Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things. Rick Warren: A life of purpose. Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren. Julia Sweeney on letting go of God. Discovery Institute. The Discovery Institute is a U.S. non-profit public policy think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of the pseudoscience "intelligent design".
Its Teach the Controversy campaign aims to teach creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school science courses alongside accepted scientific theories, positing a scientific controversy exists over these subjects.[2][3][4][5][6] In Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania found:
Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism. Stewart Brand on the Long Now. Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'