CSC Summer Seminars 2017
Each summer the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute sponsors two intensive 9-day seminars. The seminars are primarily designed for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students, but each year we try to reserve a few spaces for a special cohort of professors, scientists, teachers, pastors, and other professionals. This year’s seminars will run from July 7-15. The CSC Seminar Read More ›
Zombie Science: Jonathan Wells on Overselling Darwin’s Tree of Life
All of life may be related as Darwin hypothesized, or it may not. Certainly, though, the science behind the evolutionary tree of life has been vastly oversold. Author of Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells explains in a new video conversation why that is so. For more on this see https://evolutionnews.org/2017/06/zom…
Do Killer Whales Destroy Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution? A Biologist Answers
Did whales evolve from land animals? SPECIAL OFFER: Get a free book chapter by biologist Jonathan Wells that critically examines the evidence for whale evolution. Get it here: https://www.discovery.org/whale In his book Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells devotes a chapter to the fatal challenge to Darwinian theory posed by the enigma of whales. Indeed, he notes Read More ›
Jonathan Wells, Author of Zombie Science: Fossil Finds Only Confuse Human Origins
In a video conversation, Discovery Institute biologist Jonathan Wells puts hype about fossil “ancestors” and “missing links” in perspective. His latest book, Zombie Science, documents a new set of evolutionary icons, of which human descent from apelike animals is one of the foremost examples. It’s also the most emotionally charged.
Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
According to a recent survey, more than 7 in 10 atheists and nearly 4 in 10 agnostics agree with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins that the universe looks as if it were produced by “blind, pitiless indifference.” Yet according to a growing number of scientists, discoveries in biology, physics, mathematics, and related fields provide convincing evidence that life was intelligently designed Read More ›
Jonathan Wells: Biologist, Author of Zombie Science, and…Ex-Con?
Biologist Jonathan Wells, author of Zombie Science and Icons of Evolution, opens up about his likes, dislikes, and college years, in this Up Close and Personal video. Jonathan Wells does scientific research and writes about science education and textbooks. Find more information about Jonathan Wells’ work at www.iconsofevolution.com. In Zombie Science Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of Read More ›
Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little attention has been paid to the precise representation of the information ubiquitous in nature. Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics fuses results from complexity modeling and information theory that allow both meaning and design difficulty in nature to be measured in bits. Built on the foundation of a series of Read More ›
Ten Questions to Ask About Your Biology Textbooks
In Zombie Science, Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of evolution were just innocent textbook errors, why do so many of them still persist? Science has enriched our lives and led to countless discoveries. But now, Wells argues, it’s being corrupted. Empirical science is devolving into zombie science, shuffling along unfazed by opposing evidence. Discredited icons of evolution rise Read More ›
Why Does the Cambrian Explosion Matter?
The geologically-sudden appearance of dozens of major complex animal types in the Cambrian layer of the fossil record — without any trace of the gradual transitional steps — poses a huge challenge for Darwinism. Frequently described as “the Cambrian Explosion,” the development of these new animal types required a massive increase in genetic information. We invite you to hear CSC Read More ›