Discovery Institute | Page 657 | Public policy think tank advancing a culture of purpose, creativity, and innovation.

Procedure Opens Window of Hope

Original Article The box felt empty. Still, its presence on the floor of the backseat weighed on Jennifer and Joe Makhlouf with the heft of a planet. The Lambertville couple drove to Chicago with this strange little container in their care. They could hardly bear to touch it. Inside the lunchbox-sized incubator were two tiny embryos. Since the 1980s, researchers Read More ›

La Grippe of the Trial Lawyers

JOHN KERRY wasted no time jumping on President George Bush about the unexpected shortage in flu vaccines this year. Why wasn’t Bush paying attention? He should have done things differently. And of course Kerry had a “plan” to solve the whole mess. If Kerry thinks he can solve the flu vaccine problem, he need look no further than his own Read More ›

Caldwell v. Roseville Joint Union High School District

Press Release announcing Caldwell v. Roseville Joint Union High School DistrictTimeline of events Official complaint of Caldwell v. Roseville Joint Union High School District filed on January 11, 2005.

Draft Rumor Targets Supposedly Gullible College Students, Says Volunteer Military Advocate

SEATTLE, OCT. 22 — “The most potent campaign rumor of the year is the web-induced claim that if re-elected Bush President will reinstitute the draft,” says Bruce Chapman, president of the Discovery Institute and a pioneer in the 1960s movement to institute an all-volunteer military. “It’s potent, but it is also false.” “Whether the Kerry camp originated the story or simply Read More ›

Review of The Privileged Planet

The Privileged Planet. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards. Washington, D.C. Regnery Publishing Inc., 2004. 446 pages. $27.95 hardcover. Do we owe our existence on Earth to chance or design? Do we occupy a privileged spot in space and time, primed for life and discovery? Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez and philosopher/theologian Jay W. Richards firmly stand in the design camp. In Read More ›

Dying to Donate?

As I travel the country speaking about the many ongoing controversies in bioethics, I am occasionally approached by grieving people who believe that a catastrophically injured relative who had been declared “brain dead” did not die from injuries but was actually killed during organ procurement. I always assure these emotionally devastated folks that as far as I have been able Read More ›

How To Deal With Evil

Assume you were on a ship that sank in the middle of the ocean. You, your family and 200 fellow passengers manage to reach a small isolated island where you think you can survive. Assume this happened before the advent of satellites, aircraft, and modern communications. This made it a rescue unlikely for many months, or perhaps years. A fellow Read More ›

Gilder Responds to Wired: The Materialist Superstition

Editors Note: In October Wired magazine proclaimed on its cover “The Plot To Kill Evolution.” Inside readers found a story entitled “The Crusade Against Evolution” portraying work on the theory of intelligent design at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC) as a religiously-motivated scheme to smuggle a disguised creationism into the public schools, rather than an evidence-based scientific Read More ›