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Listen to the ID The Future Podcast

Click here to Subscribe to ID The Future What is the IDTF podcast? The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on the Center’s mission of exploring the issues central to intelligent design, letting people across the country know what’s happening in the debate between evolution and intelligent design, when it’s happening, and where to get more information about it all. IDTF is Read More ›

Reporters Without Borders Wrong on Press Freedom in Russia

Original Article The France-based non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders recently released its Worldwide Press Freedom index, which ranks Russia as 147th on a list of 168 countries in terms of protecting journalists and media expression. Russia’s 147th ranking is five spots behind the Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of the bloodiest conflict in the world, and just a few Read More ›

The Big Stem-Cell Breakthrough

DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THOSE HEADLINES? “Stem Cells Used to Create Artificial Liver,” the New York Times screamed on its front page. “Breakthrough! Stem Cells to One Day Create Organ for Liver Transplant,” was how the Washington Post put it. “Stem Cell Breakthrough Demonstrates Viability of New Science,” yelled the Los Angeles Times. “Stem Cell Hope for People Read More ›

Radio Interviews with Wesley J. Smith

Below are two links to archived audio of Wesley J. Smith’s recent radio appearances discussing stem cell research and public policy in Wisconsin and Missouri. Charlie Sykes talks with Smith about recent political ads featuring Michael J. Fox. Newsradio 620 WTMJ (WI) Derek Gilbert talks with Smith about Michael J. Fox and Amendment 2. The Eagle 93.9 KSSZ (Columbia, MO)

Miller Resigns State Department Post

This article, published by The Washington Post, mentions John Miller of Discovery Institute: Miller, who has headed the State Department’s anti-slavery office since 2002, also will serve as a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. His last day at the department will be Dec. 15. The rest of the article can be found here.

Discovery Blog Debuts

Check out the new Discovery Institute blog, “Discoveryblog.org“, a compendium of many subjects that are not covered in our other Discovery blogs. “All the Views that Fit.”

Review: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

This review appears in the October issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe, click here. The Language of God:A Scientist Presents Evidence for Beliefby Francis S. Collins(Free Press, 304 pages, $26) RECENTLY ASTROPHYSICIST and stalwart Darwin-defender George Coyne lectured before the largest scientific organization in the world, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As he railed against biological arguments for Read More ›

Savaged

Consider the case of Michael Savage, right-wing radio guy, and the not trivial effect he could have on the upcoming election. What’s curious about him is the tantalizing possibility — now with a smoking gun — that his three-hour daily show is an act, a put-on. According to Talkers magazine, he’s the country’s third-most-listened-to radio talk host, with 8.25 million listeners who Read More ›

Experimenting With Live Patients

In the new novel “Hunters of Dune,” biotechnologists of the future create “ghoulas” — clones made from the dead — in breeding contraptions known as “axlotl tanks.” About 100 pages into the novel, the reader is shocked to learn that axlotl tanks are really unconscious women whose bodies have been expropriated to serve the greater good as so many gestating Read More ›

Students Should be Taught Alternatives to Evolution

Original Article On Sept. 10, Norbert Bufka dealt with the controversy swirling around whether consideration of creationism and intelligent design should be permitted in public schools. Leading up to his negative conclusion on the issue, he made some misleading statements concerning the Bible. He alleged that the account of creation in the second chapter of Genesis is different from that Read More ›