This information is excerpted from the full report and description on KUOW broadcast on November 15, 2005. For more information about Cascadia Center For Transportation Co-Director Tom Till Click Here Last week the Amtrak board fired its President and CEO, David Gunn. The General Accountability Office had just issued a report critical of Amtrak operations. Today there is a congressional Read More ›
This article, published by The Claremont Institute, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Around this time, another revolution was underway, one that would also change how Republicans viewed government. This was supply-side economics — or “Reaganomics.” Ronald Reagan learned from supply-siders like Arthur Laffer, George Gilder, and Paul Craig Roberts that taxes matter, and that cutting excessive tax rates Read More ›
Brave New World is rushing toward us at mach speed: Scientists have already created cloned human embryos; a Stanford biotechnologist may bioengineer a mouse to have a human brain; “designer babies” have already been created to provide stem cells for sick siblings. Some believe such research is leading us toward a veritable utopia: “By the end of the 21st Century,” Read More ›
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 ›