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 ›
Introduction to: “Blind Evolution or Intelligent Design?: A Debate on Evolution”
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 ›
The New Fundamentalism
Intelligent Design’s Public Defender
The ghost of William Jennings Bryan, the most celebrated–and demonized–critic of evolution of the past century, inhabits a small California bungalow in a one-block cul-de-sac in North Berkeley. There, 61-year-old Phillip Johnson is working full time to convince the world that an intelligent force–not evolution–is responsible for all forms of life on Earth. Unlike Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate who Read More ›
Congressional Testimony on Telecommuting and the Family and Medical Leave Act
Telecommuting and the FMLAPrepared Statement of John S. Niles, Senior FellowDiscovery Institute, SeattleFor the Congressional Roundtable on the Tenth Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave ActFebruary 5, 2003 Good morning, my name is John Niles and I am a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Discovery Institute furthers research on national Read More ›
Biologist Ken Miller Flunks Political Science on Santorum
The expertise of Brown University biologist Ken Miller apparently knows no bounds. Perhaps tired of being just a biologist, Miller in recent weeks has taken to moonlighting as a legal scholar and political scientist. The focus of Miller’s newfound expert knowledge is what has come to be called the “Santorum Amendment” adopted by Congress last year, which encourages coverage of Read More ›