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Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution
The Center for Science and Culture
May 28, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

Michael Behe on Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution

The Center for Science and Culture
May 28, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

In this online Zoom webinar, Dr. Behe will review the biochemistry of viruses in general and COVID-19 in particular. He will use these topical examples to illustrate a fundamental principle: Darwinian and other unintelligent evolutionary mechanisms can change life marginally, in ways that are medically important, yet they cannot explain life’s complex structure. Rather, the elegant molecular structures of life Read More ›

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Center for Wealth, Poverty, and Morality
May 20, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics

Gilder Fellows Virtual Seminar

Center for Wealth, Poverty, and Morality
May 20, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics
The Gilder Fellows Seminar is an intimate study experience with Discovery Institute Fellows in Seattle, Washington, in July 2020. At the Gilder Fellows Seminar, you’ll have the chance to interact with scholars George Gilder, Michael Medved, Jay Richards, John West, and others. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
May 6, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics

The Human Face of Poverty

Discovery Institute
May 6, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics
Please join us Thursday, May 28 at 12pm PST for an online lecture featuring Chris Arnade, author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. Discovery Institute's Christopher F. Rufo will interview Arnade about the dynamics of American poverty, his long road trips through America's "forgotten cities," and the political dimension of anti-poverty policy. Read More ›
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John G. West
April 29, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

ISI Webinar on Science, Scientism, and Society

John G. West
April 29, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
From artificial intelligence to mandatory stay-at-home orders and everything in-between, what role should scientists — and their modern approach to scientific investigation — play in the critical decisions that we must make on such controversial issues? Read More ›
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Richard Sternberg and Jonathan Wells
April 9, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

Whale of an Evolution Tale

Richard Sternberg and Jonathan Wells
April 9, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
Join us for the live, online premiere of the new video Whale of an Evolution Tale, the latest in the Long Story Short series of videos. Immediately following the video we’ll have a live Q&A about whale evolution with biologists Jonathan Wells and Richard Sternberg. Read More ›
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Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
Discovery Institute

Purpose and Hope in a Time of Turmoil

Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
Discovery Institute
During a recent staff meeting, two Discovery Institute staff members referenced C.S. Lewis’s essay, On Living in the Atomic Age. In this new era of coronavirus uncertainty, Lewis’s words offer comfort in knowing that the situation we face is not unique, nor unprecedented. The world has faced many plagues before, and wars, and suffering, and the economic uncertainty that often accompanies these periods. And — as has been the case throughout history — human beings face death, regardless of its cause. As I write this, a close friend is suffering severely (and bravely) from cancer. I feared for him, and prayed for him, long before coronavirus came on the scene. Now we fear another contagion en masse. Read More ›
Bruce Chapman
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute

The 2020 Census is Here and it’s Counting on You!

Bruce Chapman
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute

In mid-March you will receive a letter from the US Government preparing you to reply to the 2020 Decennial Census. Therewith starts a large series of changes, from numbers for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives to the allocation of $1.5 Trillion in federal aid to states and localities. The 2020 Census also will give us a new Read More ›

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Discovery Institute
January 29, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute, Technology

Discovery Founding Chairman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Seattle Business Magazine

Discovery Institute
January 29, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute, Technology

Discovery Institute founding board chair Tom Alberg, who served on the board from 1991 to 2004, has been given a lifetime achievement award by Seattle Business Magazine for what they call his “uncanny knack for anticipating tech’s next blockbuster hit.” In addition to his tech senses, he also has a deep understanding of transportation and mobility challenges in the Puget Read More ›

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The Center for Science and Culture
January 11, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design

Design & Designer: The Convergence of Science & Theology

The Center for Science and Culture
January 11, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
Given enough time, can bacteria mutate into insects by chance? Can random mutations account for the existence of butterflies and whales and platypuses? What about the origin of the universe or the origin of man's ability to reason? Come and hear scientists and scholars discuss the limitations of chance and the abundant testimonies to design, as they come to realization from physics to proteins. Read More ›