Transportation continues to be a serious issue for Washington, and judging by the number of news articles on the subject it will be a topic of conversation for weeks to come. AAA remains concerned about the safety of highway users and the growing congestion in our major metropolitan areas, which frustrates motorists and contributes to unsafe conditions. Several actions during Read More ›
In a blatant attack on academic freedom a small number of faculty at Iowa State University have organized a petition denouncing intelligent design as unscientific and urged the university community to essentially ban the theory from campus. “The Darwinist inquisition is spreading,” said Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think-tank researching the theory of intelligent design. “Darwinists Read More ›
Original Article In the thinly disguised play based on the Scopes trial, Inherit the Wind, the Clarence Darrow character (Drummond) cross-examines the William Jennings Bryan character (Brady). To prove how intolerant Brady is in defending the law that forbade the teaching of evolution, Drummond asks Brady to suppose that Mr. Cates, the Scopes character, “had enough influence and lung power Read More ›
We are animals in our appetites, and animals again in our instincts and emotions. We are animals in biology. Blood is blood, tissue is tissue, and cells are cells; and when everything is stripped away, we are animals in the organization of our genes, mindful now that but for a few alterations of the human genome, we might well be Read More ›
This essay was originally published in Uncommon Dissent (ISI Books, 2004) edited by William Dembski.
Evolutionary theory has had a major impact on the development of biology since the appearance of On the Origin of the Species in 1859. Over the century following publication of that book, experiments and field observations led to successive refinements of the Darwinian theory of evolution, and it was confidently proclaimed as the foundation of biology in the Darwin Centennial year of 1959.
Such confidence is not warranted today. New technologies developed in the past four decades have revealed to us the chemistry underlying biological processes. These technologies have revealed that life is far more complicated than was imagined in 1959, and that much of its complexity cannot easily be addressed by existing evolutionary theory. Indeed some of the major discoveries in the life sciences presented in this article were hardly anticipated by evolutionary theory, but instead came out of advances in experimental technologies.
Read More ›A WASHINGTON MAN died recently from internal injuries he sustained while having sex with a horse. After his body was dropped off at a hospital, police discovered that out-of-towners had rented a rural farm and then made local animals available for use in bestiality. Yes, video taping was involved. This disgusting story should have had a quick ending with the Read More ›
This article, published by Seattle PI, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “Who sets priorities? Different agencies. Each agency has its own budget and its silo of funding. Each has a board of directors and a timetable,” said Bruce Agnew, Cascadia Project director at the Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found here.
Top business and investment minds are gathering this September in Squaw Valley, CA for “the second ascendance of the Telecosm,” the new economic landscape created by computers, data networks and an ever-growing list of new technologies. The 2005 Telecosm Conference, cohosted by Discovery Senior Fellow George Gilder and Forbes magazine Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes, is a technology summit for investors, engineers, Read More ›