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A Stem Cell Tale

IT NEVER FAILS. If an embryonic stem cell researcher issues a press release touting a purported research advance, the media trip over each other to give the story full dramatic fanfare. But if an even better adult or umbilical cord blood stem cell advance comes to light—even when the experiments involve humans—you can usually hear the crickets chirping.  The latest examples Read More ›

Nature’’s Evidence Leads us to a Place of Wonder

British philosopher Antony Flew has been called the world’s most influential philosophical atheist. As far back as his debates with Christian apologist C.S. Lewis in 1950, he argued that there simply wasn’t enough evidence for a creator. Now Flew has changed his mind. Those who admired his intellect when he was an atheist should listen carefully to his reasoning now—for Read More ›

Entertaining the notion of a place of wonder

British philosopher Antony Flew has been called the world’s most influential philosophical atheist. As far back as his debates with Christian apologist C.S. Lewis in 1950, he argued that there simply wasn’t enough evidence for a creator. Now Flew has changed his mind. Those who admired his intellect when he was an atheist should listen carefully to his reasoning now—for Read More ›

No Need to Fear Teaching the Controversy

In today’s Washington Post: Who’s Afraid of Intelligent Design?” SEATTLE, Wash. – The Discovery Institute is featured in a commentary on the op-ed page in today’s Washington Post about the controversy over the teaching of evolution. The commentary, written by Post education reporter Jay Matthews, argues in favor of teaching the controversy over evolution in public schools and goes even Read More ›

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Teaching Darwin

Eighty years ago this summer, the Scopes trial upheld the effort of the state of Tennessee to exclude the teaching of Darwinian evolution from Tennessee classrooms. The state claimed Darwinism contradicted orthodox religion. But times change, and recently a federal judge ruled that a three-sentence sticker stating that "evolution is a theory not a fact" must be removed from Georgia high school biology texts because it contradicts orthodox science and represents an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. Both legal mandates--no Darwin yesterday, nothing but Darwin today--look less like science than exercises in thought control. Read More ›

Panel: Gas Tax Should Go Up

Original Article A coalition of business, labor, environmental and civic leaders yesterday urged the Legislature to raise the state gas tax 10 cents a gallon over the next two years to help pay for replacements for the imperiled Alaskan Way Viaduct and Highway 520 floating bridge as well as other transportation projects. The viaduct and 520 should be priorities because Read More ›

Who’s Afraid of Intelligent Design?

Original Article My favorite high school teacher, Al Ladendorff, conducted his American history class like an extended version of “Meet the Press.” Nothing, not even the textbooks other teachers treated as Holy Writ, was safe from attack. I looked forward to that class every day. My biology class, sadly, was another story. I slogged joylessly through all the phyla and Read More ›

Discovery Calls Dover Evolution Policy Misguided, Calls For Its Withdrawal

SEATTLE, DEC. 14 – The policy on teaching evolution recently adopted by the Dover, PA School Board was called “misguided” today by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, which advised that the policy should be withdrawn and rewritten. “While the Dover board is to be commended for trying to teach Darwinian theory in a more open-minded manner, this is Read More ›

Civic Leadership Group Calls for Prioritizing Viaduct and Evergreen Point Bridge

Contact: Bruce Agnew or Dave Earling, Cascadia Center(206) 292-0401 (ext.113 or 144)(206) 228-4011 or (206) 920-5593 cell phone Civic Leadership Group Calls for Prioritizing Viaduct and Evergreen Point BridgeEndorses $8 Billion/10 Year State Revenue Package & Comparable Regional Package The Transportation Working Group (TWG), an assemblage of civic leaders drawn from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties and staffed by the Read More ›