Intelligent Design

This article appears in the legal journal University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy Vol. IV(1):326-353 (Fall, 2009), published by University of St. Thomas School of Law. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Abstract: In 2000, my coauthors and I published an article proposing that public schools would violate no constitutional prohibition (and would Read More ›

This article, published by The New American, mentions and quotes Discovery Institute: In 2001, the Discovery Institute launched a list of hundreds of scientists who dissent from Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. According to the Institute, “During recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, “artificial intelligence” research, and others have caused scientists to begin Read More ›

It’s the question that will never go away: Are we alone in the universe? These days, when most people ask that question, they’re not asking whether God or angels exists, but whether there is life—intelligent life—on a planet other than Earth. Just a few decades ago, many scientists believed there was intelligentlife on Mars, since it seems so similar to Earth. Read More ›

This article appears in the legal journal University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. IV(1):204-277 (Fall, 2009), published by University of St. Thomas School of Law. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Abstract: The inquiry method of teaching science stresses that students should understand not just scientific content, but also the processes of Read More ›

Supervisors at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory illegally harassed, demoted and humiliated a computer specialist and high-level system administrator for his beliefs about intelligent design, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court. BACKGROUND: David Coppedge has worked on the Cassini mission since 1997. In 2000 he earned recognition for excellence, receiving the important role of “Team Lead SA” (system Read More ›

PASADENA, CA—Supervisors at NASA’s prestigious Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) illegally harassed and demoted a high-level computer system administrator for expressing support of intelligent design to co-workers, according to a discrimination lawsuit filed in California Superior Court. The lawsuit (case number #BC435600) was filed by David Coppedge, an information technology specialist and system administrator on JPL’s Cassini mission to Saturn, the Read More ›

So what, in the end, can be said for Darwin's Sacred Cause? To Desmond and Moore's credit, they do a fine job of explaining how Darwin ended, pretty much once and for all, the old monogenist/polygenist controversy over human origins. But, as mentioned earlier, this was already known. Their critical thesis, namely, that Darwin's anti-slavery views were integral to the development of his evolutionary theory remains questionable, but perhaps more significantly, irrelevant.

I have read Christopher Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great twice, in preparation for a book I have co-written with Biola University philosopher Dr. John Mark Reynolds. Due to come out this spring, our book is titled Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong About the “New Atheism.” Because not all readers may know at once who the new atheists are, I will say Read More ›