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Greetings. My name is Casey Luskin. Thanks for visiting my website. I am an attorney who works in Seattle, Washington as Program Officer in Public Policy & Legal Affairs with The Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Before studying law, I was a geologist and spent much of my studies doing geological research at Scripps Institution for Oceanography. I also volunteer with a non-profit volunteer organization called the "IDEA Center," which helps students learn about and promote the scientific theory of intelligent design on university and high school campuses. Here are a few examples of articles and book contributions I have published in the legal, scientific, and popular arenas: Casey Luskin, “Does Challenging Darwin Create Constitutional Jeopardy? A Comprehensive Survey of Case Law Regarding the Teaching of Biological Origins,” Hamline Law Review, Vol. 32(1):1 (Winter, 2009). Casey Luskin, “Intelligent Design,” entry in Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States, edited by James Carper (Greenwood Publishing, 2009). Casey Luskin, “Creationism,” entry in Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States, edited by James Carper (Greenwood Publishing, 2009). Casey Luskin, "Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Freedom of Discovery on Evolutionists' Holy Day," U.S. News & World Report (February 10, 2009). Casey Luskin, “Reverse Psychology: When It Comes to Human Behavior, Darwinian Hindsight Is Always 20/20,” Salvo Magazine, Issue 7 (2009). Casey Luskin, “Finding Intelligent Design in Nature,” chapter in Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues, edited by H. Wayne House (Kregel, 2008). Casey Luskin and Logan Paul Gage, “A Reply to Francis Collins’ Darwinian Arguments for Common Ancestry of Apes and Humans,” appendix in Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues, edited by H. Wayne House (Kregel, 2008). Casey Luskin, "Academic Freedom and Evolution," San Diego Union Tribune (2008). Casey Luskin, "Let There Be Open Debate Over Evolution," Tampa Tribune (2008). Casey Luskin, “Has ID Been Banned in Public Schools?,” Salvo Magazine, Issue 4 (2008). David DeWolf, John West, and Casey Luskin, “Intelligent Design Will Survive Kitzmiller v. Dover,” Montana Law Review, Vol. 68:7 (Winter, 2007). Anika Smith and Casey Luskin, Review of Intelligent Thought in Touchstone Magazine (2007). David K. DeWolf, John West, Casey Luskin, Jonathan Witt, Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Trial (Discovery Institute Press, 2006). Casey Luskin, “Do Car Engines Run on Lugnuts? A Response to Ken Miller & Judge Jones's Straw Tests of Irreducible Complexity for the Bacterial Flagellum,” ISCID Archives (April, 2006). Casey Luskin, “All Sides of the Issue Belong in the Classroom,” op-ed in Philadelphia Inquirer (Sept. 29, 2005). Casey Luskin, “What Is Intelligent Design?,” Human Events (2005). Casey Luskin, “It's Constitutional But Not Smart to Teach Intelligent Design in Schools,” Beliefnet.com (2005). Casey Luskin, “Intelligent Design and Human Evolution,” Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design (Summer, 2005). Casey Luskin, "Alternative Viewpoints about Biological Origins as Taught in Public Schools," Journal of Church and State (Summer, 2005). Lisa Tauxe, Casey Luskin, Peter Selkin, Phillip Gans, and Andy Calvert, “Paleomagnetic results from the Snake River Plain: Contribution to the time-averaged field global database,” Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), 5(8) (August, 2004). Casey Luskin, “Intelligent design debate becomes personal,” Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology (December, 2002). About this Website: The official purpose of this website is NOT to create a narcissistic URL with my name. Quite frankly I could care less if there is a "caseyluskin.com" out there. The purpose is to have some measure of quality control over the first hit people see on internet search engines if they have the odd desire to search for my name. I have written quite a bit on the scientific theory of intelligent design. I also try to treat people nicely and with respect, even when they disagree with me. My views combined with my respectful approach tends to incur the wrath of a small cadre of internet-Darwinists whose primary tactic of opposing intelligent design is to call names and engage in character assassination. I have nothing against these people whatsoever, and I am saddened that they treat me as such. This website is my attempt to let people see who I am before they see what a small fraction of Darwinists who have never met me and don't know anything about me say about me simply because I disagree with their majority paradigm viewpoint and simultaneously treat them kindly. If you're confused about why they do this, so am I. In the end, I suppose Thomas Kuhn was right when he said: "No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others." (Kuhn, T., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd Ed, 1970, Univ of Chicago Press, pg. 24) Nonetheless, Thanks for visiting my website and I hope you enjoy looking around CaseyLuskin.com!

Contact: e-mail Casey at "casey@ideacenter.org"