God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?By John LennoxLion Hudson, 192 pages, $14.99 A friend recently put it to me that the Church has a Galileo Complex. Terrified by the historical narrative of the Church’s resistance to and persecution of science, Christians are averse to challenging “scientific” claims. “Complex” is an apt description, too: a group of unconscious impressions, not a Read More ›
When I was young, I lived in Chicago. As a college student, I lived in Evanston, Ill., which borders Chicago on the north, and later, as a law student, I lived in the heart of the city itself. Richard J. Daley was the mayor, the Democratic Party ran the city, and voter fraud was accepted as a fact of life. Read More ›
This article, published by The Christian Post, mentions Discovery Institute: “NAS manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design,” argues a Jan. 3 report by Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think tank, in response to the book. The rest of the article can be found here.
“Religion poisons everything,” Christopher Hitchens’s bestseller God Is Not Great declares in a constant, hymn-like refrain. “We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to Read More ›
This article, published by the Woodinville Weekly, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: The Cascadia Center for Regional Development, a transportation policy think tank, made a big push at the end of last year to promote utilizing the existing corridor for both transit and trail. The rest of the article can be found here.
Washington, DC — The National Academy of Sciences has published yet another report on evolution, titled ”Science, Evolution, and Creationism.” In the ample space of 89 pages, the NAS manages to celebrate evolution as an unassailable truth, completely misrepresent intelligent design, and rehash the same standard Darwinist arguments which have been refuted by critical scientists time and again. The NAS exaggerates Read More ›
Once to twice per month Cascadia Center distributes an e-mailed newsletter on our latest efforts and related news coverage. Readers have found it to be an informative update on regional transportation and related technology issues. If you’d like to receive the free Cascadia e-newsletter please send an e-mail to Jennifer Zucati, Cascadia Program Manager, at jenniferz@discovery.org In the subject line, Read More ›
This article, published by Christianity Today, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow David Berlinski: It’s hard not to envy the Berlinskis. … Father David, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, is a philosopher-mathematician who writes popular science books like A Tour of the Calculus (1996), taking on Darwinists like Read More ›
The search for a practical successor to the Alaska Way Viaduct has taken our region on a roller-coaster ride. Two high-profile alternatives — a new aerial structure and a cut-and-cover tunnel — crashed when their cost in disruption plus construction proved prohibitive. The issue became so hot that the architects of Proposition 1 didn’t even put a viaduct solution in Read More ›
To the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee’s views about evolution and Mitt Romney’s Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics. At the Read More ›