Telecosm 2006
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In Just Ten Short Years Discovery Institute has Made The Debate Over Intelligent Design and Evolution Into a National Issue
“Discovery Institute seems to have done an absolutely brilliant job of taking a difficult position and, in effect, infusing the mass culture with it about as effectively as anything I’ve seen in recent years” said longtime news anchor Ted Koppel, opening an ABC News Nightline program on intelligent design last year. Over the past decade, Discovery Institute made intelligent design Read More ›
A Review of The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion and the Future of Democracy
In his recent book, Carson Holloway demonstrates the inability of neo-Darwinian theory to undergird the moral framework that is essential to a liberal democracy’s survival. A review of The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion and the Future of Democracy. The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion and the Future of Democracyby Carson HollowaySpence Publishing Company (January 30, 2006)Hdbk., 209 pgs.ISBN: 1890626619Reviewed by Seth Read More ›
The Danger of Over-Regulation
Original Article on Page 26 It is no secret that excessive regulation, such as excessive taxation of any business or industry, can weaken or even kill it. The financial industry is particularly sensitive to excessive regulation given that capital can flow from one regulatory jurisdiction to another at almost the speed of light. Appropriate regulation and the rule of law Read More ›
Alaskan Way Viaduct: Cities By The Bay
This article, published by Seattle PI, mentions Discovery Institute’ Cascadia Center: The Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center arranged the gathering to give city, county and state politicians, transportation officials and private-sector entrepreneurs a first-hand look at San Francisco’s expanding water transit system. The rest of the article can be found here.
The Turtle War
GRAND CAYMAN, the Cayman Islands Turtle Farm. — If people were not allowed to own chickens and if chicken eggs and meat could not be legally sold, how many chickens would there be? The reason chickens, cattle, catfish, and goldfish are not endangered is because they are owned by private parties, bred and raised in captivity, and sold for commercial Read More ›
Broadband Brawl
The 10th Annual Gilder | Forbes Telecosm Conference, held October 4-6, 2006 in Lake Tahoe, California, featured an outstanding panel and debate sponsored by the Discovery Institute on the subject of Network Neutrality regulation. Broadband Brawl: A Debate Over Net Neutrality Tod Cohen: Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel, Government Relations, eBay George Gilder, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute; Editor in Chief, Read More ›
Discovery Institute Has Put Over $4 Million Towards Scientific and Academic Research into Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Past Decade
Discovery Institute launched the Center for Science and Culture in 1996, recognizing the need for an institutional home for the emerging scientific theory of intelligent design. Even though the nascent theory of intelligent design was already being discussed by individual scientists around the world, it was not until the Center for Science and Culture was established that scientists were given Read More ›
U.S. Needs To Help Force Regime Change, Iranian Dissident Says
This article, published by Seattle PI, mentions Discovery Institute Amir Abbas Fakhravar … talked of his activism and his experiences, as well as the state of Iran and its future at the Discovery Institute in downtown Seattle on Wednesday. The rest of the article can be found here.
Political Science
WHEN CRITICS BEMOAN the politicization of science, they usually point a bitter finger at the Bush administration. Their condemnation should actually be aimed in the opposite direction. Increasingly, it is the scientists themselves—or better stated the leaders of the science sector—who are devolving science from the apolitical pursuit of knowledge into a distinctly ideological enterprise. The creation of a new Read More ›