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Discovery Institute
August 21, 2003
Cascadia
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Institute Hails $9.3 Million Grant from Gates Foundation

Discovery Institute
August 21, 2003
Cascadia
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Bruce ChapmanDiscovery InstitutePhone: 206.292.0401 x101, E-mail: bchapman@discovery.org Amy LowGMMB (for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)Phone: 206.352.8598, E-mail: amy.low@gmmb.com Discovery Institute to expand efforts to create regional transportation solutions through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationMore than $9 million pledged over 10 years to Cascadia Project SEATTLE — The Discovery Institute today announced a Read More ›

Discovery Institute
August 20, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Discovery Institute Endorses Texas Freedom Network’s Call for Sound Science and Teaching Evolution

Discovery Institute
August 20, 2003
Intelligent Design
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AUSTIN, TX — Discovery Institute leaders today said they will sign the Texas Freedom Network’s “Stand up for science” petition which states, “I support sound science and the teaching of evolution.” “We’ve been standing up for sound science for a long time,” said Institute President Bruce Chapman. “We’ve been calling for biology textbooks to stand up and expand their teaching of Read More ›

Discovery Institute
August 20, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Texas Textbook Censors Misrepresent, Mislead and Miss the Point

Discovery Institute
August 20, 2003
Intelligent Design
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AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Freedom Network this week is launching an attack on science education in Texas, seeking to restrict the flow of information to students. TFN is asking for people to sign their petition supposedly to protect science textbooks from censorship, and claiming that there are efforts to insert creationism in textbooks, which is completely false. The truth Read More ›

Discovery Institute
August 19, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Texas Professors Urge State Board to Fully and Completely Teach Evolution

Discovery Institute
August 19, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Click here to open a PDF of the letter Two dozen professors from seven Texas universities have signed an open letter to the State Board of Education (see below) urging it to ensure that biology textbooks present both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological and chemical evolution. The open letter and list of signers, released Tuesday by Discovery Institute, Read More ›

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John G. West
August 8, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Institute Supports Accurate Science

John G. West
August 8, 2003
Intelligent Design
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When students study Darwin’s theory of evolution, should they learn only about its strengths, or should they also hear about its weaknesses? And should they learn about the best current evidence for evolution, or should they study outdated examples that have been discredited by the scientific community? Those are the real issues Discovery Institute has raised with the Texas State Read More ›

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William A. Dembski
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Encyclopedia Entry on Intelligent Design

William A. Dembski
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct — eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part of his life Read More ›

Stephen C. Meyer
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design
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DNA and the Origin of Life

Stephen C. Meyer
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design
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Abstract: Many origin-of-life researchers now regard the origin of biological information as the central problem facing origin-of-life research. Yet, the term 'information' can designate several theoretically distinct concepts. By distinguishing between specified and unspecified information, this essay seeks to eliminate definitional ambiguity associated with the term 'information' as used in biology. It does this in order to evaluate competing explanations for the origin of biological information. In particular, this essay challenges the causal adequacy of naturalistic chemical evolutionary explanations for the origin of specified biological information, whether based upon "chance," "necessity," or the combination. Instead, it argues that our present knowledge of causal powers suggests intelligent design or agent causation as a better, more causally adequate, explanation for the origin of specified biological information. Read More ›
John Wohlstetter
July 28, 2003
Technology
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Broadband Lite Blossoms:

John Wohlstetter
July 28, 2003
Technology
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Once upon a time broadband meant a cornucopia of services delivered via telecommunications, from frivolities like online video games to vital services like telemedicine, which enables prevention, and remote diagnosis, of disease. Computer science polymath David Gelernter looked towards “the day software puts the universe in a shoebox”— “mirror worlds” in which multi-dimensional virtual space becomes available over vast networks to all users. Read More ›
Multiple Authors
July 24, 2003
Uncategorized
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Good Reason To Shoot For The Moon

Multiple Authors
July 24, 2003
Uncategorized
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Original Article President Bush has announced an overhaul to NASA’s long-term goals and recommended that the United States once again send men (and perhaps women) to the moon. But the price tag for such ventures would be steep. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted in its Jan. 12 editorial (“It’s easy: Just stop spending”), with growing federal deficits the president’s goal Read More ›