The Center for Science and Culture
AUSTIN, TX — Discovery Institute leaders today said they will sign the Texas Freedom Network’s “Stand up for science” petition which states, “I support sound science and the teaching of evolution.” “We’ve been standing up for sound science for a long time,” said Institute President Bruce Chapman. “We’ve been calling for biology textbooks to stand up and expand their teaching of Read More ›
AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Freedom Network this week is launching an attack on science education in Texas, seeking to restrict the flow of information to students. TFN is asking for people to sign their petition supposedly to protect science textbooks from censorship, and claiming that there are efforts to insert creationism in textbooks, which is completely false. The truth Read More ›
Click here to open a PDF of the letter Two dozen professors from seven Texas universities have signed an open letter to the State Board of Education (see below) urging it to ensure that biology textbooks present both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological and chemical evolution. The open letter and list of signers, released Tuesday by Discovery Institute, Read More ›
When students study Darwin’s theory of evolution, should they learn only about its strengths, or should they also hear about its weaknesses? And should they learn about the best current evidence for evolution, or should they study outdated examples that have been discredited by the scientific community? Those are the real issues Discovery Institute has raised with the Texas State Read More ›
Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct — eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part of his life Read More ›
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Reprinted from The Creation Hypothesis, ed. by J.P. Moreland (InterVarsity Press, 1994) During the last thirty years the idea of design has undergone a renaissance in some scientific and philosophical circles. Developments in physics and cosmology, in particular, have placed the word design back in the scientific vocabulary as physicists have unveiled a universe apparently fine-tuned for the possibility of Read More ›
I. Introduction The conventional wisdom in constitutional law is that the debate that began with the famous Scopes trial in 19251 over the teaching of origins in public school science classrooms officially ended in 1987. In that year the U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard, 2 struck down a Louisiana statute, the Balanced Treatment Act, that required its public Read More ›
(Belated) congratulations to Senior Fellow David Berlinski for being included amongst the best science writers for 2002. David’s article What Brings a World Into Being? from Commentary Magazine is included in Matt Ridley’s The Best American Science Writing 2002. Congratulations David! David is author of the now historical The Deniable Darwin. His books include A Tour of the Calculus, The Read More ›