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What’s Israel Got to Do with It?

This article, published by National Review, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Bill Gates famously called George Gilder “very stimulating even when I disagree with him, and most of the time I agree with him.” The issues on which Gilder has staked out stimulating positions over more than 30 years as a writer and public intellectual are wide-ranging. The Read More ›

Darwin’s Dilemma Trailer

A documentary about the puzzling evidence from the Cambrian time period. During the time, an unfathomable amount of new life came into the world’s scene far too quickly for natural selection to be the chief cause. Watch the trailer and order the DVD to learn more.

The Constitutionality of Academic Freedom Legislation

In this excerpt from a longer law review article, attorney Casey Luskin examines the constitutionality of academic freedom legislation that would protect the rights of teachers and students to examine both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of modern evolutionary theory. Download the article now.

A Review of Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

Over at Evolution News, Joshua Youngkin has written a review of Richard Weikart’s new book Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress:

In his most recent book, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, Discovery Institute fellow Richard Weikart lays out a historian’s case for the proposition that Adolf Hitler’s murderous policies arose from a scientific racism inspired by Charles Darwin’s most famous ideas.

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Signature in the Cell

In Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, Director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, shows that the digital code embedded in DNA points to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address: how did life begin? Meyer tells the story of the successive attempts to explain the origin of life and develops a case for intelligent design (ID) based on new evidence using the same scientific method that Darwin himself pioneered. Read More ›
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Berlinski Uncensored

Dr. David Berlinski notes some very frank realities about the scientific world and the scientists who make it up today. Learn more about David Berlinski at davidberlinski.org and devilsdelusion.com.

The Promise Land

This article, published by City Journal, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder’s book The Israel Test: It was serendipitous that I was in Israel when I read The Israel Test, the latest book from George Gilder, the high-tech guru and author of the classic Wealth and Poverty. Almost every day during the six weeks that I spent Read More ›

Transportation Dollars Should Be Allocated To Maximize Larger Society Goals

ALL of us experience frustration, annoyance — and even rage — from being stuck in traffic. In the Puget Sound region, where traffic congestion ranks among the worst in the nation, most of us experience these feelings almost every day. But the problem goes well beyond a rotten commute. The gas that our vehicles consume as they sit in traffic, Read More ›

New Direction and Goals Unveiled at National Transportation Forum

Nearly 200 people packed downtown Seattle’s Arctic Club Hotel today for the Washington, D.C.-based Bipartisan Policy Center’s first national “field” forum to unveil its recommendations calling for dramatic shifts in transportation policy. The report, “Performance Driven: A New Vision for U.S. Transportation Policy,” was unveiled in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2009, and the BPC is now conducting a set Read More ›

Students Challenged to Study Evolution, Think for Themselves

This article, published by The Christian Post, quotes Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute: As students step foot on campus for another school year, an intelligent design proponent has offered a few tips for the millions who will face the teaching of evolution in their science classrooms. Tip number one, “never opt out of learning evolution,” says Casey Luskin, co-founder of Read More ›