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KNOXVILLE –— What is intelligent design and what scientific evidence supports it? Why is it so controversial? How does it differ from Darwin’s theory of evolution? Is there a purpose to the universe? What new scientific facts are turning evolutionary theories upside down? This one-day conference will answer these and other intriguing questions. The emerging scientific theory of intelligent design Read More ›

In the following C-SPAN2 BookTV presentation, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, George Gilder, interviews author John Naisbitt. The program is approximately one hour long. BookTV program page here, watch the program streaming on the C-SPAN2 site (Real Player required). Description: John Naisbitt’s first book, “Megatrends,” predicted future developments in the economy, business, government, technology, and social systems. The book sold nine Read More ›

This article, published by The Seattle Times, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “Hopefully, we can get up to four trains by 2012,” said Bruce Agnew of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center, a longtime advocate for regional rail connections. The rest of the article can be found here. (scroll down for article)

Do you believe only those who consent through their elected representatives should be taxed? Do you think it improper for government to push tax rates so high tax revenues decline, because people aren’t willing to work, save and invest as much as before? Do you think it is improper for government to make someone else, such as an employer or Read More ›

This article, published by The Vancouver Sun, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: A Vancouver-Seattle Olympics could give Cascadia a renewed buzz, says Bruce Agnew, director of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center. The rest of the article can be found here.

Addictions come in numerous varieties: drugs, alcohol, food, sex. How about fear? Many Americans seem almost addicted to the feeling of being afraid, whether of the apocalypse or the common cold. You see evidence of this in the way the news media serve up terrors to their customers. In comments trumpeted around the world, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking recently warned, “Life Read More ›

For decrying a Muslim congressman who wished to take a ceremonial oath of office on a Quran instead of a Bible, should KRLA-AM radio host Dennis Prager be punished? Specifically, should he be kicked off the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council? That is what a diverse range of Prager critics — from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to former New York Read More ›

This article, published by WorldNetDaily, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Richard Sternberg: What did happen to Dr. Sternberg is shocking even by Washington standards. The damage done to his career is real, irreversible and symptomatic of the lengths the science establishment will go to suppress challenges to the most vulnerable of its paradigms, namely Read More ›