Remove from the natural sciences the mystery of beauty, of purpose, and of meaning, and you are left with evolutionism. It is neither a hypothesis nor a fact; it is rather a method, a discipline. Existence, proclaimed Richard Dawkins, “is no longer a mystery,” the riddle having been solved by Darwin and Wallace. And yet the riddle remains. This last Read More ›
This article, published by PennLive, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The rest Read More ›
This Powerpoint presentation was made available by Cascadia Center Fellow John Niles and represents the type of policy issue the Cascadia Center supports in its transportation efforts. Tolling will, again, be a major subject at our third Technology and Transportation conference at Microsoft in 2006. This presentation was made by Dr. Adrian Moore, Vice President at the Reason Foundation located Read More ›
This article, published by The Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute and Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which funds research into intelligent design and of which Behe is a founding fellow, filed a friend of the court brief late Monday urging the judge to consider the teaching of intelligent design constitutional, Read More ›
This article, published by The New York Times, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
This article, published by The Washington Post, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Michael Behe: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell. The Read More ›
SEATTLE – A parent in California is suing the National Science Foundation for using more than a half-million federal dollars to develop a website that encourages science teachers to use religion to promote evolution. In announcing the suit Larry Caldwell, President of Quality Science Education for All, who is co-counsel in the suit with the Pacific Justice Institute, said, “the Read More ›
Harrisburg, PA — Today, the Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think tank researching intelligent design, filed an Amicus Curiae (i.e. “Friend of the Court”) brief in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case urging the judge to rule that it is not unconstitutional to teach about the scientific theory of intelligent design. The filing of the brief coincides with Read More ›
Click here to read a review (PDF) of Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross’ book, “Creationism’s Trojan Horse” by Jonathan Witt, from a forthcoming issue of the philosophy journal Philosophia Christi.
The fury of radical animal liberationists is growing, leading them to acts of brazen lawlessness and flagrant vigilantism. In the United Kingdom, a farm family that raised guinea pigs for medical testing was subjected to years of personal threats and property vandalism by animal liberationists. The family had courageously refused to be intimidated, but when the liberationists robbed the grave Read More ›