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Frontline on climate change denial
A climate-change-denial think tank's unsolicited mailing to science teachers was the topic of a story from Frontline (March 28, 2017).
Categories: Pro-Science News
Antiscience bills progress in Florida
The two bills aimed at empowering taxpayers to object to the use of specific instructional materials in the public schools — whose supporters have evolution and climate change in their sights — progressed in the Florida legislature.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Eye Evolution: A Closer Look
In a previous article I described how theories of innovation provide insight into the limits of natural selection.
Brian Miller
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Son Realizes the Irrepressible Truth
I had just witnessed in action what Douglas Axe describes in his book Undeniable as the design intuition.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
With Fresh Funding, ENCODE Team Continues Demolition of "Junk DNA" Myth
NIH just funded five centers to explore what the "dark matter genome" (the non-protein-coding part) is doing.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Happy Darwin Day! German Natural History Museum Is Our 2017 Censor of the Year
The often-heard assertion that a scientific "consensus" exists in favor of orthodox Darwinian theory is true only on the surface.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
With Darwin Day Coming Tomorrow, Here's Tom Bethell on Darwin's Deception
Many pastors, priests, and rabbis, have been captivated by the idea that they can have their cake and eat it too.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Revolutionary" Michael Behe Tours Florida
At the University of South Florida, the discussion period was "fantastic," and the time allotted had to be extended.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Truth about Soviet Science and Darwinian Evolution Isn't as Darwinists Would Like Us to Believe
As often happens, Darwinists have things exactly upside-down.
Jonathan Wells
http://www.discovery.org/p/41
Categories: Anti-Science News
German Paleontologist Günter Bechly Joins the Center for Science & Culture as a New Senior Fellow
A dismissive attitude to intelligent design cannot survive a sustained encounter with the best science and scholarship from the ID community.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is There a Limit to the Number of a Designer's Creative Acts?
"A Whiter Shade" is, in a real sense, a descendant of Bach's BWV 156, similar to an untold number of other songs that have borrowed from Bach.
Walter Myers III
Categories: Anti-Science News
In the Public Interest? ProPublica Misrepresents Intelligent Design and Discovery Institute Policy
Critical analysis does not entail any discussion of religion.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
With Darwin Day Approaching, It's Time for a Look Back at Evolution and American History
Darwin Day is coming up -- February 12, aka Academic Freedom Day. Yes, that means we'll be introducing you to a new Censor of the Year.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Mouse and Human Embryo Development, Critical Transition Points Beyond Neo-Darwinism
On ID the Future, CSC Senior Fellow Ann Gauger discusses a recent paper in the journal Cell.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Incremental Versus Radical Innovation: A Response to Josh Swamidass on Evolution and Cancer
Dr. Swamidass is an Assistant Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University, and a frequent critic of intelligent design.
Brian Miller
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Curious Romance of Darwinism and Creationism -- And Why Intelligent Design Must Be Silenced
In his new book, Tom Bethell cites a telling lecture by origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Journalist Tom Bethell Puts to Rest the "I'm Not a Scientist" Dodge
My wife was complaining to me today that I don't podcast enough. Hah! Here's a new episode of ID the Future.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact Check: No, the Texas Board of Education Has Not Authorized "Creationism" in Its Science Standards
The Texas Board of Education met this past week to discuss the streamlining of its science standards, greeted by much news attention.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Opening for Academic Freedom in Texas, as Representative Swanson Files a Bill
This legislation, if passed, would protect teachers who wish to discuss the "scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories."
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
March for Science Gets "Hijacked" by Partisanship
If science ever becomes conflated in the public mind with left-wing advocacy, it will profoundly harm that crucial sector.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
