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 ›
Did the software in the cell, DNA, write itself? Is genetic information the only information that science has ever encountered that was not generated by an intelligent agent? These are some of the questions raised by the scientific and cultural war going on over Charles Darwin’s theory and its modern challenger, intelligent design. In an April 6 Jerusalem Post op-ed, Read More ›
Do you think too much or too little is spent on defense? The U.S. government now spends a half-trillion dollars a year on its military, or about $1,700 for every man, woman and child in America. I asked the opening question in the way many members of the media and political class pose it. The correct question is: What does Read More ›
The world that George Gilder envisioned in his provocative book Life After Television (Norton, 1990) has nearly arrived — more than a decade and a half behind schedule. Nowhere is that more evident than in the growth of the ‘blogosphere’ which threatens to overthrow the influence of the mass media by providing consumers with an endless supply of unfiltered news Read More ›
It is no secret that politicians frequently put all of us at risk because of their real or willful ignorance. Most wars are a result of political miscalculations, but so are many recessions, depressions and other economic calamities. What follows are three examples where the political class is putting us in danger because of economic ignorance or worse. U.S. Sens. Read More ›
SEATTLE – After several years of claiming that there is no debate about the theory of intelligent design (ID) researchers have published an article bringing the debate to the pages of the latest issue of Science. Three researchers, Jamie Bridgham, Sean Carroll and Joe Thornton claim to have shown how an irreducibly complex system, such as that described by Discovery senior fellow Read More ›