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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Biological Information, a Mile and a Half Beneath the Ocean Floor
Scientists sent a drill to the lowest depths under the sea ever reached, and found a surprise: living organisms.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Understanding Memories: Lovely Metaphors Belong in Songs, Not Science
I'm reminded of a phrase from one of my favorite songwriters, Paul Simon, in "The Boxer": "I've squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles."
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Bioethics, Infanticide Is Now "Debatable"
The late Richard John Neuhaus famously wrote this of bioethicists.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
My Top Five Science and Faith Christmas Gifts for 2015
Here are five resources on science and faith you might want to include in your gift-giving this month.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Newly Discovered Convergent Genetic Evolution Between Bird and Human Vocalization Poses a Severe Challenge to Common Ancestry
Everyone is familiar with the striking ability of certain birds (such as parrots) to vocalize speech, much as humans do.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Thinking Differently About Biology
Sentences that convey different ideas may have similar structures, but when we write a sentence we start with the idea, not the sentence structure.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Your Computer Doesn't Like You
Intelligence, as denoted in "artificial intelligence," corresponds roughly to what Aristotle meant by intellect and will.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Study Reveals DNA Organization in the Nucleus; Plus Highly Recommended Video
We knew the nucleus had to be organized into compartments with particular chromosomes taking up particular regions.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Massive Genetic Study Confirms Birds Arose in "Big Bang"-Type of "Explosion"
It's long been known that the Cambrian explosion isn't the only explosion of organisms in the fossil record.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
See It: Today at 5 PM Pacific, Stephen Meyer Meets the Platonic Ideal of an Interviewer
That would be Eric Metaxas, who combines illumination with much amusement.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Unintelligent Design," You Say? An Automotive Parable
The past five months, I've been trying to change the head gasket on a 2001 Chrysler PT.
Rob Sheldon
Categories: Anti-Science News
Your Computer Can't Remember a Darned Thing
For materialists, the metaphor of memory for computer storage of electronic representations has become metaphysics.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Christmas Comes Early: Today Only, Get Three Documentaries from Discovery Institute Bundled Together at 35 Percent Off!
The Biology of the Second Reich reveals the previously neglected ideological and scientific roots of World War I.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
That's Not Funny: Evolutionary Researchers Parody Evolution
"If you had heard an idea like this at an evolution meeting, it could have passed as something that was a bit kooky, but maybe not wrong."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Dear Atheist Santa... "
The Brights are feeling the holiday spirit.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
ABC News Says "'Darwin's Dilemma' May Be Solved": What, Again?
The common theme among each of these "solutions" to Darwin's dilemma is that none of them explain the origin of biological information.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
We Sure Are Lucky to Have Our Moon (Among Other Things)
Along with those we've already discussed in this series, further parameters must be added to the list of conditions for a life-supporting planet.
Daniel Bakken
Categories: Anti-Science News
For Just 24 Hours, You Can Get the Discovering Intelligent Design Textbook and Workbook at 45 and 30 Percent Off!
Developed by Casey Luskin and his co-authors, this comprehensive curriculum presents the biological and cosmological evidence in support of the scientific theory of intelligent design.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Time for Commercially Assisted Suicide?
Human logic goes where our first principles and fundamental premises take it.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
When Atheist Professors Evangelize, Freedom from Religion Foundation Is AWOL
Historian of science Emerson "Tom" McMullen at Georgia Southern University (GSU) is in hot water for criticizing Darwinian evolution in class.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
