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."
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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.
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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.
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The National Center for Science Education has launched a new blog, called the "Science League of America," with the stated goal of "Defending the Teaching of Evolution & Climate Science."
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The slickest way for administrators to dodge the requirements of academic freedom is to dodge the faculty handbook, which is what BSU has done, as Kelly and Murphy point out.
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