Was Justice Denied to Foundation for Thought and Ethics during the Dover Intelligent Design Trial?

Was justice denied to Foundation for Thought and Ethics during the Kitzmiller intelligent design trial? Whether or not it was, do you think NOVA will relate this information in their Judgment Day program about the trial next week? Don’t count on it.Last year attorneys Seth Cooper and Leonard Brown published an article entitled, “A Textbook Case of Judicial Activism: How a Pro-ID Publisher Was Denied its Day in Court,” which describes how the publisher of the textbook Of Pandas and People, Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE), was denied the right to become a party to the Kitzmiller trial, despite the fact that its intellectual property rights were implicated in the lawsuit. Interestingly, FTE had completed manuscripts of a new Read More ›

NOVA Program on Intelligent Design Biased,
Not by Chance but Because They Designed It That Way

First they dramatized the O.J. Simpson trial. Then they acted out Michael Jackson’s courtroom drama. This time around we have NOVA reenacting parts of the 2005 Dover intelligent design trial presided over by Judge John E. Jones. As NOVA’s website points out, Paula Apsell, senior producer for NOVA’s propaganda piece on intelligent design, Judgment Day, felt “compelled” to make the docudrama. Journalists are usually only “compelled” to report on events by their editors, or by the newsiness (timeliness, proximity, impact, conflict, etc) of a specific issue/event. So, why were Apsell and NOVA compelled to make this program?

Dr. West’s Heritage Foundation Lecture Now Available

For those of you who missed Dr. John West‘s lecture at The Heritage Foundation this week in Washington, D.C., it is now available online (look for November 6, 2007). West had a strained voice that day, yet he spoke eloquently on “The Abolition of Man? How Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science.” In this lecture, he covers what he sees as five impacts of scientific materialism on public policy. If you like what you see, don’t forget to check out Darwin Day in America.

CSC Fellow Lecturing on ID at University of Buffalo and Daemen College

Today, CSC Fellow Paul Nelson will be speaking at the University of Buffalo and tomorrow at Daemen College on “Does the Complexity of Life Prove Intelligent Design?” The first lecture takes place at the University of Buffalo’s North Campus, in Cooke Hall, Room 121, on Thursday, November 8th at 8:00 pm. For directions click here. The lecture on Friday, November 9th is at 6:30 pm at Daemen College in the Wick Center Social Room. For directions to this location, click here.

Meet the Materialists, part 4: Cesare Lombroso and the New School of Criminal Anthropology

Note: This is one of a series of posts adapted from my new book, Darwin Day in America. You can find other posts in the series here. By the end of the nineteenth century, American scholars were already talking with excitement about the “new school of criminal anthropology” that sought to use modern science to identify the causes of crime. Leading the way was Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), whose book Criminal Man (1876) remains a landmark work in the field of criminology. Lombroso and his disciples contended that criminal behavior could be explained largely as a throwback to earlier stages of Darwinian evolution. According to Lombroso, infanticide, parricide, theft, cannibalism, kidnapping, theft and anti-social actions can all be found Read More ›