Of the four Emory professors who originally raised the alarm over Dr. Carson's views on evolution, one is actually a supporter of a "teach the controversy" approach to science pedagogy in schools.
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In the Ben Carson story, the most appalling thing I've seen so far is an email I might have missed were it not for the careful eyes of CSC fellow Cornelius Hunter.
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Dr. Gerald Joyce is lonely. A researcher at Scripps Research Institute and long-time proponent of the "RNA World" hypothesis, Dr. Joyce confesses to his feelings of gloomy isolation in an article in PLoS Biology.
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"Since I am a historian who has studied and published on the history of evolutionary ethics, I was rather surprised by the Emory faculty's consternation over Dr. Carson's belief that evolution undermines objective ethics and morality."
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It's not only a rigid predisposition in favor of materialism that skews most evolutionary science but a magnetic predilection in favor of positive explanations, period.
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