We should not speak ill of the dead, we are told. Whenever any of us shuffle off this mortal coil, as Shakespeare so evocatively put it, we should strive to remember the deceased as they might wish and pray that they find the same forgiveness and peace that we ourselves desire. So, too, with Jack Kevorkian, who died June 3 Read More ›
Jack Kevorkian’s natural death last week at age 83 reminded me of how profoundly society has changed since 1990 when he provoked outrage after openly admitting assisting the suicide of Janet Adkins. Over the next eight years, Kevorkian engaged in an accelerating crescendo of death, assisting about 130 suicides, and lethally injecting at least one person—ALS patient, Thomas Youk in Read More ›
The root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, according to a broad consensus of the international media and the considered cerebrations of the deepest-thinking movie stars, is Israeli settlers in what are described as the “occupied territories” on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Even such celebrated and fervent supporters of Israel as Alan Dershowitz and Bernard-Henri Lévy put the Read More ›
This article, published by HeraldNet, mentions Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center: The Cascadia Center and TMJ Group are studying the feasibility augmenting Amtrak service between Everett and Bellingham with two trips daily using self-propelled diesel multiple unit cars. The rest of the article can be found here.
The death of Jack Kevorkian by natural causes has a certain irony, but it is not surprising. His driving motive was always obsession with death. Indeed, as he described in his book Prescription Medicide, Kevorkian’s overriding purpose in his assisted-suicide campaign was pure quackery, e.g., to obtain a societal license to engage in what he called “obitiatry,” that is, the right to experiment on the brains and spinal Read More ›
This article, published by Bloomberg, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Some critics, notably Wesley J. Smith of the National Review and Weekly Standard magazines, said Kevorkian’s “obsession” with human vivisection — not compassion for the suffering — was the real motivation behind his later campaign for assisted suicide. The rest of the article can be found here.
Metamorphosis follows on the heels of past Illustra offerings, including Privileged Planet, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, and Darwin’s Dilemma. It’s probably true that with these films taken altogether, Illustra producer and documentarian Lad Allen has made the most easily accessible, visually stunning case for intelligent design available. If you have one shot at opening the mind of an uninformed Read More ›
This article, published by The Heartland Institute, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Ethicist Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, says IPAB could become the cornerstone of state rationing. “The passage of ObamaCare put the structure in place to create a bureaucratic state. Right now the board only has the Read More ›
Part I: Francis Collins’ Junk DNA Arguments Pushed Into Increasingly Small Gaps in Scientific Knowledge Recently I wrote an article explaining that both atheistic and theistic evolutionists have relied heavily on “junk DNA” — specifically pseudogenes — to argue against intelligent design (ID). In his 2006 book The Language of God, leading theistic evolutionist Francis Collins made such an argument, Read More ›