Darwin and the Nazis
Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, and some other Darwinists are horrified that the forthcoming documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will promote Intelligent Design to a large audience when it opens at over a thousand theaters nationwide on April 18. Ironically, their campaign to discredit Ben Stein and the film confirms its main point, which is to expose the persecution meted out Read More ›
Is Richard Dawkins a Raelian?
This is rich: Richard Dawkins—whose official website claims modestly to be “a clear thinking oasis”—made an incredible statement in the new movie Expelled, asserting that it is “an intriguing possibility” that space aliens “seeded” life here on Planet Earth. (I haven’t seen the movie, but did obtain this partial transcript. The emphasis is mine.) Moderator Ben Stein asks Dawkins how Read More ›
What You Ought To Be Reading: The Devil’s Delusion
This article, published by the Chicago Tribune, contains a review of Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow David Berlinski: In “The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretentions” (Crown Forum, 2008), David Berlinski takes on the growing crop of smugly swashbuckling non-believers, including the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins … The rest of Read More ›
Review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Myths about ‘Expelled’
This article, published by BreakPoint, discusses the documentary Expelled, which features people from Discovery Institute. The article can be found here.
Seriously Funny
This article, published by World Magazine, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow David Berlinski: One Expelled scene shows Stein, mathematician David Berlinski (a sophisticated Paris resident), and nuclear physicist Gerald Schroeder (wearing a yarmulke), all now ID advocates, discussing the importance of freedom as they visit a remnant of the Wall. The rest of the article Read More ›
Two More States Introduce Academic Freedom Bills and Missouri Moves to Protect Scientists’ Interpretations of Scientific Research
Legislators in Louisiana and Missouri have introduced academic freedom bills that would ensure the freedom of teachers to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of theories of biological and chemical evolution. Florida legislators introduced a similar bill recently which passed through its first committee hearing on a 4-1 vote. Read More ›
Agnostic takes New Atheists to Task for Trying to Hijack Science
The Devils Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions By David Berlinski (Crown Forum Books April 2008 Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement — one that now Read More ›
How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not)
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows more persuasively than ever before that Dawkins is wrong and that the origin of life continues to pose insurmountable difficulties to unguided material processes. The authors discuss why traditional origin-of-life research has failed and Read More ›