Do you think things are getting better or worse around the world? Objectively, there is a correct answer, and that is unambiguously – better. No matter how you measure it – economic growth, life expectancy, childhood mortality, democratic countries, economic freedom, literacy, tax rates, crime rates, etc. – things are improving for most people in most places; and, in fact, Read More ›
This article, published by TheRealityCheck.org, mentions Discovery Institute’s William Dembski:
Read More ›Dubbed “intelligent design” to distinguish it from old-school thinking, this new view is detailed in The Design Inference (Cambridge University Press, 1998), a peer-reviewed work by mathematician and philosopher William Dembski.
In contrast to what is called creation science, which parallels Biblical theology, ID rests on two basic assumptions: namely, that intelligent agents exist and that their effects are empirically detectable.
SEATTLE, APRIL 5 — The controversial theory of intelligent design is the subject of a new science blog called Intelligent Design The Future, online at www.idthefuture.com. Its purpose is to explore the growing scientific evidence for purpose and design in the universe and living systems. There is a great lack of understanding about intelligent design, says Jay Richards, vice president Read More ›
I was one of those blissfully nerdy kids who fell in love with dinosaurs in the fourth grade and never outgrew it. In adulthood, people like me go to natural history museums, see Steven Spielberg movies and read the essays of the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. That is usually enough to keep us happy. But a couple of weeks Read More ›
THE ARGUMENTS OVER THE FATE of Terri Schiavo have sowed distrust among the courts and the political branches of government, and forced a state legislature, a popular governor, both houses of Congress, and the president of the United States into tight, uncomfortable political corners. The pending death-by-dehydration of this disabled, 41-year-old Clearwater, Florida, woman—thanks to a court order sought by Read More ›
Original article EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS–The Madison County Courthouse is an imposing structure: a full block long, four stories high, a marble edifice built in 1921 as a symbol of the era when Madison was the most industrialized county in Illinois. Today the county seat, Edwardsville, is home to only 21,000 people, and the surrounding county has been through a wrenching de-industrialization. Read More ›
The Silicon Eye is the soon to be released title of bestselling author and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder. The Silicon Eye tells the stirring and at times tragic story of an unprecedented invention that sprung from a Caltech effort to simulate a human retina in electronic form. This one-chip imager captures all three primary colors in each pixel Read More ›
George Gilder delivered the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law Symposium held at Duke Law School on April 1, 2005.