Intelligent Design

This article, published by The Christian Post, mentions Discovery Institute: “NAS manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design,” argues a Jan. 3 report by Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think tank, in response to the book. The rest of the article can be found here.

“Religion poisons everything,” Christopher Hitchens’s bestseller God Is Not Great declares in a constant, hymn-like refrain. “We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to Read More ›

Washington, DC — The National Academy of Sciences has published yet another report on evolution, titled “”Science, Evolution, and Creationism.”” In the ample space of 89 pages, the NAS manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design, and rehash the same standard Darwinist arguments which have been refuted by critical scientists time and again. The NAS exaggerates Read More ›

This article, published by Christianity Today, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow David Berlinski: It’s hard not to envy the Berlinskis. … Father David, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, is a philosopher-mathematician who writes popular science books like A Tour of the Calculus (1996), taking on Darwinists like Read More ›

To the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee’s views about evolution and Mitt Romney’s Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics. At the Read More ›

This article, published by The Christian Post, mentions Discovery Institute: The Discovery Institute plans to post a slide show presentation critiquing the online materials from PBS-NOVA’s “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial” documentary on www.judgingpbs.com. The rest of the article can be found here.

Mike Huckabee may very well win the Republican caucus in Iowa on January 3, but he will not be elected president next November. I say this based partly on my own subjective response as a Religious Right voter who appreciates the challenge the ex-governor and evangelical pastor poses to the rest of this campaign’s disappointing field of Republican hopefuls. Huckabee Read More ›

At Stanford University in the spring of 2005, I had my first experience of being picketed. Organized by a campus group calling itself Rational Thought, the picketers carried signs protesting the presence of Intelligent Design (ID) proponents on campus. Several local atheist groups joined the controversy, sparking colorful stories in the local newspapers. For the full article, click here.

This article, published by World Magazine, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: “All these emails clearly show that faculty had prejudged my case based entirely on my ID views about a year before the tenure case came down,” said Gonzalez … The rest of the article can be found here.