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 For letters & responses to this Read More ›
Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (Revised) By Wesley J. SmithSpence Publishing, 2003 Discovery Institute is proud to announce that Spence Publishing has released a revised and updated version of a popular book by Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith. Smith, a lawyer and author who regularly writes about assisted suicide and other bioethical issues, describes Read More ›
A preliminary analysis of the treatment of evolution in biology textbooks currently being considered for adoption by the Texas State Board of Education.
Read More ›Archived at: http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=16307 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–When the Discovery Institute’s Raymond Bohlin testified before the Texas State Board of Education regarding the subject of evolution in textbook selection July 9, he simply wanted to emphasize the importance of including evolution’s weaknesses in textbooks. But CNN reported that his testimony and others were further examples of Christian conservatives pushing their pro-creation agenda. Read More ›
1. Introduction In the preceding essay, mathematician and probability theorist William Dembski notes that human beings often detect the prior activity of rational agents in the effects they leave behind.1 Archaeologists assume, for example, that rational agents produced the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone; insurance fraud investigators detect certain “cheating patterns” that suggest intentional manipulation of circumstances rather than “natural” …
There is an old folk wisdom: “You are known by the company you keep.” As is true of most folk wisdom, the saying has much to recommend it. To use an extreme example, if you hung out with and financially supported a known terrorist, most people would reasonably think that you were a terrorist too. Which brings to mind the Read More ›
With the monorail initiative’s passage, there are now seven separate transportation agencies in the Puget Sound region. Some think that’s just nutty. Two organizations, the pro-business Discovery Institute and the more pro-transit Transportation Choices Coalition, have called for the creation of just one superagency that would create a unified strategy for fixing the gridlock. The Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project, which Read More ›