Endowed by Our Creator

As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, Discovery Institute marks its 35th with a campaign to reinvigorate Americans with the founding truth that we are endowed by our creator with a life of purpose, creativity, and opportunities for innovation.

Report

How Americans View the Founding

As America approaches its 250th birthday, most Americans admire the American Founding, but less than 4 in 10 think they come from God, that indeed they are “endowed by our creator.” How Americans View the American Founding presents extensive data from two new national surveys of American adults.

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Books

Endowed by Our Creator

In this timely book, political scientist John G. West explores the original meaning of the Declaration and shows how its propositions drew support from both the Bible and early modern science. He then documents how science was later misused to overturn the Declaration’s teaching on equality, subvert its understanding of liberty, and justify the creation of a technocratic state that regulates us from cradle to grave.
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Ultimate Engineering

Evolutionary theory predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. But as Burgess shows in Ultimate Engineering, the latest science has discovered just the opposite — designs so advanced they are at the limit of the possible, precisely as proponents of the theory of intelligent design anticipated. As Burgess also details, he and other researchers are taking the discovery of these advanced designs and using them to inspire fresh technological breakthroughs — a revolution known as biomimetics.
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Events

Science, Faith, and the American Idea

Join us at the 8th-Annual Dallas Conference on Science & Faith as we explore how science is showing that God purposefully created life and endowed each human being with reason and creativity, moral responsibility, and an immortal soul. The conference will feature keynote speaker and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, along with philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, author and filmmaker John G. West, award-winning engineer Stuart Burgess, and many others.
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