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The Truth About Discovery Institute’s Role in the Dover Intelligent Design and Evolution Trial
Although Discovery Institute believe teaching about intelligent design is constitutionally permissible, we think mandating intelligent design politicizes what should be a scientific debate and harms the efforts of scientists who support design to gain a fair hearing in the scientific community.
Dover Trial: Plaintiffs’ Counsel Implies Voet and Voet Biology Textbook is Unconstitutional
There’s also no denying Minnich’s data which shows that mutagenized flagella do not function properly. He claimed that mutagenesis (i.e. knockout) experiments on all the genes in the flagellum show that it is rendered nonfunctional. This tends to indicate that with respect to its genes, it is irreducibly complex.
The Unexamined Book Is Not Worth Reading
When asked if he had ever taken the time to fully read Of Pandas and People, the reference book on intelligent design available for students in the Dover library, Linker responded “no”–after all, he said, it was summer when he was asked to do so.
Berlinski’s “On The Origins of the Mind” lauded by American Scientist
American Scientist Online has posted a nice review of The Best American Science Writing 2005 (Edited by Alan Lightman, Harper Perennial) from the Nov-Dec issue of the magazine, which features CSC senior fellow David Berlinski’s article “On The Origins of the Mind.”
Bird Flu Argument Infects Darwinists
Salzberg also urges readers to “drop the artificial debate about evolution and intelligent design.” But he himself encourages just such an artificial debate, for no design theorist questions microevolution, the sort of change that produces new flu viruses.