The New York Times used to be a serious newspaper. But its latest article on the science textbook adoption process reads more like a press release than an impartial news article.
The critics of intelligent design don't want people to read Darwin's Doubt. Here's a new video you can use to counter their campaign to suppress interest in the book.
On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. John West discusses the Scopes “Monkey” Trial and how its legacy lives on in our culture today, almost ninety years later. The famous — and often misunderstood — 1925 trial of John T. Scopes, who was prosecuted for teaching human evolution, is commonly brought up in current debates as a way to defame scientific arguments against Darwinism. But today, as we’ve seen in recent threats to academic freedom, it’s Darwin’s defenders who seek legal means to silence doubters in the classroom. Listen …
On this episode of ID the Future, hear a brief message from CSC Associate Director John West on academic freedom as he asks the question: If Thomas Jefferson was alive today, would he be allowed to speak at an American …
In 2004, the academic freedom of another Ball State University professor was challenged by an outside interest group. But university officials treated that professor in a dramatically different way from how they are treating Professor Eric Hedin. Why?
Thanks to subscribers to our Academic Freedom Update newsletter, the Post corrected its outrageous falsehood that academic freedom bills try to mandate "creationism" in the classroom.
Ms. Strauss is a prime example of an agenda-driven reporter who isn't very scrupulous about the facts when reporting on controversies over evolution in education.
On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a high-profile Darwinist's comments about humans being "a plague" raises the specter of Social Darwinism, past and present.
The judge in the David Coppedge discrimination case against NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has issued a tentative ruling against Coppedge, but the evidence of discrimination still stands.
Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside its proper bounds. In this wide-ranging book of essays edited by John G. West, contemporary writers probe Lewis’s warnings about the dehumanizing impact of scientism on ethics, politics, faith, reason, and science itself. Issues explored include Lewis’s views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called “scientocracy.” Contributors include Michael Aeschliman, author of C.S. Lewis and the Restitution of Man; Victor Reppert, author of C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea; Jay Richards, …
In September, Oxford University Press officially releases the hardcover version of a new book by renowned philosopher Thomas Nagel at New York University. It's a bombshell.
Striking a blow for academic freedom, the Oklahoma House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would protect the rights of teachers and students to learn about scientific controversies over biological evolution, climate change, cloning, and other issues.
The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life.