The Center for Science and Culture
The main tactics of the Darwinist response to Darwin Doubters and intelligent design proponents are, first, to misrepresent the opposition’s positions and, second, to try to keep the opposition from speaking for itself. They have managed to get some university professors fired or sidelined, but overall one has to think they have a losing approach that is unfit for survival—at Read More ›
“I’m not sure I fully understand what exactly intelligent design means,” explained Ohio’s hapless governor, Bob Taft, recently. At least he was honest. A lack of knowledge about intelligent design hasn’t stopped many politicians and pundits from condemning it. Howard Dean, for example, has asserted that “there’s no factual evidence for intelligent design,” although it’s doubtful he knows anything about Read More ›
In a blatant attack on academic freedom a small number of faculty at Iowa State University have organized a petition denouncing intelligent design as unscientific and urged the university community to essentially ban the theory from campus. “The Darwinist inquisition is spreading,” said Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think-tank researching the theory of intelligent design. “Darwinists Read More ›
We are animals in our appetites, and animals again in our instincts and emotions. We are animals in biology. Blood is blood, tissue is tissue, and cells are cells; and when everything is stripped away, we are animals in the organization of our genes, mindful now that but for a few alterations of the human genome, we might well be Read More ›
This essay was originally published in Uncommon Dissent (ISI Books, 2004) edited by William Dembski.
Evolutionary theory has had a major impact on the development of biology since the appearance of On the Origin of the Species in 1859. Over the century following publication of that book, experiments and field observations led to successive refinements of the Darwinian theory of evolution, and it was confidently proclaimed as the foundation of biology in the Darwin Centennial year of 1959.
Such confidence is not warranted today. New technologies developed in the past four decades have revealed to us the chemistry underlying biological processes. These technologies have revealed that life is far more complicated than was imagined in 1959, and that much of its complexity cannot easily be addressed by existing evolutionary theory. Indeed some of the major discoveries in the life sciences presented in this article were hardly anticipated by evolutionary theory, but instead came out of advances in experimental technologies.
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Dr. Meyer explains intelligent design to host Tavis Smiley and discusses how evolution should be taught in schools. Audio
Upfront / Letters In an article1 about the recent Smithsonian screening of “The Privileged Planet,” based on a book I co-authored, Randall Kremer, the museum’s director of public affairs commented, “The scientific content for the most part is accurate. The problem we have is that the science is used to draw a philosophical conclusion.” Perhaps a more accurate statement would Read More ›