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Intelligent Design, Unintelligent Me
I was one of those blissfully nerdy kids who fell in love with dinosaurs in the fourth grade and never outgrew it. In adulthood, people like me go to natural history museums, see Steven Spielberg movies and read the essays of the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. That is usually enough to keep us happy. But a couple of weeks Read More ›
Lawsuit Lollapalooza
Original article EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS–The Madison County Courthouse is an imposing structure: a full block long, four stories high, a marble edifice built in 1921 as a symbol of the era when Madison was the most industrialized county in Illinois. Today the county seat, Edwardsville, is home to only 21,000 people, and the surrounding county has been through a wrenching de-industrialization. Read More ›
Rescue Science from Evolutionists
Original Article Those who think the “Intelligent Design” advocates are a bunch of religious whackos show that they have simply not looked into the issues being raised before the Kansas Board of Education. Regarding evolution, there is much that classical evolutionary theory answers well, and much that it does not answer well. Evolutionary theory proposes that there are two fundamental Read More ›
Curiosity Won’t Kill Science Classes
Original Article Volume 19 | Issue 6 | 6 | Mar. 28, 2005 Editorial | I’m concerned about the state of science teaching. Over the past few months, three quite separate accounts have made me nervous. The first was an opinion published last month in The Harvard Crimson, the university daily, in which student Irene Y. Sun detailed her wretched Read More ›
Pacific Justice Institute Joins Battle for Quality Science Education
Original Article Roseville, CA Pacific Justice Institute has joined a federal lawsuit filed by a local parent who has endured intense opposition and unlawful tactics from school officials after he proposed a more objective policy for teaching evolution in the classroom. In an effort to restore balance and scientific soundness to science education, Larry Caldwell acted on his right Read More ›
Welcome to the Brave New Jersey
This article, published by, the New Jersey Star Ledger, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith:
Read More ›However, the other day I came upon some aspects of the research that frightened even me. Wesley J. Smith is the author of a book titled “A Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World.” He’s a lawyer and sometime Ralph Nader collaborator who is skeptical about just where the biotech industry is leading us with its incessant call for infinitely more spending on the research.