This article, published by PR Web, mentions Discovery Institute: In July 2000, the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank, published an extensive report on homeschooling written by Senior Fellow Dr. Patricia Lines. She describes several controlled studies comparing the social skills of homeschoolers and non-homeschoolers. The rest of the article can be found here.
This special volume of Michigan State University’s Rhetoric & Public Affairs is devoted to exploring the debate over intelligent design. Proponents of teaching intelligent design include Discovery Fellow and University of Memphis professor John Angus Campbell and University of Pittsburg professor John Lyne who contend that design is useful for teaching students reasoning skills by, as Lyne puts it, “taking Read More ›
Original Article Created: 19.05.2006 11:10 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:10 MSK Moscow– Around 100 protesters representing a Russian Orthodox movement Thursday burned a poster advertising the The Da Vinci Code at Pushkin Square in central Moscow, on the day of the controversial films premier, RIA Novosti news agency reports. Protesters at the meeting, organized by the Union of Orthodox Citizens, Read More ›
In 2001, PBS aired a 7-part series entitled Evolution. Essentially produced and entirely funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, Evolution was produced at a cost of up to $20 million. The series was entirely pro-evolution and did not offer a single interview with a scientist who dissented from evolution. Biola Professor John Mark Reynolds commented about Evolution stating, “It is Read More ›
Original Article As one who used to prosecute defendants, I have always believed in the careful use of government power. In my old position, the one Norm Maleng occupies now, this is called the wise use of prosecutorial discretion. This is an election year for appellate judges, and time to ask if candidates for those state offices will follow analogous Read More ›
The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another’s welfare, is a common human characteristic, and has been discussed by everyone from theologians to biologists. This volume brings together renowned researchers from various disciplines to examine the evolutionary, neurological, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, and religious aspects of altruistic behavior. Altruism is most famously recognized as occurring within a biological family, Read More ›
Agents Under Fire defends a robust notion of intelligent agency and intentionality against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives. Working with a Discovery Institute research grant, philosopher Angus Menuge tries to rescue the traditional conception of selfhood from the attacks of Darwinian psychologists. Following the reductionist logic of Darwinism, evolutionary psychologists attempt to portray the mind as a collection of isolated genes Read More ›
Congratulations to author/philosopher George Weigel, a senior fellow and former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and an adjunct fellow of Discovery Institute, who has just been accorded the highest award given by the government of Poland. On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented Weigel with the Read More ›
WIER HARMON: Good evening everybody. My name is Wier Harmon; Im the Executive Director of Town Hall Seattle, and Im awfully glad youre here to join us for tonights conversation. If youre still if looking for seats, there are a few stray singles scattered throughout the center section. And then there are two and three seats available together on the Read More ›
This article, published by the North Country Gazette, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Award winning author Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, notes that “the treatment is apparently being removed because it works, not because it doesn’t—which Read More ›