The Center for Science and Culture
While most organized celebrations help knit cultures together, according to the organizers of Darwin Day, those traditional holidays “have often been, and continue to be, the source of serious conflicts.” The ACLU could not agree more. And so a new celebration has arrived, one complete with its own symbols, carols, and talismans, and one its organizers hope will “unite a Read More ›
STRIKE UP THE BAND! Around the world today, February 12, admirers of Charles Darwin will celebrate the great man’s 198th birthday with lectures, concerts, and exhibits. Darwin Day, as it’s called, is meant to be cheerful, with a bit of good-natured triumphalism, marking what celebrants see as the intellectual victory of Darwinism, the theory of evolution by the purely material Read More ›
SEATTLE — Another 100 scientists have joined the ranks of scientists from around the world publicly stating their doubts about the adequacy of Darwin’s theory of evolution. “Darwinism is a trivial idea that has been elevated to the status of the scientific theory that governs modern biology,” says dissent list signer Dr. Michael Egnor. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery Read More ›
The latest book in the debate over intelligent design (ID) and evolution borrows its name from the Star Wars saga: Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. The author, Thomas Woodward, a rhetorician and historian of ID, wrote his prior book, the award-winning Doubts About Darwin, on the origins of the ID movement. In Darwin Strikes Back, Woodward Read More ›
Douglas J. Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, (3rd ed, Sinauer, 1998), pg. 653. Kenneth R Miller & Joseph Levine, Biology: The Living Science (Prentice Hall, 1998), pg. 223. Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart, Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, (8th ed, Wadsworth, 1998), pg. 317. Kenneth R Miller & Joseph Levine, Biology (4th ed., Prentice Hall, 1998), pg. 238. William D. Read More ›
As Jonathan Dudley pointed out in his recent column (“Evolution Sunday not so benign,” 1/24), hundreds of Christian churches across America will celebrate Darwin’s theory on Feb. 11. Why will they do this? A little background is helpful here. Evolution can mean many things. Broadly speaking, it means simply change over time, something no sane person doubts. In biblical interpretation, Read More ›
The Winter 2007 issue of Montana Law Review features an exchange of views about the Kitzmiller v. Dover (2005) intelligent design ruling. The lead article in the issue, “Intelligent Design Will Survive Kitzmiller v. Dover” is authored by Discovery Institute Senior Fellows David DeWolf and John West along with Program Officer in Public Policy and Legal Affairs Casey Luskin. A Read More ›
When Michael J. Behe’s first book, Darwin’s Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers and a growing number of scientists were intrigued by Behe’s claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery of the cell. Now, in his long-awaited follow-up, Behe presents far more than a challenge Read More ›
Explore Evolution: The Case for and Against Neo-Darwinism is a new supplementary textbook published by Hill House Publishers. For more information visit http://www.exploreevolution.com/ Read More ›
