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Evolution is once again in the public spotlight. As always, local school boards and legislatures debate it; lawyers from California to Kansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania litigate it. But this time around there is a noticeable change. The topic is no longer fuelled merely by the next lawsuit or flap over textbook stickers. One opens a recent New Yorker and sees Read More ›

This article, published by The Seattle Times, is about John Miller, former chairman of Discovery Institute: During his “missing years,” Miller became involved with the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based conservative-leaning think tank, and headed its board from 2000-2002. The rest of the article can be found here.

The New York Times has run two major front page stories on Discovery Institute and intelligent design.   The Sunday edition (Aug. 21) features a major profile of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC) that credits the Institute with transforming the public debate over evolution in America. By advocating “a ‘teach-the-controversy’ approach to evolution,” reports the Times, “the institute has… transformed the debate into Read More ›

NOTE: Intelligent Design (ID) has become the issue du jour with the mainstream media. Earlier this year we launched a blog to critique the media coverage of this issue. Be sure to visit Evolution News & Views, evolutionnews.org for regular updates. SEATTLE, JAN. 4 — The misreporting of the evolution issue is the focus for the new blog Evolution News Read More ›

Original Article Have you heard about Flying Spaghetti Monsterism? FSM is a four-month-old ”religion” founded on the belief that the universe was created by an invisible flying clump of spaghetti and meatballs. This blob of pasta, FSM’s ”followers” say, uses its ”noodly appendage” to play an ongoing role in human affairs. For example, it tampers with carbon-dating tests to make Read More ›

This article, published by World Magazine, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: John West, a senior fellow at the ID-advancing Discovery Institute, considers such rhetoric a clear indication that the pro-evolution mainstream feels threatened . “The more they continue in their campaign of condescension or accusing everyone who believes in Intelligent Design of wanting theocracy, they really lose the Read More ›

Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity.  Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much. Not too little. In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, “Finding Design in Nature,” Cardinal Schönborn issued a crystal-clear warning to proponents of Darwinism: Stop misusing Pope John Paul II’s Read More ›

People who consider themselves very rational argue that most disputes about what is true and what is not can be settled by calmly looking at the evidence and letting it guide them to the proper conclusion. However, many who claim to be adherents of the scientific method seem to lose their “scientific objectivity” in some of the great debates of the day.

The global warming debate is a glaring example of where many enthusiasts have lost all sense of the scientific method in reaching their conclusions. Some European leaders have even implied President Bush and Americans are stupid for not embracing both the theology of global warming and their policy solutions, all designed to enhance state power.

To rationally debate the issue, we should start by being modest about what we do and do not know. Arguably, it seems the globe has been very slowly warming in the last few decades. But remember: Only a couple of decades ago, many leading scientists — like Carl Sagan — warned us about global cooling.

Original Article Granite Bay resident Valerie Weinberg sees a striking similarity between the fight she waged to keep anti-evolution material out of her sons’ high school science classes and the trial unfolding this week 2,700 miles away in Pennsylvania. “I see it as right along the lines of what we would have had to deal with had our board voted Read More ›