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Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design.

Deadline for Summer Seminars Is Almost Here — April 2 — An Amazing and FREE Opportunity

Strike back at speech suppression. This is the science your professors would fear to teach about objectively. Read More ›
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Photo: South Dakota State Capitol, by Runner1928 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

In South Dakota, More Groundless Alarm about Academic Freedom

South Dakota’s HB 1270, proposed this year, was a simple, straightforward academic freedom bill. Unfortunately, it did not pass. Read More ›
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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — Unique Opportunity for the Sincerely Curious Learner

Recently I spoke to a university senior who is a leader in a political club at her school. I wondered how things were going for the club. Read More ›
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Listen: Dissent from Darwin List Tops 1,000 — Now the Scientists Weigh In

Robert Crowther explores why some scientists are willing to risk their research and careers to voice their skepticism of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Why Discovery Institute Has Asked Some Scientists Not to Sign the Darwin Dissent List

This is what I mean when I say the list of a thousand plus vastly understates the number of scientists who are skeptical of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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“Scientific Dissent from Darwinism” List: The Tip of an Iceberg

The signers of the Dissent list have all risked their careers or reputations in signing. Such is the power of groupthink. Read More ›
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Academic Freedom Resolutions — For Darwin Day, Another Valuable Option for Citizen Activists

You may already know about academic freedom bills — such as those passed in Louisiana in 2008 and Tennessee in 2012. Read More ›
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Photo: Albert Einstein Memorial, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., by G0T0 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?

Kevin Williamson imagines that scientists are free to “slug it out” in journals and other academic settings, so that the truth reliably emerges. Read More ›
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Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage

Chait writes smart, concise dialogue on these subjects, and seems to have learned more than a thing or two from biologist Scott Turner’s recent book, Purpose and Desire. Read More ›
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Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

In Unbelievable, Mike Keas Highlights Myths and Realities of Anti-Science Persecution

The point of Dr. Keas’s book is historical but also very timely: Scientists who challenge materialism today face discrimination as heretics that squelches their research and teaching. Read More ›

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