Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

universities

Padlock_zero_by_Henry_Söderlund
Photo credit: Henry Söderlund, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scholars Association Embraces Academic Boycotts: Intellectual Freedom Will Be the Victim

The intellectual boycott is an academic system’s usual defense against any ideas it can’t handle. Read More ›
018_Human_looking_at_the_stars_during_Perseids_with_the_Milky_Way_in_the_background_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent
Photo credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and Justin Brierley on the Mainstreaming of Intelligent Design

Justin Brierley asked whether the “stigma” attached to ID had faded. Meyer smiled and answered very much in the affirmative. Read More ›
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Photo: Harvard Museum of Natural History, by Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism, via Flickr (cropped).

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›
Tongan island
Photo credit: Miyasige Tosikazu, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›
Gonzalez
Photo source: Discovery Institute.

Summer Seminars in Colorado — A FREE Remedy for Cancel Culture; Applications Due April 1

As one of our students last year said at the concluding banquet, the Summer Seminars represent “science as it should be, rather than science as it is.” Read More ›
academia
Photo credit: Abhijitsathe, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›
Yuval Noah Harari
Photo credit: World Economic Forum, via Flickr (cropped).

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›
1983_Minnesota_Twins_Postcards_John_Castino
Photo: John Castino in 1983, by Minnesota Twins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can Evidence of a Creator Bring Hope?

John Castino's life spiraled out of control. His faith in God was based on his feelings, and so when times turned bad, he lost his faith. Read More ›
Earthrise
Earth
Photo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image (2015), by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University [Public domain].

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›
on the road
Photo credit: Yeshi Kangrang via Unsplash.

On the Road with Our Supporters

These two young ladies are representative of many others who are desperately seeking our message of purpose and hope. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute