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 And should they learn about the best current evidence for evolution, or should they study outdated examples that have been discredited by the scientific community?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.
Should Americans write the new Iraqi constitution? Should Americans determine how Iraq is governed in the future? We Americans have a legitimate interest in making sure the new Iraqi constitution will protect the liberties of the people, and result in their future prosperity and a successful state. To those ends, we should insist on certain constitutional standards and safeguards before Read More ›
Our Discovery Institute colleague, William L. Pierce, Phd., age 67, died early January 13 in Maryland after a protracted struggle with cancer. Many will remember Bill as the founder in 1980 of the National Council for Adoption (NCFA), an organization he headed for 20 years. I met him first in in 1983, when I was at the White House, and Read More ›
SEATTLE, JAN. 14 – “Let’s not abort the mission to the moon before we’re clear about it’s goals and values,” said astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, a member of NASA Astrobiology Institute, today in response to critics of President Bush’s announced intentions to push for a return to the moon. “So far all of the debate has been based on political and economic Read More ›