Foundation for Thought and Ethics

Started in 2016, Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE) Books is an imprint of Discovery Institute Press. The imprint carries forward the work of the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (1981-2016) in producing thoughtful — and thought-provoking — books designed to “expand the freedom to learn to young people, especially in the life-directing matters of worldview, moral reasoning, virtue, and conscience, and to return the right of informed consent to families in the education of their children.” FTE Books is directed by Jon Buell, who founded the Foundation for Thought and Ethics in 1981.

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Teaching the Controversy

Darwinism, Design and the Public School Science Curriculum
Foundation for Thought and Ethics, David K. DeWolf and Stephen C. Meyer
June 7, 1989
Public schools face a dilemma when they address the subject of biological origins. From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (1925) to the Supreme Court's opinion in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), the teaching of biological origins has put the public schools in the awkward role of resolving a controversy that divides scientists, educators, and the courts. While the experts debate the issues, and the media sometimes inflame the controversy, school boards, administrators, and teachers must still answer the question, What should we teach our students about how living organisms arose on earth?