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Good Governance

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 ›

David Klinghoffer on Michael Medved

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)

Scientists Should Keep Minds Open

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 ›

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Those Defensive Darwinists

The first court trial over the theory of intelligent design is now over, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. What sparked the legal controversy? Before providing two weeks of training in modern evolutionary theory, the Dover, Pa., School District briefly informed students that if they wanted to learn about an alternative theory of biological origins, intelligent design, they could read a book about it in the school library. The lawsuit is only the latest in a series of attempts to silence the growing controversy over contemporary Darwinian theory. Read More ›

Fox Q13 Interviews TDP Director Hance Haney

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 ›

Creation is a Revelation of God’’s Presence

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, “God’s love Read More ›

Origins by Court Order

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 ›

EU Threatens Innovation in Action Against Microsoft

Microsoft’s work group server competitors claim they can’t keep up with the complexity of Microsoft’s product upgrades. “We are, in many fields, ten years behind Microsoft. And the lag is growing with every new step Microsoft takes,” according to Volker Lendecke of the Samba Users Group, an organization dedicated to free software that anyone can copy. If they are forced Read More ›

Intelligent Design: Professors discuss Teaching the Controversial Subject

This article, published by The Cornell Daily Sun, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Psiaki discussed the mechanism of blood-clotting in mice, an example used by leading I.D. advocate Prof. Michael Behe, biological sciences, Lehigh University. The rest of the article can be found here.