Misperceiving patterns and lessons from random information is a form of psychiatric disease called "apophenia," a delusional condition the sufferer confuses with reality.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is run by staff that is friendly to scientific materialists and hostile to many orthodox believers who are scientists.
Ernst Haeckel was one of the most widely read evolutionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the man who did more than anyone to popularize Darwin's theory in Germany.
Using Ayala as an implicit Catholic spokesman on evolution, when there is no evidence he is a believing Catholic anymore, looks like a cheap journalistic trick.
Discovery co-founder George Gilder was on Lou Dobbs to say that real dependency in the United States is far greater than the 47 percent or so who do not pay income tax.
Scott S. Powell, a senior fellow of Discovery Institute, has an article in today's Investors Business Daily urging Mitt Romney to be more assertive about the value of his Bain experience.
Yale Alumni Magazine has done the world a favor by exposing one of the skeletons in the closet of that and other universities: the eugenics movement. The author, Richard Conniff, though himself a Darwinist, doesn’t pull punches. A century ago, he explains, well-meaning professors who contributed in positive ways to economics and conservation nonetheless also provided an intellectual weapon for evil that rocked the 20th century. A young activist in Germany was impressed. The movement started by Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, was carried to an extreme by this man and his friends in the decades to follow. In Germany, an imprisoned political extremist viewed these developments with satisfaction. Writing Mein Kampf in his cell, Adolf Hitler complained that naturalization in …
