What should public schools teach about life’s origins? Should science educators teach only contemporary Darwinian theory, or not even mention it? Should school boards mandate that students learn about alternative theories? If so, which ones? Or should schools forbid discussion of all theories except neo-Darwinism? These questions are arising frequently as school districts around the country consider how to respond Read More ›
Do you feel more or less free today than you did 10 years ago? If you happen to be a property developer, sit on the board of a public corporation, often travel by air, like to spend your own money supporting political candidates and causes you believe in, or are outspoken in your Christian beliefs, you almost certainly answered the Read More ›
Mr. Weigel is an adjunct fellow of the Discovery Institute and a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center ROME — Benedict XVI: The name is the program, and the name is the man. St. Benedict was born in 480, in a small Umbrian village. In 529, as a monastic town was being built for Benedict and his Read More ›
Related information The question of whether Intelligent Design (ID) may be presented to public-school students alongside neo-Darwinian evolution has roiled parents and teachers in various communities lately. Whether ID may be presented to adult scientific professionals is another question altogether but also controversial. It is now roiling the government-supported Smithsonian Institution, where one scientist has had his career all but Read More ›
Federal government prosecutors are sending doctors to prison for making mistakes in filing Medicare paperwork. At the same time, Medicare customer service representatives are apparently not even reprimanded for a 96 percent error rate in answering questions about how to handle physician billings. These representatives work at call centers operated by insurance carriers handling Medicare claims, and are tasked with Read More ›
SACRAMENTO, JAN. 17 – A California school district has been sued in federal court for violating a parent’s civil rights during a controversy over how to teach evolution. For more than a year, Larry Caldwell tried to get the Roseville Joint Union High School District outside of Sacramento to consider changing how it taught the theory of evolution in its Read More ›
Original Article The current frenzied attack on the teaching of evolution in public schools in school boards across the United States is to be welcomed. There, I’ve said it. And no, I’m not a fundamental Christian, a creationist, or a right-wing ideologue. What I am is someone who sees an outstanding opportunity to exchange views with the naysayers, and a Read More ›
PRESIDENT BUSH WENT TO MADISON County, Illinois, last week to kick off his campaign for tort reform. “Junk lawsuits change the way doctors do medicine,” said the president, surrounded by a phalanx of doctors from southern Illinois. “Instead of taking care of patients, they’re worried about lawsuits.” Madison County — named the nation’s worst “judicial hellhole” by the American Tort Read More ›
In school districts across the country, Darwinists are waging a fierce campaign to protect students from learning about the scientific weaknesses of their theory. Now it appears they may also have convinced PBS affiliate KNME in Albuquerque, New Mexico to protect its viewers from this dangerous information. At the last minute, KNME cancelled “Unlocking the Mystery of Life,” a science Read More ›
How can guardians of the status quo protect Darwinism from competition in the classroom? One way is to play a definitional game, arguing that intelligent design isn’t science. They do this by claiming that when a scientist argues that something in nature was designed, she does so only because we’re ignorant about the details of how it arose naturally. Opponents Read More ›