A report issued by the peer review committee appointed to evaluate the credibility and legitimacy of the Michael Polanyi Center was finally released Tuesday morning, stating that despite controversy, it found the Center’s research legitimate. The committee, composed of eight respected scholars from all over the country and led by Dr. William F. Cooper, recommended that the university should “foster Read More ›
A controversial center at Baylor University researching the idea that life was created through “intelligent design” instead of evolution should be allowed to continue its work, an external review committee said Tuesday. The committee recommended that a faculty advisory committee be appointed to try to improve the academic center’s relationship with the rest of the university. It also recommended that Read More ›
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/143/11.0.html Several months ago we reported on the efforts of faculty at Baylor University to shut down the recently founded Michael Polanyi Center for Complexity, Information, and Design. The center, established by administrative fiat at the behest of Baylor President Robert B. Sloan, Jr., under the auspices of the university’s Institute for Faith and Learning, came under fire in part Read More ›
Looking closely, you can see why the leaders of the two major parties are so anxious about this presidential election, even while the electorate is generally unexcited or ambivalent. While a Gore victory would mean more or less the same busy legislative and regulatory agenda as in the past, with Congress most likely reverting to familiar Democratic control, a Bush Read More ›
The Cranach Institute wishes to express its dismay at the decision to remove William Dembski as Director of the Michael Polanyi Center (Metanews, 10/19/2000). Shortly before this announcement, we learned that the committee appointed to evaluate the status of the Center upheld the importance and legitimacy of Dr. Dembski’s work, while calling on the Center to be redefined in its Read More ›
So the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff took issue with a couple comments that George W. Bush made about Army readiness, and conservatives took issue with his taking issue. Then a group of retired senior officers publicly endorsed Mr. Bush, and it was the liberals’ turn to hissy fit. Then flowed all the ominous reminders — we’ve been Read More ›
Nine years ago, as Americans watched live coverage of Tomahawk cruise missiles changing lanes in downtown Baghdad and government-supplied video of smart bombs ringing bunker doorbells before exploding, it became obvious that a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) was underway. The obvious assessment of this RMA: Damn, we’re good. And so we are. Whatever else might be said of the Read More ›
A famous Oxford contemporary of C. S. Lewis, A. L. Rowse, died at age 93 on 3 October 1997 in Cornwall. Like Lewis, Rowse was a “politically incorrect” Oxford professor who said what he thought and acquired fame and popularity through his unusually lively writing. In spite of severe poverty and poor health, he eventually became a distinguished historian, an Read More ›
An Oxford researcher has checked the Ordnance Survey maps of the Kilns neighborhood, and the Kilns had no outside staircase in 1921 or 1936. (O/S maps are made only in times of major rebuilding or rerouting.) A stairway was added to the east wall after 1936, and it appears on the 1957 O/S map. It led from C. S. Lewis’s Read More ›
“I suspect that Doug Gresham knows very little about the finances of The Kilns, even though he supports Stan Mattson’s C. S. Lewis Foundation (at least to the extent of making appearances on their behalf). In fact, I wonder if any of those who support the foundation know much about the finances of The Kilns, other than its Board of Read More ›