Darwin Day and the New Campaign to Inject Religion into Public Schools
Ed: Click here for video of the author’s Darwin Day lecture at ID the Future. As schools and museums celebrate the 199th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday today, a new push is being made to inject religion into the nation’s science classrooms. But it’s not coming from those you might think. After years of accusing Darwin’s critics of trying to Read More ›
Proselytizing for Darwin’s God in the Classroom
For years supporters of Darwin’s theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation’s science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education are cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution.
Join Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America (ISI Books), as he presents a tale of hypocrisy and hubris on the part of leading Darwinists and examines how they are willing to undermine the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause to promote their views. This event is being taped for broadcast on the web as part of the ID the Future Darwin Day broadcast on Darwin Day, February 12.
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Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez And Academic Persecution
Last updated February 8, 2008 About Dr. Gonzalez Intelligent Design Was the Issue After All Background to the Guillermo Gonzalez Story Q & A about the Guillermo Gonzalez Story Biosketch of Dr. Gonzalez List of Dr. Gonzalez’s Refereed Science Publications Statement of Dr. Gonzalez on Academic Persecution From 2005 List of Publications Key facts and timeline Recent Media Coverage Brit Read More ›
ISU Intelligent Design Prof Loses Tenure Bid
This article, published by The Daily Iowan, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: On Thursday, the state Board of Regents voted to uphold ISU’s decision on Guillermo Gonzalez, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics. The rest of the article can be found here.
Regents Deny Gonzalez’s Tenure Appeal
This article, published by The Ames Tribune, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: The Iowa Board of Regents voted this morning to deny the tenure appeal of Guillermo Gonzalez, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University who argues for the theory of intelligent design. The rest of the article Read More ›
The Abolition of Man? How Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
“An age of science is necessarily an age of materialism,” wrote Hugh Elliot early in the last century. “Ours is a scientific age, and it may be said with truth that we are all materialists now.”[1] One does not have to look far to discover the continued accuracy of Elliot’s assessment. Scientific materialism—the claim that everything in the universe can Read More ›
Stellar Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Denied Fair Hearing by Iowa State Board of Regents
The Board of Regents of the State of Iowa has denied the tenure appeal of Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Gonzalez’s appeal has been ongoing since the summer of 2007, when he was first denied tenure by ISU. “We are extremely disappointed that the Board of Regents refused to give Dr. Gonzalez Read More ›