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Discovery Institute
February 7, 2008
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Stellar Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Denied Fair Hearing by Iowa State Board of Regents

Discovery Institute
February 7, 2008
Intelligent Design
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The Board of Regents of the State of Iowa has denied the tenure appeal of Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Gonzalez’s appeal has been ongoing since the summer of 2007, when he was first denied tenure by ISU. “We are extremely disappointed that the Board of Regents refused to give Dr. Gonzalez Read More ›

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February 7, 2008
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ENV Coverage of Gonzalez Academic Freedom Case at Iowa State University

Discovery Institute
February 7, 2008
Intelligent Design
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Iowa Citizens for Science Stealthily Promotes Misinformation about Guillermo Gonzalez and Discovery Institute, December 26, 2007 ISU Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez’s Stellar Publication Record Outshines Colleagues, December 14, 2007 Cataloguing Darwinist Denials and Flip-Flopping over the Role of Intelligent Design in ISU’s Tenuregate, December 11, 2007 Wired Magazine Acknowledges Discrimination against Guillermo Gonzalez and Understands What the Ames Tribune Ignored, December Read More ›

Discovery Institute
February 6, 2008
Foreign Policy
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Wohlstetter on C-SPAN Book TV

Discovery Institute
February 6, 2008
Foreign Policy
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Book TV on C-SPAN 2 will air a lecture this coming weekend by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter, author of the new book The Long War Ahead and the Short War Upon Us. Broadcast times follow (all PST): Saturday, February 9th at 8:00 PM Sunday, February 10th at 4:00 AM Sunday, February 10th at 10:00 AM Check your local Read More ›

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Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
February 5, 2008
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Designed for Discovery

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
February 5, 2008
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A discovery requires a person to do the discovering, and a set of circumstances that makes it possible. Without both, nothing gets discovered. Read More ›
William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design
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Detecting Design in the Natural Sciences

William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design
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How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. For Read More ›

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William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
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Intelligent Design: A Brief Introduction

William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
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Intelligent design (ID) studies patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence. Is that radio signal from outer space just random noise or the result of an alien intelligence? Is that chunk of rock just a random chunk of rock or an arrowhead? Is Mount Rushmore the result of wind and erosion or the creative act of an artist? We ask such questions all the time, and we think we can give good answers to them. Read More ›
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Bruce Gordon
February 5, 2008
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The Scientific Status of Design Inferences

Bruce Gordon
February 5, 2008
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Scientific practice assumes that the universe, in both its origin and function, is a closed system of undirected physical processes. While many scientists reject this assumption as the ultimate truth, they still think that it is essential for science to function as if it were true. This means that they have accepted methodological naturalism as a necessary constraint on their practice as scientists. Methodological naturalism is the doctrine that in order to be scientific, an explanation must be naturalistic, that is, it must only appeal to entities, causes, events, and processes contained within the material universe. Even if we grant that this restriction on permissible explanations has been a fruitful strategy for science, we must still ask whether it is methodologically required by science. Read More ›