Seattle – “Darwin’s attempt to explain the origins of all the magnificent species in the living world in terms of the struggle for survival is easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science,” writes Dr. Granville Sewell, in his new book In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design published by Discovery Institute Press. What do you get Read More ›
This article, published by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: The Gilder view is, “I always say don’t solve problems. When you solve problems you end up feeding your failures, starving your strengths and creating a costly mediocrity. Don’t solve problems. Pursue opportunities.” The rest of the article can be found here.
“The very people who deny human exceptionalism in the animal rights movement are asking us to engage in hyper-duties towards animals which would be an act of exceptionalism,” says Wesley J. Smith, author of A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith was interviewed by National Review’s John Read More ›
In his Tucson speech at the memorial service for the victims of the horrific shooting attack by a mentally deranged man, President Obama stated that while lack of civility in America’s political discourse did not motivate the shooter, public discourse would be improved were more civility shown by participants in the debate. Liberals instantly blamed the right’s “incivility” for the Read More ›
Signature in the Cell author Stephen Meyer debates Oxford University chemist and “new atheist” Peter Atkins on Premier Radio UK. The program is in conjunction with the release of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which is coming out on DVD in the UK just this month.
Ben Stein asks us to sign the academic freedom petition, not to silence anyone, but so everyone theory is heard. Read More ›
Sacramento — Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth has sent a letter to the California Science Center (CSC) requesting documents related to the Center’s cancellation of a screening last October of the pro-intelligent design documentary “Darwin’s Dilemma.” The screening was sponsored by the American Freedom Alliance (AFA), a private group that had rented the Center’s IMAX theater. Senator Hollingsworth’s letter follows Read More ›
Now we have scientists predicting a new age of cooling, pointing out that Arctic ice is growing, not shrinking, and it all has to do with ocean currents, not man-made activity. Human caused global warming increasingly is seen as an over-statement, at the least. Without open debate, who knows? Scientific hype is found in medicine, too, with repeated dire warnings about Read More ›
President Obama’s supporters are making much of how the Bush administration treated 2001 shoe-bomber Richard Reid the same way that the Flight 253 Christmas bomber has been treated: arrest, indictment, and trial in civilian criminal court. In doing so they in fact continue to perpetuate a deep division that dates back to the first days after September 11, 2001, between Read More ›