As part of a growing trend worldwide and nationally, the event known as Darwin Days was celebrated across campus Feb. 12-14. Darwin Days is dedicated to the renowned scientists Charles Darwin, famous for his research and his theories on evolution, on his birthday Feb. 12th and the two following days. Several programs were held for students and faculty in which Read More ›
The past four centuries have not been especially kind to religious believers. Every time scientists have peered through a microscope or a telescope, their findings have usually challenged popular notions about God. Religious authorities have often fought back. But the latest discoveries about the human genome have produced no such backlash. At least, not yet. This week’s revelations, published in Read More ›
CBN.com–There are thousands of biology books targeted for everyone from toddlers to graduate students. In all their diversity, they have one thing in common. They support Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But do these biology textbooks support true science or science fiction? Most people think that high school and college biology textbooks reflect the latest and most accurate scientific information. Read More ›
On Valentine’s Day, 2001, the Kansas Board of Education voted to change the state’s science teaching standards to emphasize evolution and the Big Bang theory in the teaching of how life began on earth. The current board members have overturned a 1999 set of science standards that were passed by a more conservative board. The conservative board, in an effort Read More ›
Mr. Gilder, editor of the Gilder Technology Report and Senior Fellow of Discovery Insitute, is author of “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Change Our World.” Mr. Swanson is a technology analyst at the Gilder Technology Report. Dear Mr. Powell: Whether you know it or not, your leadership and decisions over the next four years will have more impact on the Read More ›
Design theorists argue that intelligent design constitutes a valid scientific research program aimed at understanding the effects of intelligence in the natural world. There is currently considerable debate whether this program is indeed valid, and in particular whether concepts like specified complexity or irreducible complexity, are coherently defined and can usefully be applied to actual systems in nature. In her Read More ›
People who are elderly, disabled, prematurely born, or seriously ill have much to fear from the medical intelligentsia — those bioethicists and moral philosophers who have in recent years transformed medical ethics. It was bioethicists and moral philosophers, after all, who made it acceptable to dehydrate to death people diagnosed as permanently unconscious — a practice that has already spread Read More ›
So, what can be done about Y2K? Technology writer and Discovery Institute fellow George Gilder terms the attitude within the tech industry “a strange one…There don’t seem to be enough people between the positions of ‘panic’ and ‘don’t worry.’ And many knowledgeable people don’t even want to talk about it.” Yet, some farsighted observers are willing to articulate an upside Read More ›
When the clock turns midnight on Dec. 31, 1999, and millions of unrepaired computer applications show the year moving from ’99 to ’00 and then break down in confusion, in the United States there will be many millions more that have been repaired, tested and proven “Year 2000 compliant.” But what about overseas? Asked what his government was doing about Read More ›
From airport traffic control to tax refunds, from “just-in-time” package deliveries to time-sensitive hospital equipment; from fire and police services to defense commands, products and activities we take for granted could slow or stop. That’s the Year 2000 problem scenario, a disquieting possibility that is nagging increasing numbers of public and private leaders. In a year and a half, as Read More ›