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1. Preamble

I have many critics. Some are measured and calm. Others are obsessive. Richard Wein is perhaps the most obsessive. His critique of my book No Free Lunch (hereafter NFL) weighs in at 37,000 words and purports to provide the most thorough refutation of my work to date. It certainly is long. But is it thorough and does it succeed in actually refuting my ideas? In fact, the critique fails as a refutation and skirts key issues at every opportunity. It is therefore neither thorough nor a refutation.

From the In the Northwest roundup column, on Discovery board chairman John Miller The crusader: As a Seattle congressman from 1984 to 1992, Republican John Miller spoke out against both his city’s and his administration’s foreign policy. He denounced human rights abuses by the Sandinista rulers of Nicaragua at a time when Seattle political and religious figures were acting as Read More ›

A Zogby International poll conducted this week shows strong agreement (65 percent) among Ohioans for an educational policy that “Biology teachers should teach Darwin’s theory of evolution, but also the scientific evidence against it.” Nineteen percent believe that “Biology teachers should teach only Darwin’s theory of evolution and the scientific evidence that supports it.” Sixteen percent back “Neither/Not Sure.” The Read More ›

Original article Columbus – The State Board of Education yesterday unanimously adopted a set of science standards that makes Ohio the first state to require students to examine criticisms of biological evolution. But board members also agreed to a last-minute disclaimer stating that their action should not be construed as support for the controversial concept of intelligent design, the idea Read More ›

“As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has just the quality of the madman’s arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy In the struggle to survive, the fit win, and so it is also the fit who Read More ›

In its lead editorial today, The Wall Street Journal recommended Discovery Senior Fellow Richard Rahn for a high-level post in the Treasury Department to effectively push for persistent tax reduction and simplification. This story primarily examines the record of newly appointed Treasury Secretary John Snow.