Young Americans are getting involved in their communities in new ways. They join Giving Circles, participate in crowd funding campaigns, and use social media for good. They are also getting involved in philanthropy and service through their workplaces. A new study shows that millennials value employers that encourage volunteerism and giving. With funding from the Case Foundation, the research group Achieve surveyed 1,514 employees of more than 300 Read More ›
In December 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath entered Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, for serious throat surgery to relieve her sleep apnea. She survived the surgery without incident, even enjoying a Popsicle after awakening from anesthesia. Then came a terrible complication: Jahi began bleeding profusely and suffered a cardiac arrest. It took many minutes to restore her heartbeat. Too late: Jahi Read More ›
Has the mystery of our origins been solved? How is the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) program related to intelligent design? In an interview with Rob McConnell, Dr. Stephen Meyer answers these questions and discusses Darwin’s doubts on the nationally syndicated show “The X Zone.” For more information on Meyer’s research, and to order your own copy of Darwin’s Doubt, Read More ›
Just when you expect President Obama to moderate his domestic economic policies that have stifled job growth and fostered an anemic recovery following the passage of his two signature pieces of legislation — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Affordable Care Act — it gets worse. Now, after bringing banking and healthcare — about 31 Read More ›
Yes. Although open hostility from those who hold to neo-Darwinism sometimes makes it difficult for design scholars to gain a fair hearing for their ideas, research and articles supporting intelligent design are being published in peer-reviewed publications.
If the publication in 2013 of Stephen Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, tells us anything, it’s that the evolution debate in fact continues. More than that, like a storm, it is gathering strength and advancing steadily. Darwin’s Doubt was a major step forward. Now the controversy has advanced still Read More ›
If the U.S. government was a parliamentary system, Barack Obama’s Democratic Party rule would have collapsed by now with a vote of no-confidence. In our Constitutional system of fixed terms and elections, there may be no clearer sign of an impending political realignment then when a respectable congressional majority leader goes down in a primary defeat to an underfunded, almost Read More ›
A number of factors must be perfectly met for the possibility of complex life on earth. These include: proper distance from the sun, liquid water, that it be a terrestrial planet, having tectonic plates, protected by large planets, orbiting the correct type of star, has a large moon, a magnetic field, and is oxygen rich. Listen is as we see Read More ›
If the publication in 2013 of Stephen Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, tells us anything, it’s that the evolution debate in fact continues. More than that, like a storm, it is gathering strength and advancing steadily. Darwin’s Doubt was a major step forward. Now the controversy has advanced still Read More ›
If the publication in 2013 of Stephen Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, tells us anything, it’s that the evolution debate in fact continues. More than that, like a storm, it is gathering strength and advancing steadily. Darwin’s Doubt was a major step forward. Now the controversy has advanced still Read More ›