Original Article Recently, the state of South Carolina joined Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kansas and New Mexico by approving statewide science standards which require a critical analysis of evolution in science classrooms. In these five states the standard-issue Darwinian evolution will still be taught, but with an interesting twist which ought to raise some eyebrows – the scientific WEAKNESSES of Darwinian theory Read More ›
Original Article Mississippians can be excused for some trepidation regarding AT&T’s planned takeover of BellSouth. The last telecom mega-merger involving Mississippi was the WorldCom buyout of Sprint in 1999. The regulatory denial of that deal was a prelude to the 2000-2002 bear market. Hardest bit by that ravenous bear was the telecom sector, which suffered the double whammy of flaky Read More ›
Original Article Dr. Ben Rich of the University of California, Davis, testifies in favor of an assisted suicide bill before the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute who opposes the bill, sits to Rich’s left. The bill’s co-author, Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, can be seen in the background. Sacramento Bee/Anne Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The following testimony was given by microbiologist Ralph Seelke, Ph.D., on June 7, 2006 before the Education Committee of the Michigan House of Representatives in favor of House Bill 5251. I have been asked to testify on behalf of HB5251, and I am happy to do so. Please note that my views are my own, and not those Read More ›
Feeling primitive? Unevolved? Inorganic? Then try a bowl of Primordial Soup! What’s Darwin Got To Do With It? is an illustrated friendly conversation about evolution and what science can explain about life. Aimed at younger students, this comic-book style work helps students understand if finch beaks really prove Darwinism is true or if the encoded message in DNA implies an Read More ›
In Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?, published by Discovery Institute Press, editor of the prestigious Italian biology journal Rivista di Biologia, Giuseppe Sermonti, explains why evolution resembles a “paradigm” more than it does an explanation. Scientists assume that the theory and its implications (such as universal common descent) are true, but no one can ever explain the details Read More ›
Discovery Institute Senior Fellows William Dembski and Jay Richards launch a scathing attack on naturalistic philosophy in this anthology aimed at a Christian audience, with various chapters explaining why naturalism is failing as a philosophical paradigm. Richards notes that naturalism as a philosophy is impossible to establish, for it relies upon proof of the negative claim that there is no Read More ›
This volume provides a summary of the widespread attack upon Darwinism by some of today’s leading intellectuals. While authors may vary widely in their religious outlook on life, they have one view in common: Darwinism is deficient to account for life as we know it. Senior Discovery Institute Fellow William Dembski opens with a lively recounting of how Darwinists have Read More ›
It makes no obvious difference to our salvation whether the geometry of our universe is Euclidian, whether quantum mechanics is the last word in atomic physics, or whether the Big Bang is the correct model for the development of the universe. These theories witness to the power of the human intellect, but few would claim that they bear on questions Read More ›
Vatican astronomer Father George Coyne said neither Yes nor No to answer our question whether life can spring spontaneously from matter. But he left us with a cryptic maybe with these words: If it happened at least twice, then it happened many times, (National Catholic Register, April 9-15). My response is that life is a special creation introduced into our Read More ›