Evidence of a Designer’s Purpose
Most of us find it annoying to be forced into a false dilemma. In a false dilemma, alternatives and gradations of belief are arbitrarily excluded as a technique of manipulation. Accept my version of orthodoxy or you’re a heretic! Jews and Christians employ this argumentative strategy, not least when conversation turns to emotionally charged subjects — like Darwinian evolution. And Read More ›
Feasibility Study’s Eastside Rail Dollar Projections Too High
Eastside Commuter Rail Project Could Cost $1B
This article, published by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “What we got out of it was that it is feasible from a ridership perspective,”said Bruce Agnew of the Discovery Institute, a long-time advocate for commuter rail. “If it showed poor ridership there would be no reason to go forward but this is healthy Read More ›
Toll-booth-free Tolling On SR 520 And I-90
The State Route 520 Tolling Implementation Committee’s “November Scenario Evaluation” document (pdf) released last week shows that the most robust regional financing for replacing the dangerously sub-par 520 bridge comes from time-variable tolling starting in 2010 and tolling the parallel I-90 span across Lake Washington, starting in 2010 or 2016. Tolling in this key east-west corridor would be done on Read More ›
Farmhouse Gang Priorities – Workshop Summary
Discovery Institute Announces Academic Freedom Day Student Video and Essay Contest
SEATTLE — Discovery Institute is sponsoring a student video and essay contest to commemorate Academic Freedom Day, February 12, 2009, on Charles Darwin’s bicentennial. Darwin once wrote, “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” That famous quote will be the touchstone for students to communicate Read More ›
What It Means to Be Human
Discovery senior fellow Wesley J. Smith has returned to podcasting with What It Means to Be Human, a podcast about the many policies and proposals in bioethics, bioscience, and animal liberation that threaten the idea of human exceptionalism and undermine universal human rights: On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in Human Read More ›
Assisted Suicide: The Wind in their Sails
Between 1994 and last Tuesday, the assisted-suicide movement in this country was moribund. After Oregon passed Measure 16 (the Death with Dignity Act) in 1994 and saw it go into effect in 1997 – despite widespread expectations, myriad state legislative efforts, and two voter referenda (Michigan and Maine) – no other state swallowed the hemlock. Frustrated advocates adopted an “Oregon-plus-one” Read More ›
Texas Science Standards Review
Background information Q&A about Texas State Board of Education’s review of Texas science standards. Reviews by science experts appointed by TSBOE Stephen C. Meyer – Download File Ralph W. Seelke – Download File Charles Garner – Download File David Hillis – Download File Gerald Skoog – Download file Ronald Wetherington – Download file