Month: April 2014
No, Dogs Are Not "Like Children"
The pressure to elevate animals to our status — which would be to actually reduce us to theirs — continues to grow.
Good News for the Procrastinators: Summer Seminar Application Deadline Extended Until April 30
I have sympathy — and good news — for students who have been wanting to apply to Discovery Institute’s Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design but have been too busy to do so.
Flight from the Absolute: A Heavyweight Look at the Negative Impact of Modern and Postmodern Philosophies
At Discovery Institute, we are often sent unsolicited books by authors, and I must confess that we don’t necessarily have time to review them all.
Intelligent Design’s Utility Is Highlighted in a New Volume, Engineering and the Ultimate
Lead editor Jonathan Bartlett opens the volume by pointing out that the U.S. has been heavily influenced by the pragmatic philosophy of William James.
Story Time: Psychologists Show How to "Suppress" Children’s Intuition of Design in Nature
The defense of Darwinism already centered on an avoidance strategy, dodging a direct confrontation with genuinely challenging critiques. That wasn’t good enough.