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What do Modern Textbooks Really Say about Haeckel’s Embryos?

_{Casey Luskin
February 27, 2007}

Many Darwinists are currently making much noise on their blogs and at movie screenings, trying to rewrite history by claiming that Haeckel’s embryo drawings were never used in modern textbooks. In a contradictory claim, some then concede that modern textbooks have used the drawings but argue … » Go

Discovery Institute Scientists Will Showcase Evidence Challenging Darwinism at Knoxville Conference

_{Discovery Institute
February 19, 2007}

KNOXVILLE — What is intelligent design and what scientific evidence supports it? Why is it so controversial? How does it differ from Darwins theory of evolution? Is there a purpose to the universe? What new scientific facts are turning evolutionary theories upside down? This one-day … » Go

The Mark of Meaning

_{Unspecified
October 13, 2006}

Literature, chemistry, mathematics, biology. These subjects are not immediately connected in the human mindthough all challenge, inspire, and often engulf the mind, perhaps at its pinnacle. Does evolution, however, explain why man would endeavor so fervently to unlock the secrets of geometry or … » Go

Eco-Misanthropes Want Better Living Through Mass Death

_{Deroy Murdock
June 15, 2006}

This article, published by Scripps Howard News Service, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards: The curator emeritus for botany at Chicago’s Field Museum of Science last Nov. 9 wrote then-Discovery Institute scholar Jay Richards regarding his book, “The Privileged … » Go

Unapologetic Apologetics

_{Multiple Authors
June 1, 2006}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellows William Dembski and Jay Richards launch a scathing attack on naturalistic philosophy in this anthology aimed at a Christian audience, with various chapters explaining why naturalism is failing as a philosophical paradigm. Richards notes that naturalism as a … » Go

“Traipsing Into Evolution”: Legal Experts Analyze the Impact of the Dover Intelligent Design Trial in New Book

_{Discovery Institute
May 19, 2006}

Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision (DI Press 2006) is the first book to critique federal Judge John E. Jones’ decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, the first trial to address the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design in public … » Go

Are We Spiritual Machines?

_{Jay W. Richards, George Gilder and William A. Dembski
May 1, 2006}

In the closing session of the 1998 Telecosm conference, hosted by Gilder Publishing and Forbes at Lake Tahoe, inventor and author Ray Kurzweil engaged a number of critics. He advocated “Strong Artificial Intelligence” (AI), the claim that a computational process sufficiently capable of … » Go

The Privileged Planet Marks Second Anniversary with Release of Teacher’s Guide

_{Discovery Institute
March 7, 2006}

Click here to download the free preview of The Privileged Planet Teacher Guide. SEATTLE, MAR. 7– The late astronomer Carl Sagan spoke for many when he said: “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the … » Go

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
November 13, 2005}

Underlying Darwin’s repudiation of creationist legitimacy lay an entirely different conception of science than had prevailed among earlier naturalists. Darwin’s attacks on his creationist and idealist opponents in part expressed and in part established an emerging positivistic … » Go

The Privileged Planet

_{The Center for Science and Culture
October 3, 2005}

Astronomers are discovering that the earth is anything but unremarkable and that it may very well be unique in its ability to support intelligent life. Dr. Jay Richards, co-author of the provocative new book The Privileged Planet, will discuss why the earth’s location and design make not … » Go

There’s Not Enough Bias in the Media!

_{Bruce Chapman
September 15, 2005}

It has only been whispered before, but finally an article in The Columbia Journalism Review publicly and overtly recommends a policy of bias in covering the evolution issue. Let us thank “Undoing Darwin,” by Chris Mooney and Matthew C. Nisbet, in CJR’s September/October issue. Here is a … » Go

A Grand Conspiracy

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
July 11, 2005}

NOTE: This letter is a response to a letter published last week in the Ames Tribune. Click here to access a PDF of the original letter. It is well known among rhetoricians that to resort to ad hominem attack is to admit you have no valid argument against your opponent’s position. This is … » Go

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