ID Education Day Is Coming to Tacoma, November 6!

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This is a fantastic field trip opportunity for middle and high school students in homeschool and private school settings to interact directly with scientists. Source
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Earth’s Phosphorus Supply Chains Revealed

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Without phosphorus, life as we know it could not exist. How does this limiting resource get to the oceans and land?  Source
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“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

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The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source
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Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source
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Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

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An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Source
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Frontiers of ID: Microscopic Ecologies

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Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Source
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