The Center for Science and Culture
Many Americans are focused on what should be taught in the schools regarding our universe and the Earth — how life as we know it has come to be. This has become a hot-button issue, igniting controversy in Kansas over what should be taught in the public schools and in Pennsylvania, where a high profile trial is taking place over Read More ›
This article, published by The Christian Post, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John G. West: John G. West, a political scientist and Associate Director of the Discovery Institutes Center for Science & Culture pointed out that an article titled ”Intelligent Design Might Soon Meet Its Maker” by Laurie Goodstein erroneously reported that the recent changes in the Kansas science standards Read More ›
Original Article When President Bush declared his support for the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) theory in public schools along with Darwinian evolution, both he and the theory itself drew a lot of criticism. Among the many lines of attack the critics launch, one theme remains strikingly constant: the notion that ID is a Trojan Horse of Christian fundamentalists whose Read More ›
Original Article My new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, addresses many topics, ranging from endangered species to the alleged warfare of religion and science. But two in particular have repeatedly come up in radio interviews: global warming and intelligent design (I have chapters on both). Most on the Right are agreed on global warming: It’s mostly politics dressed Read More ›
This article, published by the Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture: However, several institute fellows are on the center’s advisory board, including such prominent ID advocates as William Dembski and Michael Behe, and Luskin recently became the program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The rest of Read More ›
By now, everyone who follows the news has heard about intelligent design (ID). Contrary to caricatures, it’s a theory that draws on insights in well-established fields such as information and probability theory, forensics, and the philosophy of science. Design theorists argue that certain features of the natural world bear markers of intelligent agency. For instance, a whole series of physical Read More ›
Original Article The hotly worded federal court decision spanking a Pennsylvania school board for raising doubts about evolution sparked the usual fulminations by evolution advocates and its discontents. That’s unfortunate. In reality, the actions of the Dover school board and the court decision are both regrettable. The trial record, at least as summarized in the decision of federal District Court Read More ›
