Intelligent Design

UT mathematician Granville Sewell has produced a book of essays spanning a wide variety of issues related to the debate over evolution. Besides biological evolution, it also deals with the Big Bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, quantum mechanics, and even design in mathematics.

For more about In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design go here.

“What Hath Darwin Wrought?” is a TV special that investigates the shocking history of “social Darwinism” in America and Europe, including the eugenics crusade against the “unfit,” the euthanasia movement, Nazi genocide, and current efforts to devalue the lives of the handicapped. Hosted by Todd Friel, the program features Discovery Institute Senior Fellows David Berlinski, author of The Devil’s Delusion and The Deniable Darwin; John West, author of Darwin Read More ›

Wesley J. Smith, a prolific bioethicist, lectures on his new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy. He argues for human exceptionalism and, being special creatures, human’s responsibility in the world. A book party and part of The McNaughton Fellows Lecture Series, March 18, 2010. Related

Signature in the Cell, Tampa

Discovery Institute senior fellow and national radio personality Michael Medved leads a two-hour discussion about the evidence for intelligent design and the challenges it proposes to modern evolutionary theory.

Signature in the Cell author Stephen Meyer debates Oxford University chemist and “new atheist” Peter Atkins on Premier Radio UK. The program is in conjunction with the release of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which is coming out on DVD in the UK just this month.

Ben Stein asks us to sign the academic freedom petition, not to silence anyone, but so everyone theory is heard. Read More ›

To mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, advocates for intelligent design and Darwinian evolution squared off to debate the origins of life, the challenges to Darwin’s theory of evolution and the alternative theory of intelligent design. The American Freedom Alliance sponsored this debate as a part of their series of events celebrating the 150th anniversary Read More ›

Dr. Stephen Meyer appeared on the Dennis Miller show on December 2, 2009 to discuss his book Signature in the Cell.

Sr. Fellow of the Discovery Institute, John West, lectures on the social impact that Darwin had on the world. He allowed for biodiversity based on the non-exceptionalism of human life, he mitigated the true existence of morality, and he allowed for atheism to become scientifically plausible. Read More ›