In this Think Tank interview, Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses his paper on the Cambrian Explosion that was published in a peer-reviewed journal. Richard Sternberg, the editor of the journal at the time Meyer’s paper was published, was afterwards dismissed from his role.
Although Discovery Institute does not advocate requiring the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, it does believe there is nothing unconstitutional about discussing the scientific theory of design in the classroom. Read More ›
Is Discovery Institute trying to eliminate or reduce the coverage of evolution in textbooks? No. Read More ›
Legal scholar and former Discovery Fellow Francis J. Beckwith recounts the legal history of court battles over the teaching of biological origins. Though many thought that the landmark Supreme Court case Edwards v. Aguillard would permanently settle these questions by ruling creationism unconstitutional, Beckwith observes that intelligent design poses a new challenge to legal scholars. Beckwith, who has published about Read More ›
Editor’s Note: This piece originally occurred as a four part blog post on Evolutionnews.org on December 2005. Dover in Review, Part 1: Is Judge Jones an activist judge? Dover in Review, pt. 2: Did Judge Jones read the evidence submitted to him in the Dover trial? Dover in Review, pt. 3: Did Judge Jones accurately describe the content and early Read More ›
SEATTLE — “The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won’t work,” said Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think tank Read More ›
