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Discovery President Bruce Chapman to appear on TV war panel

Discovery Institute president Bruce Chapman will participate in a panel discussion on a special program to air on NorthWest Cable News several times this weekend. “Beyond Baghdad” airs on NWCN (Comcast channel 8) at 8 p.m. Friday the 4th, noon and 8 p.m. Saturday the 5th, and noon and 8 p.m. Sunday the 6th. For listings outside Seattle, click here. Read More ›

God and Design

Recent discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biochemistry have reinvigorated the argument for design. This accessible and serious volume collects leading scholars from many sides over the debate on intelligent design to assess the concept from philosophical, theological, and scientific standpoints. Discovery Fellow William Lane Craig applies William Dembski’s explanatory filter to the question of cosmic design. Craig first observes that Read More ›

Publishers correct some factual errors, but now textbooks contradict each other

Top corrections include removal of Haeckel’s embryos and gill slits clarification OCT. 30 SEATTLE – After months of claims by Darwinists that biology textbooks don’t contain any factual errors about evolution that need to be corrected, publishers have agreed to fix a number of errors identified by Darwin’s critics. Top corrections made by publishers include the removal of bogus nineteenth Read More ›

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God and Design

Recent discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biochemistry have captured the public imagination and made the Design Argument – the theory that God created the world according to a specific plan – the object of renewed scientific and philosophical interest. This accessible but serious introduction to the design problem brings together new perspectives from prominent scientists and philosophers including Paul Davies, Read More ›

Woman’s Feeding Tube Is Ordered Reinstated

Original article MIAMI, Oct. 21 — Gov. Jeb Bush ordered doctors to resume tube-feeding a severely brain-damaged woman Tuesday after an unprecedented vote of the Florida legislature gave him authority to override the wishes of her husband and the orders of the courts. The legislature intervened, at the urging of Bush (R), six days after doctors removed the feeding tubes Read More ›

Testimony by J. Budziszewski to Texas SBOE

Honorable members of the Texas State Board of Education, my name is J. Budziszewski. I am a full Professor in both the Department of Government and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. In my twenty-two years as a scholar of political philosophy, I have written six books and am a nationally recognized authority in my Read More ›

Bush and Blair Will Be Redeemed

Critics of George Bush’s Iraq policy have bemused themselves with anti-war demonstrations and public opinion overseas, plus the pronouncements of France, Germany and Russia. They conclude that America has suffered diplomatic rejection by “the whole world.” The war is about to recruit new waves of terrorists, they say, and at last precipitate the downfall of the American “empire.” But while Read More ›

Project Steve – Establishing the Obvious

If Project Steve was meant to show that a considerable majority of the scientific community accepts a naturalistic conception of evolution, then the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) could have saved its energies — that fact was never in question. The more interesting question was whether any serious scientists reject a naturalistic conception of evolution — that fact has Read More ›

Bully for Those Combating Worldwide Slave Trade

[Note: John Miller is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors at Discovery Institute. He left the Institute to take his position mentioned below.] From the In the Northwest column On a trip to Europe in more innocent times, four Seattle buddies walked wide-eyed through Amsterdam’s red light district. We made out the shapes of ladies of the Read More ›