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In his book The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney declares war on intelligent design, calling it a “reactionary crusade” promoted by “[s]cience abusers.” Discovery Institute now responds to Mooney’s war on intelligent design (ID) by publishing a detailed report authored by Casey Luskin, “Whose War Is It, Anyway? Exposing Chris Mooney’s Attack on Intelligent Design,” documenting 14 major errors Mooney makes when writing about ID in his book.

CSC Senior Fellow, biologist Jonathan Wells talks about dogmatic Darwinism and how underwhelming the evidence for the theory really is. According to Wells Darwinism is ideology masquerading as science. For more information, read Wells’ article “Survival of the Fakest.” And be sure to visit the Center for Science & Culture homepage.

This week’s IDTF podcast features a commentary on some mainstream scientific journals use of harsh diction against skeptics of evolution and how they show an intense bias against intelligent design. For more information on this and related topics be sure to visit the Center for Science & Culture at www.discovery.org/csc/.

This episode of IDTF focuses on yet another case of academic freedom being withheld from a scholar because of his views on intelligent design. Baylor University recently denied tenure to noted scholar, and CSC Fellow, Francis Beckwith. Beckwith is an impeccable scholar with a distinguished publication record, and his colleagues are becoming incensed at his treatment.

“A Meaningful World is simply the best book I’ve seen on the purposeful design of nature.

Michael J. Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box

Standing in stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature reveals a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose.

In this episode Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman comments on Pope Benedict’s conclave on evolution scheduled for this weekend. Recent news stories that the Pope may be about to endorse intelligent design as a scientific theory is way off the mark, according to Chapman. For more about the Catholic Church’s debate over evolution and intelligent design visit Evolutuion News & Views.

In this episode of ID The Future, we look at what critical analysis of evolution really is and why it’s needed in science classes today. In his book, Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin wrote about the necessity for critical analysis in all academic endeavors stating that, “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.”

Biologist and CSC senior fellow Jonathan Wells agrees.

“If students are to learn science, and not merely be indoctrinated in Darwinism as an unquestionable dogma,” says Wells, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, “they must analyze the actual evidence for and against it.”