Intelligent Design

Showtime Networks will air filmmaker Randy Olson’’s fanciful evolution film Flock of Dodos this week, apparently not realizing that key parts of the film are so wildly inaccurate that they amount to a hoax. In response, Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman has sent a letter requesting air time to respond to the film’’s various false claims. Flock of Dodos makes Read More ›

This article, published by The Ames Tribune, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: Guillermo Gonzalez, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics who argues for the theory of intelligent design, was denied tenure this semester by Iowa State University. The rest of the article can be found here.

May 11, 2007 Matthew C. Blank Chairman and CEO Showtime Networks, Inc. 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Dear Mr. Blank: Next week Showtime will air an independent film titled Flock of Dodos (the “Film”). Flock of Dodos is directed and narrated by Randy Olson, produced by Shifting Baseline Productions and Prairie Starfish Productions, and distributed by Shifting Baselines and Read More ›

In Flock of Dodos oceanographer Randy Olson makes a number of false assertions about Discovery Institute and scientists and scholars associated with the Institute. Here we expose some of the most egregious false facts in the film. The Truth Introductions: Showtime Falls for Filmmaker’s Hoax Olson’s Hoax on Haeckel’s Embryos Olson’s Hoax on Discovery’s Budget Podcasts and Videos: Video: A Read More ›

This article, published by The Christian Post, refers to Discovery Institute: Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes the field of intelligent design (ID), has posted a series of comments on its website accusing Wikipedia moderators of being unfairly biased against their view. The rest of the article can be found here. The Discovery Institute article that the article above quotes Read More ›

The New York Times ran a front page story on an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) debate earlier this week about whether Darwinism can be aligned with conservatism. It is currently the most popular blogged article, and the third most e-mailed. It mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellows John G. West and George Gilder: There Mr. Arnhart was grouped with John Derbyshire, Read More ›

This article, published by Townhall, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellows Stephen C. Meyer: Bethell tells of the publication by the peer-reviewed “Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington” of an article on the Cambrian Explosion by the Discovery Institute’s Steven Meyer. The rest of the article can be found here.

George Gilder’s article from National Review last July is worth recalling as Mr. Gilder and John West, another leading Discovery Institute fellow, debate Prof. Larry Arnhardt and John Derbyshire (National Review science writer) at American Enterprise Institute this week.