Original Article Mississippi consumers got some good news over the New Year weekend. Ten months after AT&T first proposed the buyout of BellSouth, the state’s primary wire-line carrier, the merger received final regulatory approval. An old and proud brand but a new and improved company, the “2007” AT&T is a combination of baby bells (Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, Pacific Telesis, Southern Read More ›
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM DECEMBER 2006 ________________________________________________ INTOLERANCE AND THE POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE AT THE SMITHSONIAN SMITHSONIANÂ’S TOP OFFICIALS PERMIT THE DEMOTION AND HARASSMENT OF SCIENTIST SKEPTICAL OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION ________________________________________________ STAFF REPORT PREPARED FOR THE HON. MARK SOUDER CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DRUG POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES Click here to download the full Read More ›
Darwin Strikes Back by Thomas E. Woodward “In their attempt to return fire in the debate against Intelligent Design, the Darwinists are mostly shooting blanks. Tom Woodward does a masterful job of dissecting weak polemic and showing how the Darwinian establishment has resorted to proof by confident assertion, genetic fallacies, and ad hominem tactics rather than genuinely engaging the arguments Read More ›
Bio Science Views Commentaries Discovery Institute Bioethics Program Brave New Bioethics podcast featuring Wesley J. Smith Sample radio commentaries by Discovery senior fellow Wesley J. Smith BSV #1 1:16, 1.2MB BSV #2 1:12, 1.1MB BSV #3 1:16, 1.2MB BSV #4 1:10, 1.07MB BSV #5 1:12. 1.1MB BSV #6 1:18. 1.19MB To inquire about broadcasting Bio Science Views contact Robert Crowther Read More ›
The debate over evolution is usually framed by the media as a political fight of left versus right. But a small cadre of conservative commentators and scholars, such as George Will, Charles Krauthammer, John Derbyshire, and Larry Arnhart, have become defenders of Darwinism. Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest asks whether conservatives-traditionally known as the champions of personal responsibility, family values, Read More ›
Nearly 30 years ago physicist Steven Weinberg wrote that “[t]he more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” But is our universe really just a meaningless accident? A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, co-authored by Discovery Institute senior fellows Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt, makes the philosophical argument that the Read More ›
Original Article The France-based non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders recently released its Worldwide Press Freedom index, which ranks Russia as 147th on a list of 168 countries in terms of protecting journalists and media expression. Russia’s 147th ranking is five spots behind the Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of the bloodiest conflict in the world, and just a few Read More ›
This article, published by The Washington Post, mentions John Miller of Discovery Institute: Miller, who has headed the State Department’s anti-slavery office since 2002, also will serve as a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. His last day at the department will be Dec. 15. The rest of the article can be found here.
Original Article On Sept. 10, Norbert Bufka dealt with the controversy swirling around whether consideration of creationism and intelligent design should be permitted in public schools. Leading up to his negative conclusion on the issue, he made some misleading statements concerning the Bible. He alleged that the account of creation in the second chapter of Genesis is different from that Read More ›