as I’m sorry to say I did for too long on Sunday? Fortunately there’s an alternative to blithe reassurances and doomsday handwringing: Michael Behe!

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Watch the 1st New Video of the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

One of science's biggest questions has always been, and remains, what is the origin of the first life? In this first video clip from the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Walter Bradley explores the current state of origin of life research.

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Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas

One priority of the Cosmos series is to instruct viewers about the incompatibility of science and religious faith. Luckily we have some very timely counterprogramming, in the form of videos by Discovery Institute science historian Mike Keas.

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Upstairs into the Plague

When I got into the office, our team was waiting to make rounds. Several of them were on call overnight — they spent the night in the ER, seeing neurosurgery patients, amidst the crush of humanity with fevers and coughs. I’m lucky — I’m the professor, and I mostly go to the operating room — where it’s sterile and everyone wears masks. My team in the ER doesn’t have that luxury. They don’t complain.

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Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

In 2010, Craig Venter’s lab embedded text and images into the DNA of a bacterium. Would a future investigator be able to tell? It would take special tools to see the insertion, but the difference should be detectable. What if bioengineers invent new genes that use the cell’s translation machinery to build non-natural proteins?

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Calendar  Videos

Is Homology Evidence for Evolution?
Long Story Short
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Human Zoos
America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism
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The X Factor in Life
Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe, Episode 5

IDTF  ID the Future
  CSC Podcast

Michael Behe on COVID-19 and ‘Why Are There Viruses, Anyway?’
March 16, 2020
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Jay Richards on When to Doubt the Scientific “Consensus”
March 13, 2020
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Durston on Experimental, Inferential, and Fantasy Science — Pt. 2
March 12, 2020
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