Unraveling The Threads of Darwinist Paranoia
For years philosopher Barbara Forrest and biologist Paul Gross have been warning anyone who will listen about what they regard as a sinister conspiracy by proponents of intelligent design theory to abolish civil liberties, unify church and state, and “replace the scientific method with belief in God.” Their book Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design represents a culmination Read More ›
Today’s Fundamentalist Fanatics — As I See It
A Balanced Approach to Teach Evolution
One of the most basic questions that children ask is, ”Where did we come from?” In science education policy, however, the more relevant question is, how do we best prepare our teachers to answer the student who inquires about our origins and the origin of other living things? The answer is at the heart of a contentious debate regarding the Read More ›
Gilder Responds to Wired: The Materialist Superstition
Editors Note: In October Wired magazine proclaimed on its cover “The Plot To Kill Evolution.” Inside readers found a story entitled “The Crusade Against Evolution” portraying work on the theory of intelligent design at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC) as a religiously-motivated scheme to smuggle a disguised creationism into the public schools, rather than an evidence-based scientific Read More ›
Rebuttals to Critiques of Meyer’s PBSW Article
Part I: One Long BluffPart II: Neo-Darwinism’s Unsolved Problems The September 9, 2004 issue of Nature reported the publication of an article advocating the theory of intelligent design in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The article, written by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen C. Meyer and titled “The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories,” was published in the Read More ›
Neo-Darwinism’s Unsolved Problem of the Origin of Morphological Novelty
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen C. Meyer’s recent article, “The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories,” published in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (PBSW) 1, has provoked a storm of criticism from Darwinists because it develops a case for the theory of intelligent design (ID) in a peer-reviewd science journal. So far, however, the only Read More ›
Senior Fellow Richard Weikart responds to Sander Gliboff
Discovery Institute fellow Richard Weikart has published the following response to Sander Gliboff’s review of Weikart’s new book “From Darwin to Hitler, Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany” (Palgrave MacMillan). In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin stated, “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and Read More ›
Pennsylvania School District Considers Supplemental Textbook Supportive of Intelligent Design
One Long Bluff
This article was originally posted on September 29, 2004. The September 9, 2004 issue of Nature reported the publication of an article advocating the theory of intelligent design in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The article, written by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen C. Meyer and titled “The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories,” was published in the Read More ›