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For Darwin Day 2014, Discovery Institute Will Name University of Chicago Biologist Jerry Coyne as "Censor of the Year"

"This is very serious business," said Dr. John West, associate director of the Center for Science & Culture. "Censorship retards the search for truth and hurts innocent people. Read More ›

A Taxonomy of Evasion: Reviewing the Reviewers of Darwin’s Doubt

For his review in Science of Stephen Meyer's Darwin's Doubt, UC Berkeley paleontologist Charles Marshall wins a prize. Read More ›

"What Is the World Really Like?" Darwinism, Materialism, and How They Relate

John Searle, the eminent professor of philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, once said that "there is a sense in which materialism is the religion of our time." Read More ›

Kids Bored in Science Class? Empower Them to Explore Hot Topics

It takes guts to empower students to explore hot topics. Sacred cows may be tipped. But there's no learning, and no innovation, without some risk to the status quo. Read More ›

Shock: At Ball State University, Non-Science Courses May Contain Non-Science

Gora has to either go ape on pretty much the entire honors college, or she has to stop pretending that mixing science and non-science in BSU's honors college is novel, unexpected, and sinful. Read More ›

Ball State University’s Dangerous Idea: Selective Academic Freedom

At Ball State, you are completely free to teach whatever you want as long as you want to teach this. Read More ›

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