The Center for Science and Culture
This article, published by The Pasadena Star-New, mentions Discovery Institute: The former JPL employee is currently getting some public relations help from the Discovery Institute, a conservative lobbying organization with right-wing Christian ties best known for their promotion of intelligent design. The rest of the article can be found here.
Every so often there’ll be a media story revealing some gross abuse of public resources by government personnel: say, management at a given federal agency who are using a startling percentage of their government work time to look at Internet pornography on government computers — that sort of thing. Everyone gets outraged for a day then we forget all about Read More ›
This article, published by The Christian Post, quotes Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute: The Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think tank following the case, said the firing of David Coppedge only adds fuel to his lawsuit against Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Coppedge doesn’t seem at all like the first person who would normally be forced to leave in such a situation, Read More ›
How the Co-Founder of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Advocated Intelligent Design. Read More ›
Unlike Darwin, Wallace believed that biology provides powerful evidence of intelligent design. As a result, Wallace largely has been written out of the history of science by contemporary supporters of undirected evolution. Read More ›
In Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells compared icons of evolution –such as homology in vertebrate limbs– with published scientific evidence, and revealed that much of what we teach about evolution is wrong. Published in 2000, the book raised troubling questions about the status of Darwinian evolution that are still plaguing scientists today.
President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to accept global warming, “animal rights,” euthanasia and Darwinian evolution. The assumption is that doubting scientists’ claims means you have divorced Read More ›
Phillip E. Johnson replies in Reason in the Balance to Nancey Murphy’s review of Darwin on Trial. “In her review of Darwin on Trial, Murphy faults me for failing to evaluate Darwinism on Lakatosian criteria. She concedes that it is difficult to determine whether a program is progressive or degenerative. (If Catholic modernism is an example of a progressive program, Read More ›
