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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin American Statesman Corrects Misleading Report about Discovery Institute Seattle, July 23, 2003 — The Austin American-Statesman has corrected a misleading report that falsely implied a connection between Discovery Institute and a group it says promotes “Christian theocracy.” In a statement published July 19 the newspaper corrected a report that first appeared in a July 8 front-page story Read More ›

Click here to access the review of Frank Beckwith’s “Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design” that originally appeared in the Harvard Law Review. As with all Book Notes that appear in the academic journals published by law schools, this Book Note was authored anonymously by a student editor.

Should Americans write the new Iraqi constitution? Should Americans determine how Iraq is governed in the future? We Americans have a legitimate interest in making sure the new Iraqi constitution will protect the liberties of the people, and result in their future prosperity and a successful state. To those ends, we should insist on certain constitutional standards and safeguards before Read More ›

Our Discovery Institute colleague, William L. Pierce, Phd., age 67, died early January 13 in Maryland after a protracted struggle with cancer. Many will remember Bill as the founder in 1980 of the National Council for Adoption (NCFA), an organization he headed for 20 years. I met him first in in 1983, when I was at the White House, and Read More ›

SEATTLE, JAN. 14 – “Let’s not abort the mission to the moon before we’re clear about it’s goals and values,” said astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, a member of NASA Astrobiology Institute, today in response to critics of President Bush’s announced intentions to push for a return to the moon. “So far all of the debate has been based on political and economic Read More ›

“Primo Posthuman—the 3M+ edition—More comfort, better performance, lower price,” touts the advertisement. The Primo Posthuman is ageless, has replaceable genes, allows for various upgrades, contains an error detection device, will run multiple viewpoints simultaneously. It is impervious to environmental damage, sports a “metabrain” and enhanced senses, and even includes gender changeability.  As of 2003, the Primo Posthuman is still on Read More ›

original article The government was behind the demise of WorldCom and the American telecommunications industry, according to George Gilder, author and one-time economic adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations. Gilder’s most recent book, titled “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World,” traces the failure of the American telecommunications industry to a confusing web of government over-regulation and an Read More ›

The European Commission and the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development based in Paris) are reprimanding and threatening several political and economic entities with blacklisting or other sanctions because of their economic policies. You are probably thinking they are going after Fidel Castro of Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, or the rulers of several African countries – all of Read More ›

Original article John R. Miller, the director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, is former Chairman of the board of Discovery Institute Do U.S. sanctions move other countries toward progress on human rights? Of one thing I am sure: On the emerging human rights issue of the 21st century — modern-day slavery — the Read More ›

Reprinted from The Creation Hypothesis, ed. by J.P. Moreland (InterVarsity Press, 1994) During the last thirty years the idea of design has undergone a renaissance in some scientific and philosophical circles. Developments in physics and cosmology, in particular, have placed the word design back in the scientific vocabulary as physicists have unveiled a universe apparently fine-tuned for the possibility of Read More ›