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Stephen Meyer Gives the Positive Case for Intelligent Design

_{Anika Smith
August 1, 2011}

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Stephen Meyer on Michael Behe’s Irreducible Complexity and the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Anika Smith
July 29, 2011}

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William Dembski vs. Princeton Biologist Lee Silver

_{Anika Smith
July 28, 2011}

Princeton biologist Lee Silver, whose ideas on eugenics were promoted by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik, debated intelligent design with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and mathematician William Dembski at Princeton in 2005: Display "Intelligent Design: Is It Science? (Lee Silver vs William Dembski)" from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab). Please enable JavaScript in your browser to load this content. Always display content from YouTube Open "Intelligent Design: Is It Science? (Lee Silver vs William Dembski)" directly var _oembed_489b1e97c79d653cd3852cb2915112ce = …

Reuters Gets It Wrong: Intelligent Design Isn’t Creationism

_{Anika Smith
July 26, 2011}

Misreporting an issue by misdefining your terms misses the picture -- and undermines your credibility as an objective outlet doing serious journalism.

Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design and Peer Review

_{Anika Smith
July 25, 2011}

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Stephen Meyer on Academic Freedom and the Sternberg Case

_{Anika Smith
July 10, 2011}

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Stephen Meyer on the Heuristic Benefits of Intelligent Design

_{Anika Smith
July 9, 2011}

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Michael Denton on the Collapse of the Darwinian Paradigm and the Coming Revolution

_{Anika Smith
July 3, 2011}

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Stephen Meyer Gives a Primer on Debate Over Intelligent Design and Evolution

_{Anika Smith
July 1, 2011}

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Discrimination and the Parallels Between Frank Turek and David Coppedge

_{Anika Smith
June 20, 2011}

Thought crimes have filtered down from academia into the workplace. Regardless of what you think of Dr. Turek's views, that he should be fired merely for having them is alarming.

The Education of a Science Writer, or The Dangers of Trusting a Single Source

_{Anika Smith
May 26, 2011}

CSC Fellow Cornelius Hunter has another great piece explaining the problems science writer John Farrell has when reviewing Jonathan Wells' The Myth of Junk DNA.

Science Writers, Metaphysics, and the End of the Dissemination Chain

_{Anika Smith
May 25, 2011}

CSC Fellow Cornelius Hunter gives us the big picture view of the recent dustup with John Farrell at Forbes as "an interesting example of how evolutionary thinking is handed down and disseminated."

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez on the Habitability of Gliese 581d

_{Anika Smith
May 23, 2011}

Is exoplanet Gliese 581d habitable? We ask an expert, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.

Karl Giberson Has a Problem With Bill Dembski’s “View of Science”

_{Anika Smith
May 13, 2011}

. . . though you have to wade through a few pages on young-earth creationism, global warming, and the "humiliating" rejection of consensus science by the evangelical community (also noted in his subheading for being "intellectually impoverished).

Jonathan Wells Dispels The Myth of Junk DNA to Packed House in Seattle

_{Anika Smith
May 11, 2011}

Tuesday night biologist Jonathan Wells gave a talk on his brand-new book, The Myth of Junk DNA, at the EMP’s JBL Theater in Seattle. Around 150 people showed up on a rare fine spring evening to see Dr. Wells’ presentation, which included a screening of the book’s video trailer and time for Q&A. Photo source: Discovery Institute. The crowd was delighted to have Dr. Wells in front of them again after a few years between this book and his last, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. After being introduced by CSC Director Stephen Meyer, Dr. Wells touched on some of the problems facing the neo-Darwinian prediction of “junk” DNA, problems raised by scientific research showing function for areas in the genome that were …