How Does a Brain Surgeon Become a Darwin Skeptic?
On this episode of ID The Future Dr. Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, tells his story of how he became a full-blown skeptic of Darwinian evolution. Dr. Egnor explains how he originally had internal doubt about the ability of Darwinism to produce new biological information. These doubts were then brought directly to the surface when he read books by leading ID-theorists like William Dembski and Michael Behe.
Thoughts: On Critical Analysis and the Classroom
Why is the science establishment against critical analysis? As Rob Crowther explains in this episode of ID the Future, if students are to learn science, and not dogma, they must be free to analyze the evidence — both for and against evolution.
The Design of Life: What the Evidence of Biological Systems Reveals
In this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems with author Dr. William Dembski. Is design in nature just an “illusion”, as Richard Dawkins proclaims? In this latest publication, Dembski and co-author Dr. Jonathan Wells show the answer is “no”. Biologists have and continue to use the assumption of design successfully, precisely because design in biology is not an illusion but real.
Intelligently Designed Nanotechnology
As Casey Luskin reveals in this episode of ID the Future, eminent biologists have said that they must continually remind themselves that what they see in biology evolved, and was not designed. But now engineers are turning to biology to replace human technology because biological pathways provide superior solutions to biomedical-technological needs. Is this trend more consistent with an evolved biosphere, or an intelligent designed one? Listen to this podcast and decide for yourself.
Nature Spreads the Evolution Word
On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines a recent editorial by Nature magazine praising the NAS booklet on “Science, Evolution, and Creationism.” Luskin argues that Nature‘s rhetorical and political defense of evolution has increased to the point that it threatens the prestige of science in society and endangering the academic freedom of scientists who dissent from Darwinism.
Academic Freedom Petition — Support Scientists, Teachers and Students
On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther and Casey Luskin discuss the new website Discovery Institute launched in cooperation with Motive Marketing last week, www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com. AcademicFreedomPetition.com is where you can show your support for the rights of teachers and students to learn all about evolution, and to protect the freedom of scientists to research alternative scientific theories such as intelligent design. Supporters of academic freedom can go to www.academicfreedompetition.com to sign the Academic Freedom Petition and stand up for science.
Darwin Day Lecture: Proselytizing for Darwin’s God in the Classroom
For years supporters of Darwin’s theory claimed to oppose teaching religion in the nation’s science classrooms. But just in time for Darwin Day 2008, leading evolution proponents including the National Academy of Sciences, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Center for Science Education have been cynically promoting religious instruction in schools as a way of defusing opposition to Darwinian evolution. Dr. John West, author of Darwin Day in America, discusses Darwinists’ latest efforts to insert religion into the classroom. This event was filmed in front of a live audience on Feb. 6th, 2008 for broadcast on the web as part of the ID the Future Darwin Day broadcast on February 12th.
Salvo Magazine on Intelligent Design
On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Bobby Maddex on Salvo Magazine’s latest issue, which features a primer on intelligent design. Several luminaries in the ID community contributed to this issue, including Caroline Crocker, Larry Caldwell, Mike Egnor, Casey Luskin, Jay Richards, Denyse O’Leary, William Dembski, and many more.
Read More ›Teach Critiques of Darwin in Florida
On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Fred Cutting, a member of the Framers’ Committee for Florida’s new science standards who recently submitted a minority report suggesting that the new standards encourage students to “learn why some scientists give scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution.” Mr. Cutting is a retired engineer who recently published an editorial in the The Tallahassee Democrat, “Teach Critiques of Darwin, Too.”