Salvo magazine’s latest issue is out just this week and it’s almost entirely focused on ID. James Kushiner, publisher of Touchstone Magazine, opens the issue by asking, Are these really the last days of Darwin? and suggesting that readers let the evidence speak and then decide for themselves. The magazine has a number of excellent articles pertaining to all the different aspects of the debate over intelligent design, penned by a veritable who’s who of intelligent design scientists and scholars, including: Michael Behe, John Bloom, Raymond Bohlin, Larry Caldwell, Seth Cooper, Caroline Crocker, William Dembski, Michael Egnor, Logan Paul Gage, Guillermo Gonzalez, Phillip Johnson, Casey Luskin, Angus Menuge, Stephen Meyer, Paul Nelson, Denyse O’Leary, Jay Richards, Ralph Seelke, Geoffrey Simmons, Read More ›

CSC senior fellow John West will be speaking at a number of events in conjunction with Darwin Day. Wednesday, February 6, 20084:30-6:00 pm at Discovery Institute, Seattle If you are in Seattle you can hear Dr. West at the taping or our annual ID The Future Darwin Day Event, Proselytizing for Darwin’s God in the Classroom. If you can’t attend the taping, be sure to tune on Tuesday Feb. 12 and watch the event at www.idthefuture.com. More info here. If you are in Washington DC there will be two chances to see Dr. West. February 8, 2008, NoonGod, Science and the Presidential Campaign of 2008 A public lecture by Dr. John West, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, and author of Darwin Read More ›

Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey has a short review of John West’s Darwin Day in America in today’s paper. John G. West, who disbelieves in Darwinism, has written a book on its bad cultural consequences, from eugenics to permissive sex education. West’s opponents will not read it, because he is a fellow of the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank that has championed Intelligent Design. And that is too bad, because even those who believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, as I do, can concede that some things done in its name have been less than pleasing. Though himself a Darwinist, Ramsey clearly understands the value of civil debate and free and open inquiry. He concludes: West offers a Read More ›

WHAT:Stanford University will play host to a debate entitled Atheism vs. Theism & the Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design. This debate is being organized by student groups at Stanford: IDEA Club at Stanford,The Stanford Review and Vox Clara: A Journal of Christian Thought at Stanford. WHO:Chirstopher Hitchens vs. Jay RichardsChristopher Hitchens — Contributing editor to Vanity Fair; visiting professor, New School in New York; author of God is Not Great. VS.Jay W. Richards — Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute; co-author, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.Hosted by Ben Stein — Journalist, author and actor in the soon-to-be released movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Read More ›