Discovery Institute Evolution News & Views
Evolution News and Views (ENV) provides original reporting and analysis about the debate over intelligent design and evolution, including breaking news about scientific research, academic freedom cases, and educational policy issues. ENV also covers how the rest of the newsmedia report on the debate, offering analysis and corrections to major news stories, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how journalists and news outlets operate when they report on this issue.
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Day 2 at the Royal Society: A "Knee-Jerk" Jab at Intelligent Design, Applause for "Marginalized Ideas"
We could do without the applause. But how about letting advocates of "marginalized ideas" speak?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
More Reports from Confidential Informants at the Royal Society
ID sympathizers at the meeting "wonder whether we should all have some kind of signal...rub the left nostril twice perhaps?"
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Elephant in the Room: Douglas Axe Reports from the Royal Society
"Bigger issue...is that none of these additions enable the theory to explain how genuinely new things originate."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Horns of a Dilemma: Does Intelligent Design Do Too Little -- or Too Much?
There's no pleasing some people.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Robert Richards and Evolutionary Apologetics
That Darwinism has not coincidentally been put to evil ends would seem indisputable.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Tropical Birds Are Not More Colorful, Prompting Evolutionary Speculation
With evolutionary scholarship there's a bright red light where the data ends and the storytelling begins.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
How Consensus Can Blind Science
Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Breaking Bad -- Behe on How Evolution Really Works
When we hear Darwinian evolution invoked, it's typically to explain how complex contrivances are built.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
From an Unlikely Source, Praise for Richard Weikart and Hitler's Religion
Ron Capshaw chides fellow atheists, "normally rational," who "throw up their hands and seek a supernatural explanation for [Hitler]."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Irreducible Complexity and the Evolutionary Literature: A Response to Critics
Following the publication of Darwin's Black Box, web-savvy fans of natural selection set up extensive, sophisticated sites to dispute the book.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
So, You Thought Charles Darwin Discovered Natural Selection? Wrong
James Hutton, the father of modern geology, first propounded the idea.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Computers Should Not Be Granted Patents
In order to receive a patent, the subject of the protection must be a human invention.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Egg News PETA Doesn't Want You to Know
Animal rights activists -- as distinct from animal welfare -- want to end all domestication.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Road to the Royal Society: The Problems That Matter, the Problems That Don't
Like Sherlock Holmes's dog that did not bark in the night, the RS meeting is noteworthy for those speakers who were not invited.
Paul Nelson
http://www.discovery.org/p/45
Categories: Anti-Science News
On Texas Science Standards, a Breath of Fresh Air -- Accurate Reporting!
Zack Kopplin is a self-described "investigative journalist and activist" who specializes in slinging the scare word "creationist" around.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Take Two Aspirin and a Darwinian Just-So Story, and Call Me in the Morning
Discovery Institute biologists Jonathan Wells and Ray Bohlin discuss the curious topic of "Darwinian medicine."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Companion Website Tells the Rest of Intelligent Design's Revolutionary Story
You can start getting up to speed on the ID revolution now -- past, present, and future. And yes, the past matters.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Twenty Years of "Revolutionary" Machines: The Case of ATP Synthase
It's another rotary engine but smaller than the flagellum. And instead of powering bacteria, it powers you.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
This Science Educator Could Do with a Little More Science Education
Amanda Glaze seems like a personable, sympathetic, and intelligent woman who would make an excellent teacher.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Return of the Blind Watchmaker
Nature lets slip a comparison between what biochemical engineers make and what blind nature supposedly accomplished.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
