Showing posts with label Discovery Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discovery Institute. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2018

The Slander of “Darwinism”

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Kenneth Miller has written yet another extraordinary essay , this one on the nature of the term “Darwinism” and how it is pejoratively used ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

New Post by Dennis Venema on Biological Information

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Dennis Venema has a new post on the testing of an hypothesis by supporters of ID: In previous posts in this series, we’ve explored the cl...
Monday, December 26, 2016

David Coppedge, Redux

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David Klinghoffer has a post for "Evolution, News and Views" in which he defends David Coppedge, the erstwhile NASA technician wh...
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Sunday, March 06, 2016

Klinghoffer Responds to the Retraction

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David Klinghoffer followed up his initial post about the grasping hand paper with a post involving its inevitable retraction.  Called Censor...
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Saturday, March 05, 2016

That Didn't Take Long...

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Sure enough, the Discovery Institute's David Klinghoffer has penned a response to the ruckus involving the retracted paper in PLoS ONE a...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Update: Mississippi Bill Dies in Committee

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NCSE is reporting that HB 50, the Mississippi “Academic Freedom” bill proposed by Mark Formby has died in committee . Mississippi's Ho...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Discovery Institute Weighs in on the Mississippi Academic Freedom Bill

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On the website Evolution News and Views, Sarah Chaffee of the Discovery Institute attempts to distance the position of the DI from that of y...
Friday, December 18, 2015

The Case of Eric Metaxas or "Evolutionary Theory as Bug Zapper."

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Eric Metaxas is, by all accounts, a very dynamic and charismatic speaker, who has written a very highly regarded book called Seven Men: And ...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

The Discovery Institute Reports on Why College Students Leave the Faith and Fails To Ask the Important Questions

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According to a story in the Religion News Service, more people are turning away from the faith because of their belief that science and reli...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Human Evolution = Apartheid?

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About seven years ago, a Texas county official by the name of John Wiley Price made unwanted national news when he referred to the astronomi...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Casey Luskin on Homo naledi

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Casey Luskin has written a piece for Evolution, News and Views, in which he examines the hype surrounding the new Homo naledi find.  It wo...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

York Daily Record: Ten Years Since Kitzmiller

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The York Daily Record has an issue on the ten year anniversary of the Kitzmiller decision that devastated the intelligent design movement. ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

What Would Happen If the Discovery Institute Started Enabling Comments?

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Ann Gauger, writing for Evolution, News and Views, has a particularly vacuous post on What If People Stopped Believing in Darwin? For exam...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Trouble in Massachusetts

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Nestled in the small town of Holyoke, Mass. is a controversy over the proper role of scientific debate.  Mike Plaisance of MassLive (a congl...
Friday, March 06, 2015

Ars Technica Pulls The Mask Off the "Teach the Controversy" Bills

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I have written this many times in this blog: the “Teach the Controversy” legislation being promoted in different statehouses across the coun...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

New Indiana Bill 562

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In the Lafayette (or “laughalot” as one of my friends who went to Purdue once called it) Journal and Courier, we learn that state senator J...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Karl Giberson: 2014 Revenge of the Creationists

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Karl Giberson has written a post for the Daily Beast called “ Revenge of the Creationists ,” in which he outlines all of the recent developm...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Science & Human Origins Conference in Idaho on September 20

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  According to the new Discovery Institute Website, there is a Science & Human Origins day-long conference at the Ray and Joan Kroc...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Discovery Institute Promoting New Book: Counting to God

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The Discovery Institute is pushing a new book called Counting To God: A Personal Journey Through Science to Belief , a new attempt, by Doug...
Friday, May 02, 2014

The Discovery Institute Strikes Again

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We don't even have to play “Guess that party!” do we? This time it is Mike Fair, R-Greenville, South Carolina, using the DI template .  ...