discovery institute

According to the Dallas Morning News, Christopher Hitchens debates William Dembski on 11/18 at a church hosted by a Christian school. The event will be streamed live here. Full: The Dallas Morning News From the Prestonwood's website:

In October 2009, American Freedom Alliance, a Christian non-profit, contacted the California Science Center Foundation to show a movie as a private party on the Foundation's property. The Foundation is part of the State of California and has ties to the Smithsonian Institution. To help carry out...

Howdy all, I returned this afternoon from listening to the Disco Institute's talk by Casey Luskin, titled "Intelligent Design: Dead Science or Future of Biology?" and below I have included the transcript of my notes - I apologize to the Mods in advance for the length, it was a long talk. It...

Eric Hovind, son of convicted creationist liar Kent Hovind, having dinner with Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Insitute. The intelligent design supporters can deny all they want that intelligent design isn't creationism, but its is quite clear, especially after Dover, that they are...

David Coppedge is suing the Jet Propulsion Laboratory claiming religious discrimination because of his support for intelligent design. The Discovery Institute has been busy issuing press releases ("Coppedge is suing JPL and Caltech for religious discrimination" and here, here, and here). So the...

This is an interesting turn of events for Don McLeroy, who is awaiting confirmation for another term on the Texas Board of Education: Full article: Austin America-Statesman More on Don McLeroy: Full: AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Discovery Institute Miffed by Vatican Snub So, the Vatican is essentially admitting that the Bible isn't really true? :popcorn1

Reportedly due to outcry: WCAX.com The funny thing is the Discovery Institute's spin: Source OK, Stein withdraws and the IDiots claim he was "expelled" and it was "unlikely... voluntary." Why do creationists see a conspiracy in everything? You made a bad documentary about an academic...

William Dembski mentions on his blog that he and engineer Robert J. Marks have "Two forthcoming peer-reviewed pro-ID articles in the math/eng literature." Is is really impressive to talk about "intelligent design" in engineering journals? I hope engineers design with intelligence. He then...

Richard Weikart, a historian of Germany at California State University, Stanislaus and Discovery Institute fellow, is releasing another book about Nazi Germany/Hitler and evolution. Weikart previously appeared in the movies Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and Darwin's Deadly Legacy as well as...

One of my favorite science bloggers, Dr. Steven Novella, is going toe-to-toe with one of the Disco Institute's Fellows, Dr. Michael Egnor, concerning neuroscience. In this latest blog entry, Egnor puts on display one of the new rhetorical tactics being used by creationists - calling evolution...

The Discovery Institute just posted Stephen Meyer's recommendations to the Texas Education Board. Meyer, a creationist and co-founder of the institute was selected, along with two other DI connected evolution critics, by the board to make recommendations on science with other three scientists...

As we all probably know, Louisiana recently passed an "academic freedom" law which would allow science teachers to "supplement" their curriculum with materials providing alternative views on biology (i.e. creationism). Of course, who was one of the major backers of said legislation? Our fine...

First, not exactly sure if this should be in Education or here in Current Events as it fits in both, but feel free to move if necessary. I was reading Wikinews this morning as I find it an easy way to get a quick summary of the goings on. I found this article...

Well it turns out the Discovery Institute has little mini-seminars open to the public. I couldn't resist so I emailed the DI and asked for a seat at an upcoming talk, Is Intelligent Design Bad Theology? They were excited a 'new member' might be interested and I was invited. Oh, it was fun...

I live out in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Usually this makes me pretty happy. Usually. Today, not so much. Occasionally I'm reminded that the Discovery Institute is actually headquartered in Seattle, and this disappoints me. But I suppose they have to be somewhere. I just wish that...

OK, heres the deal, I like to check the DI, and other related sites from time to time, just to see what they are up to. So, I go to their home page, and I see this listed - " Anti-Freedom Activists Try to Censor Science education in Florida" So, I click on the link (as I'm gonna ask you to...

...I think his upcoming movie "Expelled" will be nice to see through skeptical eyes. I would probably skip his “intelligent design” class to drive my friend's dad's Ferrari around the town. Thank you Brian for your recent podcast on the various types of creationism, and for the continued...

Last spring we had the honor….err..chance of having the Discovery Institute come to the university ( I am a grad student). The science faculty all attempted to get this moved off campus and were entreated to accusations of free-speech infringement (which seems to be the main theme in...

Randi pointed readers to Dawkins' review of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution. The Discovery Institute wasted no time and issued a press release attacking Dawkins on June 27, 2007 (Dawkins' article will be published July 1, 2007) claiming the article is "patchwork of fallacies devoid of...

In Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution (June 2007), he has some interesting citations that apear to be at the very least misleading. This is nothing new as Behe has been caught before altering quotes in his 1995 work Darwin's Black Box. Well, his most recent deceitful alternations were spotted...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will deliver a 45-minute speech organized by TechNet Northwest, and is being sponsored and promoted by the Discovery Institute. See this article for more detail or this thread about John McCain speaking before the DI. On a side note, the institute’s main...

Gonzalez denied tenure, Discovery Institute calls it "ideological discrimination" Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55667 (Keep in mind this is from the WorldNetDaily ran by Joseph Farah.) It's worth pointing out that "The Privileged Planet" was published by Regnery...

An itneresting article http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=3979&program=CSC%20-%20Views%20and%20News

The Dallas Morning News published an essay by three scince professors at Southern Methodist University were there is going to be a Discovery Institute conference on April 14th. I wasn't even really aware of this until a few days ago so I'll see what I can dig up elsewhere to flesh out the story...

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=271&program=Discovery%20Institute&isEvent=true McCain has been working overtime trying to enhance his evangelical connections.

http://www.re-discovery.org/index.html From their Mission page; " The reDiscovery Institute maintains a slick web page, and tirelessly promotes archaic religious dogma elegantly dressed in modern scientific terminology, to school boards, museums, theaters, juries, and editorial pages across...

Oh my GOD(s) I was wrong all the time.. look at all these scientists.

Was looking through the Loom today and saw something that might be of interest to other JREFers. After his article about evolution in National Geographic, the Discovery Institute seem a little unhappy with Carl Zimmer. Here's a link to the first part of a three part rebuttal of his article that...

In case you missed it (I had, until this morning), it appears the good guys won.