AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Freedom Network this week is launching an attack on science education in Texas, seeking to restrict the flow of information to students. TFN is asking for people to sign their petition supposedly to protect science textbooks from censorship, and claiming that there are efforts to insert creationism in textbooks, which is completely false. The truth Read More ›
Click here to open a PDF of the letter Two dozen professors from seven Texas universities have signed an open letter to the State Board of Education (see below) urging it to ensure that biology textbooks present both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological and chemical evolution. The open letter and list of signers, released Tuesday by Discovery Institute, Read More ›
When students study Darwin’s theory of evolution, should they learn only about its strengths, or should they also hear about its weaknesses? And should they learn about the best current evidence for evolution, or should they study outdated examples that have been discredited by the scientific community? Those are the real issues Discovery Institute has raised with the Texas State Read More ›
Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct — eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part of his life Read More ›
Original Article President Bush has announced an overhaul to NASA’s long-term goals and recommended that the United States once again send men (and perhaps women) to the moon. But the price tag for such ventures would be steep. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted in its Jan. 12 editorial (“It’s easy: Just stop spending”), with growing federal deficits the president’s goal Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin American Statesman Corrects Misleading Report about Discovery Institute Seattle, July 23, 2003 — The Austin American-Statesman has corrected a misleading report that falsely implied a connection between Discovery Institute and a group it says promotes “Christian theocracy.” In a statement published July 19 the newspaper corrected a report that first appeared in a July 8 front-page story Read More ›
Click here to access the review of Frank Beckwith’s “Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design” that originally appeared in the Harvard Law Review. As with all Book Notes that appear in the academic journals published by law schools, this Book Note was authored anonymously by a student editor.