School Officials Must Answer in Court for Alleged Religious Discrimination Sacramento, CA – In an important legal victory for citizens seeking to improve how evolution is taught in public schools, a federal judge has ruled that California citizens have a Constitutional right under the First Amendment to put proposed evolution policies on the agenda of local school board meetings for Read More ›
Advocates of assisted suicide label hastened death a “compassionate choice.” But such gooey euphemisms seek to hide the harsh truth: Assisted suicide isn’t about caring: It is about the intentional ending of human life an act barred by the Hippocratic Oath for more than 2000 years. We are told that assisted suicide would be restricted to cases of unbearable Read More ›
Original Article It’s always something. The problem is, not all somethings are created equal. But when you’ve got politicians anxious to appear alert (or deflect attention from more pressing matters), and media always desperate to huckster their wares, and people willing to say the most outrageous things in order to get attention and funding – who can tell what’s really worth fretting over? The Read More ›
This article, published by the Seattle PI, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen C. Meyer: Among the panelists was Stephen C. Meyer, a fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that represents many scholars who support intelligent design. He said intelligent design was “based upon scientific evidence and discoveries in fields such as biochemistry, molecular biology, paleontology and Read More ›
This article, published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, mentions Discovery Institute: William Dembski, a Ph.D. mathematician and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute put it to me this way. “At the molecular level in living beings we’re finding a world of high-tech gadgets that exceed anything explained by Darwinian evolution. … “ The rest of the article can be found here.
The president’s tax reform panel’s report is due at the end of this month, but don’t hold your breath if you were looking for the reform that is really needed. Preliminary signs are the panel will recommend relatively modest (but several desirable) changes to the federal tax system. For decades the present income tax system, with its tens of thousands Read More ›
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s “Finding Design in Nature” from the July 7 New York Times, still generates a considerable stir since its publication. Although his precisely worded statement merely reiterates the Catholic Church’s critical view of evolutionism (see John Paul II, Fides et ratio, no. 54; General Audience, 27 May 1998, No. 5), some believe that Schönborn’s “unofficial” clarification signals a Read More ›
This article, published by CBS News, mentions Discovery Institute: The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, cradle of the intelligent design theory, produced a video saying, “There is, in fact, no entity in the known universe that stores and processes information more efficiently than the DNA molecule. Every DNA has 3 billion individual characteristics.” The rest of the article can be found here.
Remove from the natural sciences the mystery of beauty, of purpose, and of meaning, and you are left with evolutionism. It is neither a hypothesis nor a fact; it is rather a method, a discipline. Existence, proclaimed Richard Dawkins, “is no longer a mystery,” the riddle having been solved by Darwin and Wallace. And yet the riddle remains. This last Read More ›
This article, published by PennLive, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The rest Read More ›