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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High Tech, Low Life -- The Amazing Flagellum
Compare the flagellum with top Olympic swimmers, with a goldfish, and a sailfish.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Medical Martyrdom in Switzerland
A Christian nursing home is threatened with the loss of charitable tax status if administrators refuse to permit assisted suicide.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Comparing Drones and Swifts, Swifts Win, Hands Down
"Their performance is ridiculous compared with these birds," a Swedish scientist told a reporter.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Burj Khalifa -- A Big Example of Biomimetics
For the world's tallest skyscraper, the inspiration from a desert flower was not merely aesthetic or ornamental.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact-Check: Louisiana's Science Education Act Does NOT Authorize Teaching Creationism
Vox repeats the mistake of many media sources, mischaracterizing an academic freedom law as authorizing instructors to teach creationism.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
On the Origin of Brains
Evolve brains in the Cambrian explosion? Just assume they come in with a bang. Somehow.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Artificial Eggs Used to Make Living Animals
New technologies could have a huge impact on perceptions of what it means to be human.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
You've Come a Long Way, Behe
Critiques and challenges to Darwin's Black Box are in the yard waste bin of biology.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Research Finds Two Trillion Galaxies
Not one of these myriad galaxies would exist without fantastically precise cosmological fine-tuning.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Critics
Some reviewers of Darwin's Black Box raised philosophical objections. I will discuss several of these.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Open Letter to Dr. Hossenfelder's Mother
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder neatly dismisses media hype about a "multiverse."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwinism and "Astroturf"
Here's a helpful concept from investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is the Human Form Riddled with Bad Design?
Even most atheist biologists grant that living things, including human beings, appear intelligently designed.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Do New Ediacaran Fossils Muffle the Cambrian Explosion?
Geologists found Ediacaran fossils in Nevada and studied the classic strata in Australia more carefully.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwinists and the Fossil Record: Missing a Few Marbles
Neo-Darwinism leads us to expect more than just change over time in the fossil record.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Behe -- Personal Portrait of a Revolutionary
In a short feature, the insurgent ID advocate describes his childhood and family and religious background.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Capuchin Monkey Throws Wrench into Human Evolution Story
The New York Times was quick to minimize the significance of the discovery.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Tom Wolfe and the "Kudzu" of "Settled Science"
Writing in Commentary, Andrew Ferguson offers a fantastic review of Wolfe's takedown of Darwin.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
New York Times Pushes Suicide by Starvation
Geriatric depression is a terrible problem in our society.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
