Original Article The issue: Should public schools teach “intelligent design,” the theory that the universe and its life forms are so complex that a higher cause must have been involved in making them? ( Related: Read previous columns) Bob : Cal, I’m going to stray from the consensus liberal line on the issue of intelligent design. The Dover, Pa., school Read More ›
This article, published by the Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture: However, several institute fellows are on the center’s advisory board, including such prominent ID advocates as William Dembski and Michael Behe, and Luskin recently became the program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The rest of Read More ›
Kyeong-Sook Cha and Soon-Hee Ma, two defectors from North Korea, testified for the House Committee on International Relations, and provided firsthand accounts of widespread tragedy occurring in the Sino-North Korean border areas. In order to avoid the massive starvation resulting from North Korea’s failed economy, the daughters of these women had escaped to China to earn money for food. When Read More ›
Have you noticed Congress and administrations periodically claim they will save a great deal in some government program by ending “waste, fraud, and abuse,” and then provide a “number” representing the obtainable savings? Yet few ever ask how the waste, fraud, and abuse got there in the first place, and why they are not taken out of every other government Read More ›
Editors’s Note: In an interview with radio host Michael Medved, Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer discusses the Anti-Defamation’s anti-Christian campaign, what traditional Jews and Christians have in common, and Klinghoffer’s new book Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Doubleday). Audio MP3 (17.2MB)
By now, everyone who follows the news has heard about intelligent design (ID). Contrary to caricatures, it’s a theory that draws on insights in well-established fields such as information and probability theory, forensics, and the philosophy of science. Design theorists argue that certain features of the natural world bear markers of intelligent agency. For instance, a whole series of physical Read More ›
Original Article Seattle is on the cutting edge when it comes to technology. With companies like Microsoft in our backyard developing technologies like you’ve never seen before. As we continue our special series Seattle 2013, catch a glimpse of the technology of the future. Today, in 2013, Seattle is a new city. Much of it is thanks to technology. When Read More ›
Psalm 136 has been called The Great Hallel, a solemn and majestic hymn of praise that the Jewish people would sing during the Passover liturgy. We have just listened to the first part of the psalm, according to the division used in the Liturgy of the Hours evening prayer. Let us reflect first of all on the refrain, Gods love Read More ›
Original Article The hotly worded federal court decision spanking a Pennsylvania school board for raising doubts about evolution sparked the usual fulminations by evolution advocates and its discontents. That’s unfortunate. In reality, the actions of the Dover school board and the court decision are both regrettable. The trial record, at least as summarized in the decision of federal District Court Read More ›