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Group Pushing For Passenger-only Ferries

KPLU-FM reporter Bellamy Pailthorp interviews Cascadia Center’s Director Bruce Agnew on the day of Cascadia’s “Return Of The Mosquito Fleet” stakeholder forum at Salty’s on Alki in West Seattle. MP3 audio file of the report here.

One on One: Faith in Hierarchy

This article, published by the Jerusalem Post, includes an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder has been famous in the United States for more than three decades. Well, infamous would be a more accurate adjective – considering the political-cultural climate in which he emerged and to which he has devoted his life’s research and writings. The Read More ›

Swiss Build 21-mile Train Tunnel Through Alps

The San Jose Mercury News carries the full Associated Press story on the recent opening of the 21-mile Loetschberg Base Tunnel. Billed as the world’s longest land tunnel, it is a trainway built through the Alps to ease road congestion and deliver skiers twice as quickly from south of Bern to the gateway town of Visp near the Zermatt and Read More ›

The Edge of Evolution Q&A

If you have any questions about my new book, Edge of Evolution, you might enjoy taking a look at this brief interview I just gave. Question & Answer With Michael J. Behe, author ofThe Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism What do you believe Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do? THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION asks the sober question, what is it Read More ›

Interview with Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution

Question & Answer with Michael J. Behe, Author of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism What do you believe Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do? The Edge of Evolution asks the sober question, what is it reasonable to think Darwinian evolutionary processes can actually do? Unprecedented genetic data on humans and our microbial parasites (malaria, Read More ›

What does Being President Have To Do With Evolution?

“I’m curious, is there anyone on the stage that does not believe in evolution?” came the question at the first Republican presidential debate. Much has been made of the fact that three candidates raised their hands. The candidates were not allowed to elaborate, but what should they have said had they more time? What makes the original question difficult to Read More ›

Have the Democrats forgotten about Reno?

It is time for the Democrats to stop bleating about US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. They complain that last year he fired some US Attorneys that worked for him. He had the legal right to fire them for any reason at all, but the Democrats say that he did it for political reasons, and that makes the firings inappropriate. I Read More ›

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The Edge of Evolution

From C-SPAN2’s Book TV, Michael Behe talks about his book, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism (Free Press). Behe argued that advancements in the science of genetics reveal that the process of evolution is driven far more by pre-existing design than by random mutation and natural selection, the foundations of Darwin’s theory of evolution. After Read More ›

Treat Illness With a Dose of Thoughtfulness

Barack Obama is the latest Democratic candidate to offer a plan that would bring us closer to universal health care coverage, along socialized British or Canadian lines. Almost all the developed nations have turned to such models of government-directed medicine, while the United States has thus far resisted. Could this be because our country remains the most Bible-believing in the Read More ›