Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom … What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth: that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired for the crime of merely believing that Read More ›
I had a telling conversation with an old friend several months ago, a devoted environmentalist who’s a community college biology teacher living south of San Francisco in a pleasant small town abutting the Pacific. I don’t recall how it came up, but she declared, “We’ve just got to get more people out of their cars.” Then came a pregnant pause, Read More ›
This article, published by the Associated Baptist Press, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer and Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute: One of them, Stephen Meyer, is vice president of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based group that advocates balancing evolution with teaching about “intelligent design.” … Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs at the Discovery Institute’s Read More ›
The segment aired several times during morning drive, and featured Cascadia Center’s Director, Bruce Agnew. Link to mp3 audio
Discovery Fellow Wesley J. Smith appeared on WBAI radio in New York. The link is available here: http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/081026_120001btpale.MP3
The Human Life Foundation honored Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith with the 2008 Great Defender of Human Life Award on Thursday, October 16, 2008, in New York City. “I am so humbled and honored to be named a Great Defender of Life by the Human Life Foundation in recognition of my efforts to prevent the legalization of assisted Read More ›
This article, published by OSV Newsweekly, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: And, according to lawyer and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute … anyone in the world now has the right to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Ecuador’s Pachamama or any part of it, like rocks, piranhas or pond scum. The Read More ›
Expelled documents the plight of scientists and scholars who dare to question the claims of Darwinian evolution. This past year Expelled helped to inspire state legislators to advance academic freedom in six states. As a result, in June, Louisiana successfully passed the Louisiana Science Education Act to protect scientists, teachers and students who voice their skepticism of Darwinism. Please encourage your friends and family to see this important film, and to sign the academic freedom petition like you did.
Read More ›From the movie Expelled, Ben Stein asks Michael Ruse, a prominent atheist and philosopher of science, to explain to him how life originated.
This article, published by Crosscut, mentions Discovery Institute: At a fascinating forum thrown this week by Discovery Institute in Seattle, Canadian experts were depicting this party as a post-ideological compound rather like the Scandinavian formula: libertarian on social issues, free-market on the economy, and radical on the environment. The rest of the article can be found here.