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NASA on Trial: Persecution of David Coppedge Was a Preview of Creeping Totalitarianism
The point is to shut down discussion and intimidate dissenters without admitting that that is what you are doing.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Flash of Insight About Physics, Reality, and DNA Launched Bruce Buff as a Novelist
It's a remarkable and telling thing about human creativity that ideas come to us so often not through a step-by-step process but in an instant.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
For the Love of Humpback Whales
Here are some new findings about humpback whales, those gentle giants of the living waters that everyone adores.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Robert Marks: What Computers Will Never Do
Many Artificial Intelligence researchers wrongly believe that intelligence arises from the application of algorithms.
Brendan Dixon
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Aimed at Convenience, Artificial Gestation Would Be Unethical Human Experimentation
Efforts continue to permit human gestation outside a woman's body.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fifty Years Later, Recalling Walt Disney and Scientism
Someone once quipped that Disney harbored "19th-century emotions in conflict with a 21st-century brain."
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
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John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Royal Society Meeting: What Evolutionists Say When They Think Nobody's Listening
The event vindicated a major and provocative claim in Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Dean Kenyon and Academic Freedom -- A Case in Point
Something is wrong when a university objects to any probing of the textbook view, on evolution or in any other field.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
NASA on Trial: David Coppedge Fell Victim to Anti-ID Zeal at America's Space Agency
A Team Lead on the Cassini mission to Saturn, Coppedge shared videos on intelligent design with colleagues. Workplace hysteria ensued.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why Do Monkeys Not Speak? Because They're Not Human
Once, anatomy was assumed to account for their surprising reticence. No longer.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Silicon-Based Life: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?
No living cell we know of produces carbon-silicon bonds, but scientists "evolved" a way to make cells produce them.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)
I have come to the conclusion that "the scientists" believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Daddy and Baby: Evolutionary Legends Die Hard
A colleague shares this gem from a get-together with friends.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Feathers on a Bird or Dinosaur Tail? The Media Are Certain; the Scientific Evidence Less So
A section of a 99-million-year-old feathered tail in a chunk of amber belongs to a juvenile dinosaur. Or does it?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
LSU Ophthalmologist Commends a "Design Approach" in Appraising Supposedly Vestigial Organs
Sometimes when our worldview is wrong, we miss important things.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Best of Behe: An Open Letter to Professors Kenneth Miller and PZ Myers
Everyone is looking forward to seeing your calculations. Please keep the rhetoric to a minimum.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
Post-Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell's Views Presaged Modern Arguments for Intelligent Design
One design inference Maxwell made in this period concerns his famous thought experiment, "Maxwell's demon."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Naval Academy Philosopher: Laypeople Are Entitled to an Opinion on Science Questions
The "participatory model" is a worthy complement to Doug Axe's "common science."
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact-Check: Austin, TX, Newspaper Bungles Description of Discovery Institute; Reporter Won't Correct Record
Austin American Statesman reporter Madlin Mekelburg could take a lesson in neutrality in reporting.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
