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Incompetence or Sabotage?

An old Washington political rule goes like this: “You get blamed for things you didn’t do, so you might as well take credit for things you didn’t do.” The Bush administration has put this rule backward when it comes to economic policy. It is accepting blame for things it didn’t do and not taking adequate credit for good things it Read More ›

The Assault on Terri Schiavo Continues

WHAT LITTLE Terri Schiavo has left in this life, is being cruelly stripped away. Not only has a judge ordered her to die slowly by dehydration via having her tube-supplied food and water removed, but now, her (estranged) husband and legal guardian Michael Schiavo has completely isolated her from her family. Ever since mysterious “puncture wounds” were supposedly detected on Read More ›

Networks for Nothing, Fraud for Free:

In this issue of Bandwidth, Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter addresses past and present fraud at MCI-Worldcom, arguing against their Chapter 11 re-organization and citing examples of current allegations of bill and tax evasions at the corporation.

Uncommon Dissent — New anthology highlights intellectuals’ skepticism of Darwinian evolution

SEATTLE, AUGUST 19 — Even as some defenders of Darwinism claim there is no real debate over evolution, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow William Dembski has compiled multiple essays by scientists and other scholars in Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing that proves otherwise. “Darwinism, its proponents assure us, has been overwhelmingly vindicated,” says Dembski. “Any resistance to it is futile Read More ›

Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?

[Note: This article first appeared in The Human Life Review 30, 2 (Spring 2004): 29-37.] A number of years ago two intelligent students surprised me in a class discussion by defending the proposition that Hitler was neither good nor evil. Though I kept my composure, I was horrified. One of the worst mass murderers in history wasn’t evil? How could Read More ›

Praise For “From Darwin To Hitler”

“Richard Weikart’s outstanding book shows in sober and convincing detail how Darwinist thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society by the time of the First World War, in which the supposed good of the race was applied as the sole criterion of public policy and ‘racial hygiene’. Without over-simplifying the lines that connected this body of Read More ›

A Response to Some Objections by Kyler Kuehn to The Privileged Planet

In August 2003, Kyler Kuehn provided a critical response to our presentation on The Privileged Planet at the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation. At the time, Kuehn was at a disadvantage, since the book had not yet been published and his response was based on an incomplete manuscript of our book. In our opinion, the objections resulted almost Read More ›

Troop Realignment Vital to U.S. Security

Original Article This week President Bush announced a global realignment of U.S. military forces to take place over the next several years. The proposed realignment will decrease U.S. presence in Germany and South Korea, bring some units home and shift others to bases in newly allied countries such as Poland, Romania and Uzbekistan. This global realignment is not only overdue, Read More ›

A review of Uncommon Dissent

A review of Uncommon Dissent…Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing edited by William A. Dembskiby Bruce S. Thornton Original Article If you believe what you hear in the mainstream media, the critics of Darwinian evolution are wild-eyed creationists who believe that Genesis literally describes the origins of life, and so are equivalent, as William Dembski says in his Introduction, to a Read More ›

Evolution’s ‘Dictatorship’ — Student Struggles to Get Opposite Viewpoint Heard

Original Article Samuel Chen was a high school sophomore who believed in freedom of speech and the unfettered pursuit of knowledge. He thought his public high school did, too, but when it came to the subject of evolution — well, now he’s not so sure. In October 2002, Chen began working to get Dr. Michael Behe, professor of biological sciences Read More ›