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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I Could Write a Typical Newspaper Columnist's Views on Science and Religion in My Sleep
Michael Gerson is a Washington Post op-ed contributor with a sensible moderate conservative perspective. He's a smart guy, a good writer, an Evangelical Christian.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
At the New York Times, a War on Human Exceptionalism
This week, the Sunday magazine praises Steven Wise, head of the NonHuman Rights Project, who wants animals declared "persons" so that they can sue their owners.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Lynn Margulis: Evolutionist and Critic of Neo-Darwinism
"Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism...I believed it until I looked for evidence."
Stephen C. Meyer
http://www.signatureinthecell.com
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design or Evolutionary Creation: A Forum on Origins at Seattle's University Presbyterian Church
Join us for an exchange of views among CSC's Stephen Meyer, and Patrick McDonald and Benjamin McFarland, respectively professors of philosophy and biochemistry at Seattle Pacific University.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Scientists-Versus-Scientific-Spokesmen Divide
On evolution, the public is more in line with scientific skepticism than Darwin's defenders would give you to understand.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
You Can Now Watch the Meyer-Giberson Debate on YouTube
I've just watched it myself, and it matches my expectations based on what I had read.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
War on Humans Is Named Official Selection for the Life Fest 2014 Film Festival; See It in Los Angeles, May 10
Wow, congratulations to the team from Discovery Institute, especially John West and Wesley Smith!
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Black Mountain Project's Ironic "Uncivilization"
My new ebook, The War on Humans, documents the decline of the environmental movement toward a utopian and explicit anti-human ideology.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Debater's Tail: Giberson Shares His Take on the Confrontation with Stephen Meyer
As a proof of Darwinian evolution, Karl Giberson is very stuck on the curious phenomenon of babies born with what looks like a little tail.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
No, Dogs Are Not "Like Children"
The pressure to elevate animals to our status -- which would be to actually reduce us to theirs -- continues to grow.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Good News for the Procrastinators: Summer Seminar Application Deadline Extended Until April 30
I have sympathy -- and good news -- for students who have been wanting to apply to Discovery Institute's Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design but have been too busy to do so.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Flight from the Absolute: A Heavyweight Look at the Negative Impact of Modern and Postmodern Philosophies
At Discovery Institute, we are often sent unsolicited books by authors, and I must confess that we don't necessarily have time to review them all.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design's Utility Is Highlighted in a New Volume, Engineering and the Ultimate
Lead editor Jonathan Bartlett opens the volume by pointing out that the U.S. has been heavily influenced by the pragmatic philosophy of William James.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Story Time: Psychologists Show How to "Suppress" Children's Intuition of Design in Nature
The defense of Darwinism already centered on an avoidance strategy, dodging a direct confrontation with genuinely challenging critiques. That wasn't good enough.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Keep Calm and Doubt Darwin"
I couldn't immediately place this when I saw it on Facebook from Stephen Meyer.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Global Warming Hysterics' War on the Destitute
"De-growth," Draconian Malthusianism, humans depicted as "maggots" or "cancer" on the Earth -- that's what I call a "war on humans."
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Monday at Missouri State University, Nelson Will Debate Shermer on the Rationality of Design Reasoning
Is it irrational to infer that the arrangement of stones at Stonehenge reflects purposeful design when we admittedly cannot say exactly by what means the stones came together as they are?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Latest BIO-Complexity Paper Finds that on Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe Has Not Been Refuted
"Behe's concept of irreducible complexity has not been falsified by computer models."
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Science and Design: Notes from the Westminster Conference
This year's event featured Discovery Institute fellows Michael Behe, William Dembski, Douglas Axe, John West and others, including Vern Poythress from Westminster Theological Seminary.
Donald McLaughlin
http://www.discovery.org/p/611
Categories: Anti-Science News
Flailing Blindly: The Pseudoscience of Josh Rosenau and Carl Zimmer
I did not watch the sixth episode of Cosmos on April 13, but I'm told that it included animations to illustrate the molecular workings of a chloroplast.
Jonathan Wells
http://www.discovery.org/p/41
Categories: Anti-Science News
