About the Author: For the last 28 years Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig has been working on mutation genetics at the University of Bonn and the Max-Planck-Institute für Züchtungsforschung in Cologne (Bonn 7 years, Cologne 21 years).The present article represents his personal opinion on the topic and does not reflect the opinion of his former or present employer. The author, not a fellow Read More ›
The competitive local exchange carriers are always looking for another shot in the arm by peddling their familiar “pro-competitive” theory of antitrust that would require the government to pick winners and losers and would have a chilling effect on investment. Yesterday they renewed their effort to force Verizon and AT&T to divest all network fiber they acquired in last year’s Read More ›
What are the Kansas science standards really about? Kansans will now be able to learn for themselves as three experts will explain why the revised standards were necessary at a series of free symposiums across Kansas. The efforts to mislead Kansas citizens about the state’s new science standards will hopefully be curbed by these symposiums. “Practically everything opponents have said about these changes is Read More ›
Meaningful or meaningless? Purposeful or pointless? When we look at nature, whether at our living earth or into deepest space, what do we find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey begins with Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid’s geometry, the Read More ›
VIENNA, Austria. — Human lifespans in developed countries have been increasing 15 seconds every minute for the past 125 years, and they are increasing even faster in the developing countries — on average about 20 seconds every minute. This means that in Europe and America lifespans increase about one year over every four-year period. Why has this happened? In one Read More ›
This article, published by The Kansas City Star, mentions Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: Officials from the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, based in Seattle, said they’re trying to counter criticism of the standards from many scientists and national science groups. John West, a center vice president, said Read More ›
This article, published by Lawrence Journal-World, mentions Discovery Institute: The high-powered Discovery Institute, which promotes the theory of intelligent design, said Friday it will launch a campaign to persuade Kansans that controversial science standards approved by the State Board of Education are sound. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by The Kansas City Star, mentions Discovery Institute and quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: “What we’re trying to do is counter a campaign of misinformation which is widely distorting what the standards say and do,” said John West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
In “A Mathematicians View of Evolution,” (The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 22 (4) (2000)), mathematician Granville Sewell explains that Michael Behe’s arguments against neo-Darwinism from irreducible complexity are supported by mathematics and the quantitative sciences, especially when applied to the problem of the origin of new genetic information. Sewell notes that there are “a good many mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists Read More ›
New Public Education Effort Encourages Citizens to Stand Up For Science, Stand Up For Kansas TOPEKA, KS – “Should public schools censor scientific evidence just because it challenges Darwin’s theory of evolution?” asks Robert Crowther, director of communications for Discovery Institute a non-partisan public policy center. “Of course not. Teachers should present all the scientific evidence, including both the strengths Read More ›