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Will “Santorum Language” Save Us From Scientific Fundamentalism?

One combustible controversy is raging in Ohio school districts right now. It’s over science education and, soon enough, will flare up in all fifty states. To get to the heart of it, the controversy centers on how to teach evolution – not whether to teach it, mind you, but how. It all began with the passage of the “No Child Read More ›

Media Advisory on Evolution Controversies

Contact: Rob Crowther, 206-292-0401 x 107 rob@discovery.org As you report on controversies over evolution and intelligent design, here are some facts you might find useful: 1. There is a growing scientific controversy over Darwinian evolution. a) Today there are critics of Darwinian evolution within the scientific community, including biologists at mainstream American universities. In 2001, more than 100 scientists including Read More ›

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Advocates of Intelligent Design, Scientific Method Square Off

The debate about how life developed received a high-profile airing last night on one of the nation's most venerable stages. The arguments are sure to echo in Ohio, where state educators are struggling over how to teach the subject in biology classes. Two renowned evolutionists and two backers of a competing concept called intelligent design battled it out at the American Museum of Natural History in one of the most significant national debates on the subject since the fabled Scopes "monkey trial" 77 years ago. Read More ›

Blind Evolution or Intelligent Design?

Talk delivered at the American Museum of Natural History, 23 April 2002 at a discussion titled “Blind Evolution or Intelligent Design?” The participants included ID proponents William A. Dembski and Michael J. Behe as well as evolutionists Kenneth R. Miller and Robert T. Pennock. Eugenie C. Scott moderated the discussion. An introduction was given by National History Editor, Richard Milner. Read More ›
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Does Evolution Even Have A Mechanism?

Talk delivered at the American Museum of Natural History, 23 April 2002 at a discussion titled “Evolution or Intelligent Design?” The participants included ID proponents William A. Dembski and Michael J. Behe as well as evolutionists Kenneth R. Miller and Robert T. Pennock. Eugenie C. Scott moderated the discussion. An introduction was given by National History Editor, Richard Milner. For Read More ›

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Has Darwin Met His Match?

In the December 2002 issue of Commentary, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, David Berlinski, offered this thoughtful, respectful, mid-course evaluation of intelligent design. David has established some important intellectual milestones that have been passed, as well as setting goal lines yet to be met. For another mid-course evaluation see William Dembski’s Becoming a Disciplined Science Read More ›

The Vexing Eye

For more information about David Berlinski – his new books, video clips from interviews, and upcoming events – please visit his website at www.davidberlinski.org. The following is an excerpt from David Berlinski’s article “Has Darwin Met His Match? (Commentary, December 1, 2002). IN 1994, Dan E. Nilsson and Suzanne Pilger published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society entitled, Read More ›

Seattle Talent in Abundance?!

George Gilder talks about technologies in terms of abundances and scarcities. At the public policy conference held mid-April by Seattle’s Discovery Institute and themed “Re-igniting the Tech Economy,” the man who wrote the law that “Bandwidth grows three times faster than computing power,” took time out to theorize the entrepreneur’s role in technology’s evolutionary process. According to Gilder, a Discovery Read More ›