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Welcome to America
Fifteen authors offer this “Conservative Statement of Principles on Immigration”: In his farewell address to the nation, President Reagan said: “I’ve spoken of the Shining City all my political life . . . [I]n my mind it was . . . teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with Read More ›
Money and the Middle Kingdom
Last week George Gilder and I attended the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Shanghai. As we peered out from our windows in the tallest hotel in the world, we saw a once-great cosmopolis rapidly regaining its status as a giant in world commerce and innovation. We had heard that 90 percent of the worlds tall cranes were at work in Read More ›
Saving Iraq… from the U.N.
Last Saturday, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin “proposed a radically new approach” that would take control of Iraq from the U.S. (surprise) and give it to the U.N. He demanded that an Iraqi provisional government be established within a month, a constitution written by the end of the year, and elections held by the spring of 2004. Iraq does Read More ›
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We Are Not Alone
Since early this century, scientists working in origin-of-life research have repeatedly tried to demonstrate that life’s simplest organisms could have evolved from simpler, nonliving molecules. This theory, known as chemical evolution, has dominated thinking about the origin of life for most of this century. So when Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger Olsen decided to critique chemical evolution, they didn’t expect their scientific audience to be ready to listen. Their audience has surprised them. Read More ›
Doubts Over Evolution Continue to Mount as 60 Biologists Express Skepticism with Central Tenet of Darwin’s Theory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERob CrowtherDiscovery Institute(206) 292-0401 x.107rob@discovery.org AUSTIN, SEPT. 10 — Evolution continues to be a theory in crisis as 60 biologists from across the country step forward and sign onto a growing list of scientists of all disciplines voicing their skepticism over one of the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution and urging “careful examination of the evidence for Read More ›
Statement regarding the Texas State Board of Education hearings on biology textbooks by Dr. Jonathan Wells
Hello, my name is Jonathan Wells. I have a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of California at Berkeley, where I also did post-doctoral research. I have published articles in several peer-reviewed scientific journals, I have taught embryology at a campus of the California State University, and I am a member of several scientific societies. Currently, I Read More ›

Laws, Causes and Facts
A response to “Darwinism: Philosophical Preference, Scientific Inference, and Good Research Strategy” by Michael Ruse, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy, Chapter 2, Proceeding of symposium entitled Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference (March 26-28, 1992). I appreciate very much the opportunity to respond to Professor Ruse. Though it is in the nature of a response to disagree, I must say that Read More ›