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This article, published by The Christian Post, mentions Phillip E. Johnson and quotes Casey Luskin, both of the Discovery Institute: “Phillip E. Johnson’s work brought the intelligent design movement together,” said Casey Luskin, a research coordinator for the Discovery Institute, an intelligent design advocacy group. “It is a criticism of Darwin’s theory of evolution on scientific grounds. It has really Read More ›

This article, published by The Bellingham Herald, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “Just as pre-clearance at the airports has worked so effectively, we think this will be a big boon both for passengers and customer service, as well as individual officers,” said Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Center for Regional Development, which has encouraged improved cross-border rail service. Read More ›

This article, published by The Daily Caller, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: American bioethicist Wesley Smith disagrees. “This whole assisted suicide euthanasia issue is a symptom, not a cause,” Smith told TheDC. “I think it’s a symptom of a society that has decided that it can’t establish moral standards.” The rest of the article can be found here.

Is Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain a serial sexual harasser or the victim of frivolous or fallacious allegations? We don’t really know because the purported victims of his inappropriate behavior and Cain’s former employer, the National Restaurant Association, signed confidential settlement agreements that contractually require everyone to keep their mouths shut about what happened. The political brouhaha caused by the Read More ›

Unprincipled. That’s what it is. No, not the federal government’s too-long-delayed police crackdown on California’s recreational marijuana industry. That’s right, “recreational,” not “medical”: When Golden State sellers of marijuana bring in $1.5 billion each year, they are clearly doing much more than merely “providing sick people their medicine.” But the real culprits here are not the people who are breaking both federal and California Read More ›

Remember the constant outcry against President George W. Bush’s embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) federal funding restrictions? Even though his administration issued more than $600 million in NIH grants for human ESCR, and much more than that for animal studies, Bush was castigated widely for preventing selfless scientists from creating a robust regenerative medical sector that, the critics claimed, possessed Read More ›

  November 8, 2011 Introducing The Human Exceptionalist A Monthly Newsletter of Discovery InstituteLast week—according to the experts—the 7 billionth human was born on Planet Earth.  To those who view human life as a scourge on the planet (and there are many), this simply represents another mouth to feed on a sphere of finite and diminishing resources.  Others, like Discovery Institute Read More ›