On this Martin Luther King Day weekend, I will be visiting Athens, Texas (a town south of Dallas) for a free public screening of my documentary Human Zoos, which explores the sordid legacy of scientific racism and eugenics in America. I’d like to think that the event will be a fitting activity … » Go
In September 1906, nearly a quarter of a million people flocked to the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Many came for a startling new exhibit in the Zoo’s Monkey House. But it wasn’t a monkey they came to see. It was a man. His name was Ota Benga. A pygmy from the African Congo, Ota Benga was … » Go
On Wednesday, March 22, you are invited to hear CSC Associate Director John G. West speak on an often overlooked but important chapter in Disney cinematic history: the political and moral themes expressed in Walt Disney’s live-action films and television shows. Although Hollywood today is known … » Go
Is technocracy about to supplant democracy in the US? Is America entering an era of “totalitarian science”? Join us as political scientist John G. West discusses the expanded paperback edition of his book Darwin Day in America, describing the growing misuse of science during the Obama years … » Go
In 2000, Discovery Institute biologist Jonathan Wells published his book Icons of Evolution, which documented widespread inaccuracies and junk science in the treatment of evolution in many biology textbooks. This pathbreaking book resulted in significant corrections to many textbooks, although many … » Go
If someone had predicted a year ago that Oxford University Press would publish a book with the subtitle Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, I might have wondered what alternate universe he was inhabiting. But Oxford did publish it, and the aftershocks … » Go
A few weeks before last year’s presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high-profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals. Graham declared, “I’ll do all I can to help you—and you can quote me on that.” Graham’s organization … » Go
More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. In this documentary, The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, leading scholars explore … » Go
“Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.” — C.S. Lewis. It’s been a blissfully sunny week in Seattle — the kind of week Seattleites pine for after their gray and soggy winters. The official start of spring isn’t until today, but the cherry blossoms have already … » Go
Today, February 12, is Charles Darwin’s birthday. For the past two decades, secularists and atheists have celebrated “Darwin Day” almost like a religious holiday. Tonight, for example, the American Humanist Association will hold an event where they promise you can “Discover how … » Go
Editor’s note: This commentary was originally published on January 18, 2019. On this Martin Luther King Day weekend, I will be visiting Athens, Texas (a town south of Dallas) for a free public screening of my documentary Human Zoos, which explores the sordid legacy of scientific racism and … » Go
You never know the impact you will have on someone’s life. I was reminded of that fact earlier this year at our inaugural Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, where nearly 1,000 people filled the auditorium opening night to hear a conversation about faith and science between Eric Metaxas … » Go
If you listen to the media, you’d think that science has refuted God, the debate over Darwin is closed, the solution to the origin of life is right around the corner, and humans are no more significant than cockroaches. If you are as sick of this kind of fake news as I am, I have good news. … » Go
The hit YouTube series Science Uprising features a host wearing a creepy mask fit for Halloween. The mask is undeniably a bit scary. But here’s something scarier: The dehumanizing worldview of materialism the mask represents. Falsely claiming support from science, materialism depicts … » Go
Renowned scientist James Tour at Rice University is facing the wrath of Internet trolls because of his candid evaluation of origin of life research in a recent public lecture in Dallas. For his frankness, Tour is being vilified by detractors as an attention-grabbing charlatan, an incompetent … » Go
In January, Professor James Tour of Rice University delivered a terrific lecture on “The Mystery of the Origin of Life” at a Dallas conference organized by Discovery Institute. The lecture hit a nerve, already attracting 74,000+ views on YouTube. It also provoked a firestorm, with various … » Go
One of the rewarding experiences that go with creating a film is doing live screenings and being able to interact in a personal way with viewers during Q&A. For my film Human Zoos (available now on YouTube), I have been fortunate to participate in over a dozen live screenings in the United … » Go
On a cold but sunny Sunday afternoon on Martin Luther King Day weekend, I found myself deep in the heart of Texas. I was visiting the town of Athens, 73 miles southeast of Dallas, for a screening of my documentary Human Zoos at First Baptist Church. The film has just been posted to YouTube … » Go
