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In an op-ed in the March 29 Los Angeles Times Michael Shermer claims that after a recent debate with him at Westminster College I admitted that “suboptimal designs and deadly disease are not examples of an unintelligent or malevolent designer, but instead were caused by “the Fall” in the “Garden of Eden.” Michael Shermer is misrepresenting my position and putting Read More ›

This transcript is from an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith on The Rush Limbaugh Show: Direct Transcript From the March 29, 2005 Rush Limbaugh radio program: RUSH: I went ahead and printed out this piece by Wesley Smith at National Review Online. He is a senior fellow, which means he’s a scholar like me, at an Institute. Read More ›

My debate about Terri Schiavo’s case with Florida bioethicist Bill Allen on Court TV Online eventually got down to the nitty-gritty: Wesley Smith: Bill, do you think Terri is a person? Bill Allen: No, I do not. I think having awareness is an essential criterion for personhood. Even minimal awareness would support some criterion of personhood, but I don’t think Read More ›

This article, published by Texas A&M University, is about an award received by Discovery Institute’s William Dembski:

As recipients of Texas A&M’’s 2005 Trotter Prize, Dr. William Dembski, an associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University, and Dr. Stuart Kauffman, director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary, will address the origin of life in a public lecture Monday (April 4) at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in the Rudder Exhibit Hall.

At age 15, I’ve already found my calling: information rights activist. No, not your right to information but the natural rights of information, particularly against cruel and unusual punishment. I say this because a lot of Social Security advocates seem to be manipulating statistics and torturing facts to suit their preferences. I am part of the generation most affected by Read More ›

From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, by Richard Weikart (Palgrave Macmillan, 324 pp., $59.95) It is an open question whether civilization will survive Darwinism, whose inspiration for Nazism, militarism, racism, wars of extermination, eugenics, abortion, and euthanasia is amply documented in Richard Weikart’s excellent new book. In precise and careful detail Weikart narrates an indispensable Read More ›

During Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s trip through Asia last week, the North Korean nuclear threat was the major topic of discussion, particularly in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo. In the months preceding the trip, North Korea had raised the stakes in the increasingly tense standoff by officially declaring that it indeed possessed nuclear weapons. In response, Rice put forth the Read More ›

Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith, author of the award winning book Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America call upon the Florida Courts and Governor Jeb Bush to take any legal action available to let Terri Schiavo live. “A profound injustice is being inflicted on Terri Schiavo,” Nader and Smith Read More ›

Harvest Terri Schiavo’s Organs? Where does the slippery slope end? This excerpt from a debate on Court TV between Florida bioethicist Bill Allen and Discovery Institute senior fellow (and author of “Culture of Death,”) Wesley J. Smith is telling—and chilling. Personhood Theory: Why Contemporary Mainstream Bioethics is Dangerous. Wesley Smith: “I participated in an on-line debate for Court TV yesterday Read More ›