Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows more persuasively than ever before that Dawkins is wrong and that the origin of life continues to pose insurmountable difficulties to unguided material processes. The authors discuss why traditional origin-of-life research has failed and Read More ›
Jeff Belk, Senior VP of Strategy & Market Development, Qualcomm illuminates the immense accomplishments of the wireless revolution and its rapid growth. Read More ›
It is a bitter irony that even as we are enlarging our commitment to human equality in many areas, we are turning our backs on it in others. In particular, we may be about to eliminate from our society people with Down syndrome (DS) and other genetically caused disabilities. With the development of prenatal genetic diagnosis, the drive toward eugenics Read More ›
This article, published by the Christian Examiner, quotes Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute “The goal, really, is to have a serious intellectual investigation without getting angry about it, or being able to be friends while we were arguing about it,” said Luskin, a program officer with the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, one of the nation’s leading ID think tanks. The rest Read More ›
Discovery Institute recently hosted a lecture in Washington, D.C. featuring Benjamin Skinner, author of the new book A Crime So Monstrous. The lecture was recorded by C-SPAN’s BookTV. Check back for information on when the program will air. In the meantime, click here to read more.
The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough. Consider the experience of the Netherlands. When euthanasia was quasi-legalized there by court order in 1973, access to mercy killing and assisted suicide were supposed to be limited to the very few. The killing would all be governed by euthanasia guidelines that, the Dutch Read More ›
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com The loss of a child is one of life’s most painful experiences regardless of the cause, whether illness, accident, or injury. Parents say it’s almost unbearable to have a child die. But how about having your child forcibly removed from your home on suspicion of a crime you didn’t commit? Adding insult to injury, the accusations in question are Read More ›
On June 26, 2000, President Bill Clinton announced the completion of the Human Genome Project, which had just deciphered the sequence of DNA in a human cell. “Today,” he said, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” At the president’s side was Francis Collins, director of the project, who had helped to write Clinton’s speech. “It is Read More ›
This article, published by the Middle East Times, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter: John Wohlstetter, senior fellow of technology and democracy with the Discovery Institute in Washington, is less concerned about food safety but said we have to keep inspecting regularly, and he identified water supplies and the Internet as vulnerable. The rest of the article can be Read More ›
This article, published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder and Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: Bret Swanson and George Gilder of the Discovery Institute, a nonpartisan public-policy think tank based in Seattle, project the Internet will grow by 50 times by 2015. Swanson estimated that network operators will have to spend $100 billion in the Read More ›