This article, published by the Huffington Post, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay W. Richards’ book Money, Greed, and God. But there’s another book making the rounds among Tea Partiers, especially of the religious bent, this year that also deserves attention. Jay W. Richards’ Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem presents an evangelical Read More ›
This article, published by The Register-Guard, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: The future is not quite so dire, said Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Center, a Seattle-based transportation policy group. Amtrak carries passengers through 46 states who board and alight at stations in 500 cities across the country. Lawmakers representing all those areas have proved historical allies for Read More ›
SEATTLE — Forty years ago scientists discovered that more than 95% of our DNA does not encode proteins. Since then the non-protein-coding portion was labeled “junk” and attributed to molecular accidents that have accumulated in the course of evolution. Now, biologist Dr. Jonathan Wells exposes The Myth of Junk DNA (Discovery Institute Press 2011) and shows that contrary to being Read More ›
Monday's election was a political transformation that saw the sudden collapse of the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois, and the surprising rise of the NDP. The real winner, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has turned squareness into charisma.
Read More ›A number of leading proponents of Darwinian evolution claim that “junk DNA”—the non-protein-coding DNA that makes up more than 95% of our genome—provides decisive evidence for Darwin’s theory and against intelligent design, since an intelligent designer would not have littered our genome with so much garbage. In The Myth of Junk DNA, biologist and senior Discovery Institute fellow Jonathan Wells Read More ›
I note that Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth’s ruling stopping all federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research as against federal law (the Dickey-Wicker Amendment) has been reversed in a 2–1 appeals-court verdict. Given the extreme political correctness of federal funding — and the courts’ general tendency to follow the views of the liberal establishment in these matters — it is both surprising and Read More ›
This article, published by the Arizona Capitol Times, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: As Wesley J. Smith wrote in an article entitled, “Our New ObamaCare Masters,” “When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they did not envisage governance by ‘we the experts.’” The rest of the article can be found here.
If you haven’t already heard that the wireless market would be left with a struggling competitor if AT&T acquires T-Mobile USA, you soon will. As the FCC and members of Congress begin debate about what this merger would mean to the wireless industry, and specifically for Sprint Nextel Corp., it’s important to remember that the competitor’s long-standing struggles have nothing to do with Read More ›
This article, published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, references a study done by Discovery Institute: By stimulating investment in the telecom industry, the legislation would help create 50,000 jobs in Wisconsin, according to a study from the Discovery Institute, commissioned by the Wisconsin Technology Council. The rest of the article can be found here.
Part One In three chapters of God and Evolution, I respond to the criticisms of ID from certain, but by no means all, Thomists such as Ed Feser. Feser (whose work I generally hold in high regard) recently wrote a lengthy response to my arguments. Since Feser reiterates many of his previous arguments in this response, I’ve decided to post several excerpts Read More ›