One can hardly imagine a more contentious issue in the American culture wars than the debate over how biological origins should be taught in the public schools. On the one hand, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Science Education, and the American Civil Liberties Union have insisted that any departure from a strictly Darwinian approach to the …
Aftershocks of the human genome announcement rippled through San Francisco all weekend as the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science brought thousands of thinkers here to mull the surprising fact that humans have only a few more genes than mice. But to my mind, the most memorable moment in these last few weeks of genetic Read More ›
Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design Edited by William A. Dembski and James Kushiner, Brazos, $10.99 Paper(224p) ISBN 1-58743-004-5 (Religion/Science) Citing inspiration from Quintilian’s maxim, “Write not so that you can be understood but so that you cannot be misunderstood,” Dembski and Kushiner have assembled a collection of judicious and eloquent essays representing the often misunderstood intelligent design movement. Contributors Read More ›
As part of a growing trend worldwide and nationally, the event known as Darwin Days was celebrated across campus Feb. 12-14. Darwin Days is dedicated to the renowned scientists Charles Darwin, famous for his research and his theories on evolution, on his birthday Feb. 12th and the two following days. Several programs were held for students and faculty in which Read More ›
The past four centuries have not been especially kind to religious believers. Every time scientists have peered through a microscope or a telescope, their findings have usually challenged popular notions about God. Religious authorities have often fought back. But the latest discoveries about the human genome have produced no such backlash. At least, not yet. This week’s revelations, published in Read More ›
CBN.com–There are thousands of biology books targeted for everyone from toddlers to graduate students. In all their diversity, they have one thing in common. They support Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But do these biology textbooks support true science or science fiction? Most people think that high school and college biology textbooks reflect the latest and most accurate scientific information. Read More ›
On Valentine’s Day, 2001, the Kansas Board of Education voted to change the state’s science teaching standards to emphasize evolution and the Big Bang theory in the teaching of how life began on earth. The current board members have overturned a 1999 set of science standards that were passed by a more conservative board. The conservative board, in an effort Read More ›
Mr. Gilder, editor of the Gilder Technology Report and Senior Fellow of Discovery Insitute, is author of “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Change Our World.” Mr. Swanson is a technology analyst at the Gilder Technology Report. Dear Mr. Powell: Whether you know it or not, your leadership and decisions over the next four years will have more impact on the Read More ›
Design theorists argue that intelligent design constitutes a valid scientific research program aimed at understanding the effects of intelligence in the natural world. There is currently considerable debate whether this program is indeed valid, and in particular whether concepts like specified complexity or irreducible complexity, are coherently defined and can usefully be applied to actual systems in nature. In her Read More ›
People who are elderly, disabled, prematurely born, or seriously ill have much to fear from the medical intelligentsia — those bioethicists and moral philosophers who have in recent years transformed medical ethics. It was bioethicists and moral philosophers, after all, who made it acceptable to dehydrate to death people diagnosed as permanently unconscious — a practice that has already spread Read More ›