The Center for Science and Culture
We hadn’t planned on watching “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record,” a documentary that criticizes Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But we know we probably won’t see it at well-established science centers and museums anytime soon. A lawsuit on the West Coast is accusing LA’s California Science Center of canceling the October screening of the documentary, which Read More ›
This article, published by the Los Angeles Times, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: “We want to find out what really happened,” said John West, the senior fellow in charge of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Government agencies that allow the public to rent their facilities can’t “pick and choose only the viewpoints they like,” he Read More ›
The party’s over, it’s time to call it a day. They’ve burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away. It’s time to wind up the masquerade. Just make your mind up — the piper must be paid. The party’s over, the candles flicker and dim. You danced and dreamed through the night, it seemed to be right just being with Read More ›
Believers in human-caused global climate change have been placed under an uncomfortable spotlight recently. That is thanks to the Climategate scandal, centering on e-mails hacked from the influential Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England’s University of East Anglia. The e-mails show scientists from various academic institutions hard at work suppressing dissent from other scientists who have doubts on global warming, Read More ›
This article, published by Salvo, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell: In what would be typical British understatement, Dr. Stephen Meyer calls DNA replication a “curiosity.” Here is the conundrum: DNA needs proteins to replicate, but these same proteins are encoded in DNA. So which came first? The rest of the Read More ›
To mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, advocates for intelligent design and Darwinian evolution squared off to debate the origins of life, the challenges to Darwin’s theory of evolution and the alternative theory of intelligent design. The American Freedom Alliance sponsored this debate as a part of their series of events celebrating the 150th anniversary Read More ›
To mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, advocates for intelligent design and Darwinian evolution squared off to debate the origins of life, the challenges to Darwin’s theory of evolution and the alternative theory of intelligent design. The American Freedom Alliance sponsored this debate as a part of their series of events celebrating the 150th anniversary Read More ›
“If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you.” Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Himmelfarb and her haters Noted physician Thomas Fuller was an expert on “eruptive fevers,” and so it seems fitting to open this essay with his wry but telling observation on enemies in public life, for perhaps no contemporary historian has spawned more “eruptive Read More ›
At National Review Online, conservative curmudgeon John Derbyshire has weighed in on the Climategate scandal by encouraging conservatives not to jump on the anti-science bandwagon. I share his worry and find his advice is good so far as it goes; but I think Derbyshire’s defense of science might actually encourage the skepticism he wants to prevent. Most of the trouble comes from Read More ›
As I have argued at length in my Darwin Myth, evolution and Darwinism are not the same thing. Darwin’s version of evolution is properly called “Darwinism.” Darwinism was largely defined by the skeptical Enlightenment secularism of the 18th and 19th centuries. Evolution is the thing that happened, the marvelous and still largely mysterious complex of evidence that gives every indication that nature is Read More ›