SEATTLE, FEB. 11, 2004 — The tentative decision of the Ohio State Board of Education this week to approve a model lesson plan on the critical analysis of evolution was applauded today by the Discovery Institute, whose Center for Science and Culture examines scientific challenges to Darwinian evolution. At the same time the Institute said efforts by Darwin-only lobbyists to misrepresent Read More ›
Grand Cayman — Some of you reading this maybe thinking, “Ah Cayman, isn’t that the place with all the illegal financial activity?” It is true Cayman is the world’s largest offshore financial center, and the world’s fifth-biggest financial center, even though it is in the middle of the Caribbean on a small, pleasant island with only 40,000 people. But contrary Read More ›
The anti-human values that permeate the animal-rights/liberation movement are, once again, vividly on public display. Cambridge University, under pressure from animal liberationists, recently announced it has dropped a proposed multimillion-pound research project that would have, in part, conducted experiments on monkeys in the urgent search for the causes of and cures for devastating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Read More ›
Are we better off having lower taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains (and other taxes on capital) or having a lower deficit? Obscure as it may seem, this is the central economic debate being fought in the political arena. To fund any given level of government spending, our political leaders have to choose how much of the spending should Read More ›
A new website devoted to the book Darwinism, Design, and Public Education is now online at http://www.darwinismanddesign.com. Visitors to the site can download sample chapters, read about the contributors to the book and order copies online. Chapter seven of the book, The Cambrian Explosion Biology’s Big Bang is available for download as a PDF, as is the introduction which briefly Read More ›
REPUBLICANS who dream of attacking John Edwards for making his fortune as a trial lawyer should know that his most famous lawsuit — the one he talks about most on the campaign trail — involved a little girl condemned to a lifetime of feeding tubes when she became caught in a powerful drain in a wading pool. Sitting in only Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MILWAUKEE, APRIL 20 — Governor Scott McCallum has been named a Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute announced today. McCallum was the Governor of Wisconsin from 2001-2003 and is President and CEO of The McCallum Group. As Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute Mr. McCallum will work on issues of state and regional development. McCallum is a strong proponent of Read More ›
Did you know that between fiscal years 2001 and 2004 federal spending will rise by about 24 percent, and nondefense, discretionary outlays will increase about 31 percent? In 2000, federal government outlays were 18.4 percent of GDP, but in 2004 they will be approximately 20.5 percent of GDP. By any measure, both defense and nondefense federal government spending is rising Read More ›
Is our universe a blind concatenation of atoms, evolution a random walk across a meaningless landscape, and our sense of purpose a pathetic shield against a supremely indifferent world? Or does the universe and our place within it click into place, repeatedly? These starkly different views open up immense metaphysical and theological questions, and at least part of the answer Read More ›
SEATTLE — “Unlocking the Mystery of Life,” a 58-minute program exploring what DNA reveals about the origin of life, is now airing on PBS stations across the country. “Unlocking the Mystery of Life” documents how scientists are abandoning naturalistic explanations for the origin of genetic information and looking to theories of design for answers. “In almost every scientific discipline we Read More ›