Ten years ago, Washington gave us the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The law’s complex and intrusive implementation by the Federal Communications Commission and the 51 state utility commissions resulted in the $3 trillion technology crash of 2000-02 and has now plunged the U.S. to 16th in the world in residential broadband rankings. Yet for Hoosiers, hope abounds. Indiana is possibly Read More ›
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Original Article In Kansas, in recent months, there has been much discussion about the theory of evolution versus the theory of Intelligent Design. The discussion has become quite intense with the proponents of evolution claiming that Intelligent Design theorists were attempting to bring theology and philosophy into the science laboratory. Last week, in this space, I discussed the relationship between Read More ›
This article, published by Rocky Mountain News, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Futurist George Gilder, expected to deliver the keynote speech, could not keep a lid on his enthusiasm in a statement announcing the conference, which gets started in earnest this morning. “Colorado has become Silicon Mountain, snowcapped with software,” he was quoted as saying. The rest of Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The following audio was recorded from a talk given by Wesley Smith at Discovery Institute’s Washington DC office on February 22, 2006. Download Audio MP3 (34.7MB)
Modern biology has discovered that cells are like miniaturized factories that function using micromolecular machines. In Darwin’s Black Box (1996), Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe proposed that many of these molecular machines exhibit irreducible complexity and therefore could not have been produced by an undirected Darwinian process. Instead, they appear to be the product of intelligent design. Behe’s book initiated a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside of the scientific community, and the debate continues to rage. As the responses below demonstrate, Behe’s arguments have not been refuted. Indeed, the case for the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum and other molecular machines has continued to grow.
Read More ›Since Betty Friedan’s death I’ve found myself wishing that the cause I care about most had a voice like hers to speak for us. That cause is traditional Judaism — which, among many others things to recommend it, offers a wiser and ultimately more humane vision of womanhood than does feminism. Indeed, women under 45 or so have mostly seen Read More ›
This article, published by the South Bend Tribune, quotes Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: “This is all about giving Indiana citizens and businesses the communication tools they need to compete in a global economy,” said Bret T. Swanson, a senior fellow for the Discovery Institute, a pro-deregulation think tank based in Washington, D.C. The rest of the article can be Read More ›