Intelligent Design

This article, published by CBS News, mentions Discovery Institute: The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, cradle of the intelligent design theory, produced a video saying, “There is, in fact, no entity in the known universe that stores and processes information more efficiently than the DNA molecule. Every DNA has 3 billion individual characteristics.” The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by PennLive, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The rest Read More ›

This article, published by The Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute and Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which funds research into intelligent design and of which Behe is a founding fellow, filed a friend of the court brief late Monday urging the judge to consider the teaching of intelligent design constitutional, Read More ›

This article, published by The New York Times, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›

This article, published by The Washington Post, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Michael Behe: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell. The Read More ›

SEATTLE – A parent in California is suing the National Science Foundation for using more than a half-million federal dollars to develop a website that encourages science teachers to use religion to promote evolution. In announcing the suit Larry Caldwell, President of Quality Science Education for All, who is co-counsel in the suit with the Pacific Justice Institute, said, “the Read More ›

Harrisburg, PA –— Today, the Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think tank researching intelligent design, filed an Amicus Curiae (i.e. “Friend of the Court”) brief in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case urging the judge to rule that it is not unconstitutional to teach about the scientific theory of intelligent design. The filing of the brief coincides with Read More ›

Click here to read a review (PDF) of Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross’ book, “Creationism’s Trojan Horse” by Jonathan Witt, from a forthcoming issue of the philosophy journal Philosophia Christi.

This article, published by The Spokesman-Review, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow David DeWolf: “If my boss can tell me, in effect, what the script is, how to read from that script, then I’ve lost my independence as a faculty member,” said David DeWolf, a professor at Gonzaga School of Law who is also a senior fellow at the Read More ›