Issue Position: Intelligent Design & The Expelled Movie

Issue Position

Issue Position: Intelligent Design & The Expelled Movie

In December 2006, my subcommittee staff completed an investigation of bias at the Smithsonian Institution and released a report entiteld: "Intolerance and the Politicization of Science at the Smithsonian Institution."

The report concluded that the Smithsonian's leadership permitted the harrassment and demotion of Dr. Richard v. Sternberg, a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, because he allowed publication of an article favoring the theory of Intelligent Design in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, a peer-reviewed biology journal published by the Biological Society of Washington.

The staff report was mentioned in "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," a documentary hosted by Ben Stein that was released nationwide in April 2008.

You may find out more about Darwinian Theory and Intelligent Design by visiting: http://www.intelligentdesign.org. If you're specifically looking for books, I'd recommend that you visit the Books page on the Web site for the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. I'd especially recommend: Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe, Signs of Intelligence by William Dembski and James Kushiner, and Darwin on Trial by Phillip Johnson.

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