Do you think your tax money should be given to international bureaucrats who give destructive advice to American policymakers? Well, that is what is happening — and worse yet, some unthinking souls in the news media and Congress have treated some of these detrimental recommendations with undeserved deference. A few examples should suffice. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Read More ›
Summary The definition of science proposed in the Minority Report is fully consistent with definitions used by all other states in the U.S. By contrast, the definition of science currently used in the Kansas standards and defended by the Majority is idiosyncratic and out of step with current educational practice. Click here to download the complete report. Kansas Science Standards Read More ›
This transcript, published by All Things Considered (NPR), is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Richard Sternberg:
Read More ›MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED: I’m Michele Norris.
Should intelligent design be mentioned in biology class? In a federal courtroom in Dover, Pennsylvania, this fall, lawyers, scientists and parents debated that question. On Tuesday, voters ejected the school board members who introduced the proposal, but a judge has yet to rule in the case.
Intelligent design is the idea that life is too complex to have evolved through Darwinian evolution. It’s stirring up controversy not only in high school classrooms but at universities and scientific research centers as well. As NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports, it’s part of a broader clash between religion and science in popular culture, academia and politics.
BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY reporting:
Everything about Richard Sternberg is careful: his wrinkle-free, button-down shirt; his spotless apartment; his deliberate, sometimes halting sentences. And so Sternberg, a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health, is puzzled to find himself smack in the middle of the culture wars. First, he wants to set the record straight.
Dr. RICHARD STERNBERG (Scientist, National Institutes of Health): I’m not an evangelical. I’m not a fundamentalist. I’m not a young Earth creationist. I’m not a theistic evolutionist.
Original Article A planned lecture by intelligent design proponent John Lennox has upset Samford University faculty who don’t want the Baptist-affiliated school to be seen as endorsing teaching alternatives to evolution. A resolution introduced in the College of Arts and Sciences’ faculty senate describes intelligent design as a political movement, not science. The resolution, by Samford geography professor Max Baber, Read More ›
Recent news stories have led to confusion about Discovery Institute’s role in the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District, which challenges a Pennsylvania school district policy requiring students to be notified about the theory of intelligent design. The lead attorney defending the Dover district, Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center, has made several statements inaccurately characterizing both Read More ›
This article, published by Science & Theology News, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: In 1995, a solar eclipse he saw in India made him think about Earth’s unique place in the universe — a place designed to be able to study such phenomenon. Though there was no “Eureka!” moment, Gonzalez felt strongly Read More ›
Seattle — Discovery Institute president Bruce Chapman hailed an impromptu statement Wednesday by Pope Benedict XVI embracing the “intelligent project” that lies behind nature. Fooled by atheism, the Pope said, many people today think, and try to demonstrate, that everything is without direction and order… Instead, said the pope, “Through sacred Scripture, the Lord awakens the reason that sleeps, Read More ›
The Associated Press cited Discovery Institute in an article on Kansas science standards published on Nov. 8, 2005: “Under these standards students will learn more about evolution, not less,” said Casey Luskin, a spokesman for the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports intelligent design research. Luskin added: “Anyone who reads the proposed science standards will see that they deal solely with Read More ›
Seattle — Kansas will become the fifth state in the nation to allow students to learn about the scientific evidence both for and against Darwinian evolution if the Kansas State Board of Education adopts proposed science standards tomorrow as expected. Discovery Institute praised the proposed science standards because they expand the information presented to students about biological and chemical evolution Read More ›
Discovery’s youngest internfifteen-year-old Alex Binzis the 2005 winner of the Independent Institute’s Olive W. Garvey Fellowship. Competing against undergraduate and graduate students from unversities all over the world, Binz came out on top, taking home the first prize of $2500. Original Essay It is hard to imagine two people more different. M. Lamartine was a poet who supported socialism; M. Read More ›