SEATTLE– While conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin’s theory, many on the right, such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart, have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. As Discovery Institute’s John West explains in his new book, Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest (Discovery Institute Press, 2006), their attempts to reconcile conservatism and Darwinian biology misunderstand Read More ›
Title: Are We Defining A Brave New Future Where All Human Life Is Not Protected? Click here to listen. Are we headed for a brave new world where unconscious people are treated as if they were simply biological machines? Wesley warns that we maybe headed down that path, even though today most people believe that treating people as mere things Read More ›
Oakland — Brave New Bioethics is a new podcast reported by Discovery Institute senior fellow and nationally acclaimed bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. Listeners can tune into the first episode on Tuesday, November 14 at the podcast homepage http://bravenewbioethics.podomatic.com. In each episode Smith will explore the many policies and proposals in bioethics, bioscience, and animal liberation that threaten the idea of Read More ›
This article, published by Investor’s Business Daily, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: “A story that doesn’t validate the stem cell mantra that embryonic stem cells offer the ‘best hope’ for future cures isn’t worth much attention,” writes leading bioethics critic Wesley Smith in the Weekly Standard. The rest of the article can be found here.
In the Jewish community, a curious feature of the controversy about Darwin and intelligent design is the funny way it has of making strange bedfellows. You might expect to find all religious conservatives lining up against Darwinism. Not so. Darwinian theory asserts that an unguided and purely material process alone (natural selection) was sufficient to produce the whole history of Read More ›
What they found out is, not very far. I had to learn this lesson myself, I regret, as I’ve dealt with the evolution issue in the past couple of years. When the MSM have an agenda, you either agree to validate it or you stay away from them. They are not going to let you represent your own views responsibly. Read More ›
If a politician does not vote to extend or make permanent the 2003 Bush tax cuts that are now set to expire at the end of 2010, is he or she voting for a tax increase? Most Republicans will say “yes” and most Democrats will say “no.” When it comes to tax increases, all too many Democrats, sounding like Bill Read More ›
The meaning of evangelical leader Ted Haggard’s downfall needs to be well understood by religious conservatives, lest the tragedy be compounded. The pain that has befallen the man — now resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals — along with his family and church is the consequence of his poor decisions. What would be worse than his personal destruction, however, Read More ›
Charges and countercharges swirl in the campaigns for election to judicial office in Washington state, particularly the closely watched campaign for Position 2 on the Washington Supreme Court. When phrases such as judicial activism, justice for sale, legislating from the bench and destroying judicial independence are being tossed about, it’s hard for the average voter to know what is appropriate Read More ›
John Derbyshire, the popular writer for National Review Online , recently published a “self-interview” disclosing how and why he lost his faith . Generally, I would not comment on such a personal matter or criticize anyone’s internal struggles. But Derbyshire went further than just to reject his former Christianity. He also attacked the crucial notion that human beings have a Read More ›