Opportunities for Interstate Passenger Rail, a Snohomish County Focus
Bruce Agnew, Director, Cascadia Center, Discovery Institute Read More ›
Snohomish County’s Multimodal Transportation Vision
Steve Thomsen, Director of Public Works Read More ›
Icons of Evolution Documentary Trailer
Are students learning the whole truth about Darwin’s theory of evolution? According to a growing number of scientists, the surprising answer is no. They claim that many of the most famous “Icons of Evolution” — including Darwin’s “Tree of Life”, finches from the Galapagos Islands, and embryos that look remarkably similar — are based on outdated research and sloppy logic. Read More ›
On Track: Future of Rail in Snohomish County – Opening Remarks
Rep. Rick Larsen, Congressman 2nd District WA Read More ›
On Track: Future of Rail in Snohomish County – Opening Remarks
Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive Read More ›
The Next Middle East Wars
Despite some hopeful signs from the “Arab Spring,” the Middle East is, if anything, in graver danger than before. So what does this mean for U.S. foreign policy in the region? And how should the U.S. counter totalitarian and terror threats? Read More ›
High Tech Will Rebuild Our Economy
The restructuring of our economy is as significant as the recession. Tech writer George Gilder (Microcosm, Telecosm and, most recently, The Israel Test) will describe the way new technology can rescue the US, and the world, from the present slump. Some think the high tech revolution is exhausted; Gilder says, “Not so fast!”
A Scientific Critique of Francis Collins’ BioLogos
Jonathan Wells discusses the implications of DNA and genes on God and evolution, along the way addressing Francis Collins’ claims about junk DNA. He concludes, there are still parts of non-protein-coding DNA for which no specific function is known. Yet new functions are constantly being discovered, so any argument for Darwinian evolution that rest on “junk DNA” must constantly retreat Read More ›
Darwin’s Heretic Trailer
One of the most renowned biologists of the nineteenth century, Alfred Russel Wallace shares credit with Charles Darwin for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection. Yet one part of Wallace’s remarkable life and career has been completely ignored: His eventual embrace of intelligent design. Read More ›
The Myth of Junk DNA Trailer
http://discovery.org A number of leading proponents of Darwinian evolution claim that “junk DNA”—the non-protein-coding DNA that makes up more than 95% of our genome—provides decisive evidence for Darwin’s theory and against intelligent design, since an intelligent designer would not have littered our genome with so much garbage. Read More ›