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This article, published by The New American, mentions and quotes Discovery Institute: In 2001, the Discovery Institute launched a list of hundreds of scientists who dissent from Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. According to the Institute, “During recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, “artificial intelligence” research, and others have caused scientists to begin Read More ›

A business is not a family or a charity or a government. It has a specific social function with a specific purpose, which implies specific duties. One of its responsibilities — its duties — is to make a profit. I know that Milton Friedman argued famously in 1970 that profit-maximizing was the only responsibility of executives, and that’s an overstatement. Still, think about Read More ›

It’s the question that will never go away: Are we alone in the universe? These days, when most people ask that question, they’re not asking whether God or angels exists, but whether there is life—intelligent life—on a planet other than Earth. Just a few decades ago, many scientists believed there was intelligentlife on Mars, since it seems so similar to Earth. Read More ›

Many more sick people need kidneys, hearts, and livers than there are kidneys, hearts, and livers to go around. This shortage is the result of both decreased supply and increased demand. For example, public safety laws requiring that motorists wear seat belts and motorcyclists helmets have reduced the kind of catastrophic head injuries that often lead to organ donation. At Read More ›

This article, published by The Wall Street Journal, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: As George Gilder documented in his riveting book “The Israel Test,” it was then that the country evolved into a “leader of technological progress and scientific advance.” The rest of the article can be found here.

Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists to obtain the benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. But that doesn’t mean the struggle over our biotechnological future is over. To the contrary, the current relative quiet Read More ›

This article, published by Catholic Culture, provides quotes from an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: In its April issue, Catholic World Report published a fascinating interview with Wesley J. Smith, a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found here.