The Center for Science and Culture
As a doctoral student at the University of Kansas in the ’90s, I found that my professors came in all stripes, and that lazy ideas didn’t get off easy. If some professor wanted to preach the virtues of communism after it had failed miserably in the Soviet Union, he was free to do so, but students were also free to Read More ›
SEATTLE–Standing in stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature reveals a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Written by Dr. Benjamin Wiker and Dr. Jonathan Witt of the Center for Science & Culture, the groundbreaking new book shows that nature offers all of Read More ›
The Kansas state science standards are available from the Kansas State Dept. of Education at http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/sciencestd.html 1) What does Discovery Institute advocate for science education policy? The Institute favors teaching students more about biological and chemical evolution, including scientific criticisms of these theories raised in peer-reviewed science journals. This is a common-sense approach that will benefit students, teachers, and parents. Read More ›
This article, published by The Hutchinson News, mentions Discovery Institute: Calvert’s tour comes shortly after the announcement of a new Web site by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which also promotes intelligent design, a theory that certain natural features are so complex they are the product of an intelligent cause rather than random mutation and natural selection. The rest of the Read More ›
Original Article One of the hottest topics the Kansas Board of Education has tackled of late – and a key issue in the contests for the open seats on the body – is science standards for the state’s public schools. The six conservatives on the 10-member body adopted revisions to the standards in December, inserting new critiques and question marks Read More ›
This article, published by The Kansas City Star, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: “Students need to have an accurate assessment of the state of the facts in regard to Darwin’s theory,” said John West, a vice president for the Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based, anti-evolution Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
This article, published by The Examiner, refers to a book written by David DeWolf, John West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture: In their new book, “Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision,” authors David DeWolf, John West, Casey Luskin and Jonathan Witt criticize the manner in which Judge Read More ›
Editors Note: Discovery senior fellow, technology guru and conservative economist George Gilder has a major essay in the new issue of National Review, entitled “Evolution and Me: Darwinian Theory has Become an All-Purpose Obstacle to Thought Rather than an Enabler of Scientific Advance.” The piece offers a unique and fresh perspective on the issue of materialism vs. design and is Read More ›
About the Author: For the last 28 years Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig has been working on mutation genetics at the University of Bonn and the Max-Planck-Institute für Züchtungsforschung in Cologne (Bonn 7 years, Cologne 21 years).The present article represents his personal opinion on the topic and does not reflect the opinion of his former or present employer. The author, not a fellow Read More ›
What are the Kansas science standards really about? Kansans will now be able to learn for themselves as three experts will explain why the revised standards were necessary at a series of free symposiums across Kansas. The efforts to mislead Kansas citizens about the state’s new science standards will hopefully be curbed by these symposiums. “Practically everything opponents have said about these changes is Read More ›