Alex Harris and Brett Harris are challenging the status quo with: Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, garnering a Foreward by Chuck Norris, 2008, Multnomah Books ISBN-10: 1601421125. What might the prospects be for a hard cover manifesto challenging teenagers to work hard by two 18 year olds? Astonishingly it […]
At the Beyond Expelled worldview conference, Nancy Pearcey explored the impact of evolution vs ID. She describes skeptic Michael Shermer’s conversion to evolution & Scarlett Johansson’s acting on belief in evolution.
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The intelligent design of life
Nancy Pearcey tells crowd that Darwinism has evolved into more than just a theory (with VIDEO)
Rachel Kyler, Thursday May 8th, 2008
NICEVILLE […]
Judge Jones (the former liquor control board director famous for his involvement with Frog Beer) ruled in 2005 that it was unconstitutional for teachers in the Dover school district to question Darwinism. Jones viewed himself as the person who would settle the question of Darwinism for all time an eternity. He even went […]
A star of Expelled, biologist Caroline Crocker, will be making an appearance at:
McLean Bible Church
8925 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, Virginia
12:30 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2008
I hope to meet some of you at Dr. Crocker’s talk!
Caroline Crocker is the Executive Director of the IDEA Center, an organization devoted to supporting pro-ID students and faculty at universities, high schools, and […]
[Note: This article is an excerpt of what was originally published on Evolution News and Views as a 3-part series, linked as follows: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. For the full article, see http://www.discovery.org/a/4689.]
Scientific American has a long history of opposing intelligent design (ID), so it comes as no surprise that they have tasked […]
Today’s front page story (above the fold) in the Waco Tribune refers to the recent rash of tenure denials at Baylor as a “massacre.” For today’s story and other press on it, go to the following links:
* “Faculty ‘Massacre’” story in Waco Trib [4.3.08]
* Chronicle of Higher Education [4.2.08]
* Denyse O’Leary’s Analysis at UncommonDescent [3.31.08]
* […]
Rich Akin, CPA and CEO of Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity (PSSI), has reported to its membership the completion of a successful five-city educational event, titled What Darwin Didn’t Know, in Spain this past January.
A week prior to the first event the national newspaper El País published a full page article that portrayed […]
In my neighborhood in Southern California, a high school student has filed suit against a history professor who openly and consistently disparages Christianity in the classroom. Note that this teacher is “faculty adviser to the Free Thinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship student club.”
Question #1: Why is no discussion of scientific challenges to Darwinism permitted in […]
I’m pleased to announce the IDEA Center’s new Executive Director has just rolled out her own website:
IntellectualHonesty.info
I met with Dr. Crocker recently at a screening of the movie Expelled. She will be featured prominently in the movie!
The Darwinists have framed the ID debate as being about what should and […]
Could Florida’s Darwinian regulations be “evolving” from “fact” to free inquiry? In More on the vote on evolution and Florida’s new science standards Leslie Postal reports that teaching Evolution in schools is now mandated, but officially as the “scientific theory of” Evolution.
Will students now be able to seriously study evolution as “a scientific […]
A thoughtful article by a perceptive engineer. A good example of priming the Origins Debate pump.
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Let’s open minds, textbooks to intelligent design theories
Intricacies of Earth life-forms, microscopes challenge evolution ideas
Gordon Rose, Letter, Indianapolis Star Dec. 15, 2007
“In our school systems today, science, with its dramatic and continual advancement in knowledge, has to be one of […]
Friday Five: William A. Dembski
by Devon Williams, associate editor, CitizenLink.org
‘Are there patterns in biological systems that would point us to intelligence?’
Leading scientist and mathematician William A. Dembski has devoted years to researching intelligent design.
He is a research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has been featured on the front page of […]
Chris Comer’s firing was briefly discussed on this blog here. Today the Dallas Morning News had a front page (above the fold) about her case (go here). Below is the offending email that got her fired. As you read it, keep in mind that The Center for Inquiry is a virulently atheistic organization (see here […]
* Can or should the State of Texas remain neutral on origin theories?
* Can politicians enforce such a principle?
* Would remaining neutral violate the First Amendment?
Consider the following recent events that offer a remarkable contrast to the case of denying tenure to astronomer Gonzalez:
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State science curriculum director resigns
Move comes months before comprehensive curriculum review.Click-2-Listen
By Laura […]