SEATTLE — Missouri state legislator Wayne Cooper has asked CNN to stop spreading misinformation about a bill he sponsored on the teaching of evolution. On April 4th, CNN erroneously reported that Missouri and other states are currently considering proposals that “would fire teachers who refused to teach alternatives to evolution theory….” In a letter to CNN President Jim Walton on April Read More ›
Recently there has been extensive press coverage of Rep. Bernard Sanders’ opposition to the USA Patriot Act. Much of this coverage has been inaccurate, unbalanced and unnecessarily frightening to the public. It is time to set the record straight. As recognized in the Declaration of Independence, the first responsibility of government is to preserve the lives and liberty of the Read More ›
Have the Canadians found a better balance between the public and private sectors? If you listen to many in the news media and many liberal Democrats, Canada is portrayed as a more ideal society than the U.S. It is viewed as peaceful, prosperous, honest and humane, and a country the U.S. should try to emulate. These critics in the U.S. Read More ›
WACO — Thanks to a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), public school teachers, and ordinary citizens, are now able to access online a generally helpful guide to evolutionary theory. Called Understanding Evolution: An Evolution Website for Teachers, it is the result of a collaboration between the National Center for Science Education, a private organization, and the Read More ›
original article In a small military hospital in Guam, a cardiac patient lay unconscious as a catheter was slid carefully into the right chamber of his heart. The surgery was fairly routine, save for one notable absence: The physician in charge wasn’t in the operating room during the procedure. In fact, he wasn’t even on the island. Dr. Benjamin Berg Read More ›
The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Seattle Congressman John R. Miller as Ambassador-at Large, upgrading his current position as head of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Miller leads much of the U.S. effort to fight slavery around the world. Miller, who served until last year as chairman of Discovery Institute’s Board of Directors in Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 6, 2004 SEATTLE, APRIL 6 — CNN is being urged to correct the record after airing a false report about proposed legislation in Missouri it claimed “would fire teachers who refused to teach alternatives to evolution.” In fact, the provision cited by CNN is no longer part of the Missouri bill. “Its whole story about legislation to Read More ›
original article (requires a subscription) Michael Powell, who runs the Federal Communications Commission, ended a recent visit to the Journal with a discussion of Internet telephony, the next so-called killer application that techno-gurus predictwill do for broadband penetration what e-mail did for the Internet. The technology, known as Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VOIP, will not only change the way Read More ›
To order DVD or VHS copies of Where Does The Evidence Lead? click here. Where Does the Evidence Lead?, like the documentary Unlocking the Mystery of Life from which it is derived, documents how scientists are abandoning naturalistic explanations for the origin of life and the universe and looking to theories of design for better answers. This video modularizes the Read More ›
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is on the front lines of the battle to keep religion out of the nation’s science classrooms. A group whose self-described mission is “Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools,” the NCSE routinely condemns anyone who wants to teach faith-based criticisms of evolutionary theory for trying to unconstitutionally mix church and Read More ›