This article, published by The Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute and Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which funds research into intelligent design and of which Behe is a founding fellow, filed a friend of the court brief late Monday urging the judge to consider the teaching of intelligent design constitutional, Read More ›
This article, published by The New York Times, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
This article, published by The Washington Post, quotes Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Michael Behe: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell. The Read More ›
SEATTLE – A parent in California is suing the National Science Foundation for using more than a half-million federal dollars to develop a website that encourages science teachers to use religion to promote evolution. In announcing the suit Larry Caldwell, President of Quality Science Education for All, who is co-counsel in the suit with the Pacific Justice Institute, said, “the Read More ›
Harrisburg, PA — Today, the Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think tank researching intelligent design, filed an Amicus Curiae (i.e. “Friend of the Court”) brief in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case urging the judge to rule that it is not unconstitutional to teach about the scientific theory of intelligent design. The filing of the brief coincides with Read More ›
Click here to read a review (PDF) of Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross’ book, “Creationism’s Trojan Horse” by Jonathan Witt, from a forthcoming issue of the philosophy journal Philosophia Christi.
The fury of radical animal liberationists is growing, leading them to acts of brazen lawlessness and flagrant vigilantism. In the United Kingdom, a farm family that raised guinea pigs for medical testing was subjected to years of personal threats and property vandalism by animal liberationists. The family had courageously refused to be intimidated, but when the liberationists robbed the grave Read More ›
If you had to list 10 freedoms that are important to you from your most to your least important, how would you rank them? You might ask your family and friends the same question, and I expect you will find the lists and priorities quite different.Those who work in the media are likely to rank freedom of the press near Read More ›
This article, published by The Washington Post, quotes Tom Till of Discovery Institute: “This is exactly the right move to make,” said Tom Till, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute in Seattle who in 1999 led the Amtrak Reform Council, a group created by Congress to study the railroad’s problems. “The kind of funding needed to make the corridor work Read More ›
Editor’s note: The Cascadia Center has written a series of articles examining the state’s infrastructure deficit. This is the first of the series, which is being published exclusively by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Our predecessors understood the links between infrastructure and economic growth. They cut tunnels through the mountains that opened ports, dug a canal that linked Lake Washington Read More ›