The Center for Science and Culture
This article, published by the Iowa State Daily, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: On Monday, the Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent-design organization of which Gonzalez is a fellow, released e-mails revealing that some physics and astronomy department faculty members had identified Gonzalez’s research in intelligent design as a factor in denying his tenure. Read More ›
Last night Brit Hume highlighted the Guillermo Gonzalez tenure battle during the “Grapevine” segment of his nightly news show on the Fox News channel. You can watch the segment online here.
Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril David Klinghoffer, Doubleday, 256 pages, $24.95 David Klinghoffer’s Shattered Tablets is painful to read. First of all, as a writer I slapped myself on the forehead. Why didn’t I think of this! Second, his analysis of the decrepit condition of contemporary society is all too accurate. We can be Read More ›
Watch the process of DNA synthesis and learn why the founder of the theory of chemical evolution ended up rejecting his own idea. For more information or to order a copy of Unlocking the Mystery of Life.
Des Moines, IA — Iowa State University faculty secretly plotted to deny tenure to a distinguished astronomer, as revealed in private emails written by faculty and administrators at ISU. Discovery Institute is making public a record of secret emails exchanged among faculty at Iowa State University about noted ISU astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez. The emails demonstrate that an orchestrated campaign was Read More ›
This article, published by KDSM TV, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: “Intelligent design seeks to explain whether there are intelligent causes for the things we observe in nature,” he said. This is why Guillermo Gonzalez says his days are numbered at Iowa State University. The rest of the article can be found here.
Setting priorities in keeping with your values is a daily task for us all. I may, for example, feel the need to spend two hours exercising every day. But if that conflicts with my family responsibilities, I have to consult an overall worldview, a scheme of values, to decide which imperative comes first. So it goes in public life no Read More ›
Myth #1: There are no peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting intelligent design. Judge Jones said that ID “…has not generated peer-reviewed publications.” FACT: Judge Jones is simply wrong. Discovery Institute submitted an amicus brief to Judge Jones that documented various peer-reviewed publications, which he accepted into evidence. This is a fact based question which is hard to get wrong. The fact Read More ›
This article, published by The Baylor Lariat, mentions William Dembski and Robert Marks of Discovery Institute: But such was not the case in November of 2006 when Dembski arrived back on campus to work with Dr. Robert Marks, distinguished professor of computer and electrical engineering. The rest of the article can be found here.
As Oxford professor and arch-evangelist of atheism Richard Dawkins continues his crusade against religion, we finally have the first book-length critique of The God Delusion: Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (InterVarsity Press). One could hardly think of a more contrasting figure to Dawkins or a better apologist for Read More ›