Congratulations to author/philosopher George Weigel, a senior fellow and former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and an adjunct fellow of Discovery Institute, who has just been accorded the highest award given by the government of Poland. On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented Weigel with the Read More ›
The bioethics committee at St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, Texas has decreed that Andrea Clarke should die. Indeed, after a closed-door hearing, it ordered all further medical efforts to sustain her life while at St. Luke’s to cease. As a consequence, Clarke’s life support, required because of a heart condition and bleeding on the brain, is to be removed unilaterally Read More ›
THERE IS A PRETENSE in contemporary assisted suicide advocacy that goes something like this: “Aid in dying” (as it is euphemistically called) is merely to be a safety valve, a last resort only available to imminently dying patients for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating Read More ›
WIER HARMON: Good evening everybody. My name is Wier Harmon; Im the Executive Director of Town Hall Seattle, and Im awfully glad youre here to join us for tonights conversation. If youre still if looking for seats, there are a few stray singles scattered throughout the center section. And then there are two and three seats available together on the Read More ›
This article, published by the North Country Gazette, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Award winning author Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, notes that “the treatment is apparently being removed because it works, not because it doesn’t—which Read More ›
Why do Mexicans only have one-third the per capita income (on a purchasing power parity basis) of Canadians and only one-fourth that of Americans? The answer is that Mexicans are relatively poor because have been plagued by semidespotic regimes that have ignored the rule of law and often engaged in destructive economic policies. Mexicans have been free of their Spanish Read More ›
In 2003, three days shy of the Fourth of July, I was naturalized as an American citizen in Seattle. With the exception of the day I married my wife, this was the happiest day of my life. It had been a long journey since I first came to the United States, legally, nearly 20 years ago. During this time, I Read More ›
Original Article (PDF) (German) Re: Did Humans Descend from Apes?, Article of May 5. Although the majority of scientists believe in a naturalist origin of life and its higher development, only a small minority are actually in a position to defend this trust with technical reasoning. In the Mannheim area hundreds of PhD scientists who do not believe this theory Read More ›
Copyright © 2006 Casey Luskin. All Rights Reserved. A PDF of this article can be read here. Abstract In Kitzmiller v. Dover, Judge John E. Jones ruled harshly against the scientific validity of intelligent design. Judge Jones ruled that the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum, as argued by intelligent design proponents during the trial, was refuted by the testimony of Read More ›