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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What Would the World Look Like if the New Atheists Won the Day?
On Christmas I had to run into the office briefly and discovered two new atheist books I'd ordered had arrived: Sean Faircloth's Attack of the Theocrats and Penn Jillette's God, No!.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
No, Copernicus Did Not Remove Us from the Hub of the Universe
The significance of the earth and humanity, or our insignificance, does not hinge on age or "central" location.
Jay W. Richards
http://www.discovery.org/p/9
Categories: Anti-Science News
Was Ben Stein "Expelled" by Kyocera and Ad Agency for His Views on Intelligent Design?
The company's message to him indicated that he was dropped for various unnamed policy positions they found him identified with on the Internet.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Washington Post Columnist Endorses Teaching the Evolution Controversy
"Introducing a contrary theory like intelligent design and having students discuss its differences from Darwinism would enliven the class. It would also teach the scientific method."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?
Shapiro is as dismissive of Darwinism as any ID proponent. On the other, he constantly gives public notice that he is not on the side of ID.
William A. Dembski
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwinist Smarty Catches Us
We've got another hot tip for him, too.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Blind Man Carrying a Legless Man Can Safely Cross the Street: Experimentally Confirming the Limits to Darwinian Evolution
Richard Lenski has acquired a challenger for the title of "Best Experimental Evolutionary Scientist."
Michael Behe
Categories: Anti-Science News
Audio Lectures from Science and Faith Conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville
I had the pleasure of participating in a conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville on December 2 and 3, entitled "Can Science Inform Our Understanding of God?"...
Jay W. Richards
http://www.discovery.org/p/9
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Media Passes Hasty Legal Judgment on 2 of 3 New Science Education Bills
Reporters should be reticent to fix the legally significant label "creationist" to nascent science education bills.
Joshua Youngkin
http://www.discovery.org/p/501
Categories: Anti-Science News
Rick Santorum, the Santorum Amendment and Intelligent Design
Most Americans support the Santorum Amendment's approach to teaching evolution. A backgrounder on Rick Santorum and Intelligent Design is now available....
Robert Crowther
http://www.discovery.org/p/215
Categories: Anti-Science News
On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Story
Endosymbiotic theory essentially maintains that mitochondria arose by virtue of a symbiotic union of prokaryote cells.
Jonathan M.
http://www.intelligentdesign.org
Categories: Anti-Science News
Happy Birthday, Dr. Hawking
John Lennox on Hawking and "Do the Laws of Physics Make God Unnecessary?"
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Digital Age Liberates Science
Science has protected its public trust through peer review, publication, and replication. The digital age is changing that.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Santorum on the Santorum Amendment
Extreme, you say? Sounds just about as mainstream as you can get.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Knock-Knock. Who's There? Carcharhinus tilstoni/C. limbatus Hybrid
An email correspondent of ours isn't showing enough respect for hybrid black-tip sharks as a meaningful illustration of "evolution" in action.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Beyond Hitler/Darwin: Evolutionary Moral Anarchism
At the website Credo, our colleague Richard Weikart is writing a clear-eyed series of articles about what happens to ethics when it's subjected to evolutionary thinking.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Hybrid Sharks: From the Annals of Overselling Evolution
"There, he moved!" "No, he didn't, that was you pushing the cage!"
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Center for Science & Culture Announces 2012 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design
The Center for Science & Culture at Discovery Institute announces two intensive 9-day seminars for college students during the summer of 2012....
Robert Crowther
http://www.discovery.org/p/215
Categories: Anti-Science News
Parallel Host and Parasite Phylogenies: Do They Imply Common Ancestry?
Consider this diagram -- or "tanglegram" -- representing the parallel phylogenies yielded by pocket gophers and their lice parasites.
Jonathan M.
http://www.intelligentdesign.org
Categories: Anti-Science News
Looks Like the Appendix Isn't a "Junk Body Part" After All
The myth of Junk Body Parts continues to take a pummeling from science much as its sister myth, that of Junk DNA, does.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
