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^{Wesley J. Smith
October 9, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

Twin Killing

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 9, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

ALAS, POOR MARY. She’s the conjoined twin in England, united at the chest with her stronger sister Jodie, and she’s been called a parasite, a tumor, a bloodsucker: someone whose “primitive” brain makes her life unworthy of protecting. And all that by two British courts, which have wrenched away from her parents the right to decide whether or not to Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
October 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

How Intelligent Is Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

Stephen C. Meyer’s article “DNA and Other Designs” captures the heart of the scientific case against the materialist ideology that rules biology. Neither physical laws nor chance can write meaningful text (complex specified information). Chance produces only meaningless disorder, and law produces only simple repetition. That is why no one has ever observed natural selection or any other natural process creating new genetic information by a combination of law and chance; it is every bit as impossible as a perpetual motion machine. Professor Meyer’s article will produce angry and baffled responses not because there is any real objection to the logic, but because the aim of biology in the era of Darwin has been to support a materialist worldview rather than to investigate the data impartially. Thanks to Stephen Meyer and to First Things for helping to bring that era to a close. Read More ›

^{Dr. Patricia Lines
September 15, 2000
Education}

Does WASL Past the Test?

_{Dr. Patricia Lines
September 15, 2000
Education}

WASL scores are here and the news is mostly good. You may guess by now that the WASL (pronounced WAHsil) is not something you do in December. It’s the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. It includes brain-teasing math questions, interesting literature selections to read and critique, demanding listening problems that require some note-taking skills, among other things. It makes you Read More ›

Hallstatt square in Austria Alps mountain

^{Nancy Pearcey
September 15, 2000
Intelligent Design}

A New Foundation for Positive Cultural Change

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 15, 2000
Intelligent Design}

Pinker argues that the fundamental premise of ethics has been disproved by science. "Ethical theory," he writes, "requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents whose behavior is uncaused." Yet, "the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events." Read More ›

^{Kathryn Lindskoog
September 1, 2000
CS Lewis}