Intelligent Design

These two letters, published by The Daily Telegraph, are about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer’s article in the Daily Telegraph: Sir – Stephen Meyer’s article (Opinion, January 28) on intelligent design was a thoughtful and calm outline of the background to the debate. Professor Colin Reeves Sir – Most readers of books by Michael Behe or William Dembski find Read More ›

Dr. Philip S. Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at Penn State University, has issued an open letter to the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee. With Dr. Skell’s permission we have published the full text of the letter below. Jan. 20, 2005 Dr. JoAnne AndersonExecutive DirectorS.C. Education Oversight Committee Read More ›

Seattle – Ohio’s science standards are not going to be downgraded by an education foundation as was mistakenly reported in the Dayton Daily News and elsewhere in Ohio this week.  Chester Finn, President of the Fordham Foundation, released a statement saying: “Just to clarify, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has no plans to revisit or alter Ohio’s (or any other state’s) Read More ›

We can expect more battles about Darwin before school boards across the country. But who cares? Impatient by now with the legal and religious debate around intelligent design, many of us may wonder just that. In fact we all need to care — Darwinian theory has practical ramifications beyond the narrow question of what mechanism drives evolution. Darwinists say the Read More ›

Original Article “What is it about even the slightest dissent from Darwin’s theory of natural selection that drives liberal elites (and even some conservative elites) bonkers?” Adam Wolfson asks that question in “Survival of the Evolution Debate: Why Darwin Is Still a Lightning Rod,” an essay published in the January 16, 2006 edition of The Weekly Standard. Wolfson now serves Read More ›

Original Article Darwinists must be an endangered species. How else to explain their 80-year need for court protection to ensure their survival? In 1925, an ACLU-driven defense team in the Scopes-Monkey Trial wanted a court to declare that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional. In recent weeks, in a courtroom in Dover, Pa., the same organization applauded a Read More ›

This article, published by LewRockwell.com, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Time and again, neo-Darwinists (the somewhat poor term I shall use to describe the defenders of the orthodox view) have accused Michael Behe and other IDers as completely ignorant and/or deceptive. The rest of the article can be found here.

Seattle – A California high school has agreed to withdraw an elective philosophy class titled “Philosophy of Design,” which Discovery Institute said was misrepresenting the theory. “We are pleased that the school district followed our recommendation to withdraw this class,” said Casey Luskin, an attorney with the Institute. “From the very beginning this course was not formulated properly and was Read More ›

Original Article Opponents of “intelligent design” are naturally quite cock-a-hoop about their victory in the Dover, Pa., school board case. The board had proposed to have a short statement read in classes on evolution, saying that evolution was a theory rather than an established fact, and that students should be aware that there was an alternative theory, which asserted that Read More ›

Original Article The definition of “creationism” has become cloudier with a federal judge’s decision last Dec. 20 that barred mention of “intelligent design” theory when schools treat evolution —- a ruling that’s likely to affect disputes in Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and elsewhere. Most Americans are creationists in the sense of belief in God as the Creator taught by Christianity, Islam Read More ›