Category: academic freedom
Top Johns Hopkins Surgeon Persecuted for being a Creationist
| May 5, 2012 | Posted by scordova under academic freedom, Creationism |
World-renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is under fire from several biology professors at Emory University, where he’s scheduled to give the commencement address. They wrote a letter to the school newspaper after learning Carson does not believe in evolution,….. Dr. Ben Carson’s Beliefs On Evolution Stir Controversy At Emory University About 500 Darwinist… more
On Tennessee’s Academic Freedom Bill – The Endgame, Part 2
| April 24, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under academic freedom |
Time to give the answer to my previous post, where I asked UD readers if they could figure out why Tennessee’s academic freedom bill was a brilliant move. To my surprise (I underestimated people!) most commenters were within the ballpark right away, and Barry pretty much nailed it. Let’s take a look at Barry’s response. more
On Tennessee’s Academic Freedom Bill – The Endgame, Part 1
| April 24, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under academic freedom, Intelligent Design |
By now, news of Tennessee’s Academic Freedom Bill has made the rounds. There’s been all kinds of analysis about it, harsh criticisms as well as defense. But as near as I can tell, just about everyone has missed what this bill has truly accomplished. Call it a cheap tactic, call it a trojan horse. Me?… more
Welcome to academic freedom at Chicago State: Only if you clear it with PR first?
| April 18, 2012 | Posted by News under academic freedom, News |
Note: Chicago State University is not to be confused with the University of Chicago, which is still governed by normal persons. more
Gil on what’s at stake in the end — the credibility of science
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Science, worldview issues and society |
I passed by and noticed Gil’s go-to-the heart-of-the-matter comment on the “a picture is worth . . . “ thread: The worst part is that these clowns are destroying public trust in legitimate science. As usual, Gil has gone straight to the key point. When science and science education as well as popular science and… more
Must-see Vid: Darwin’s heretic — Alfred Russel Wallace
| January 22, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Biography, ID Foundations, science education, Video |
A few months back, we looked at the story of Wallace’s views here and again here. Now, thanks to an online premiere, here’s the movie (HT: ENV): embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Relax, enjoy, and discuss. END _____________ F/N: to understand Wallace, have a read of his major book published in 1910 ff, The World… more
ID Foundations, 10: Alfred Russel Wallace takes on the attitude and assumptions behind methodolical naturalism
| November 16, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, science education |
(Series) Alfred Russel Wallace is the all but forgotten co-founder of modern evolutionary thought. His major book reveals a bit of why, right from the title and sub-title: The World of Life: a manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose. In short, Wallace was a design thinker, and in fact he was also… more
Remember the criminal hyperlink? Released from detention for now …
| October 20, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design, News |
So this is best seen as a temporary setback for the social engineers who could never build an Internet and can’t give up on the dream of controlling one. more
Culture: Martin Luther King’s student followers would not be accepted on today’s campus
| September 18, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Culture, News |
The ID controversy is a small but crucial part of a much larger battle for intellectual freedom and for truth that matters. more
Toldjah: Don’t tell us “Oh, but that’s just China …” Listen.
| September 4, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Culture, News |
All that needs to happen anywhere is that a bunch of opinion leaders, angered by the effective competition from the “nobodies” who blog, bend the ear of government about the dangers of unregulated opinion. more
Someone noticed: Lawyers starting to weigh in on campus thought police
| September 3, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom |
They might want to check into what’s happening to students too. They should see Expelled as well. more
Profs start to worry about illiberal campuses – when it hits them
| August 21, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, News |
And now, when it comes to free speech, the profs will have to either put up or shut up – for their entire careers. more
CONTEST! Best Response to Professor Pompous Gets Free Copy of “The Nature of Nature”
| July 20, 2011 | Posted by Barry Arrington under academic freedom, Intelligent Design |
UPDATE: WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL FANTASTIC ENTRIES ALREADY. BUT THERE IS STILL TIME TO POST AN ENTRY. I WILL JUDGE THE CONTEST ON 7-26-11 A couple of months ago a young university student contacted my law office seeking help in a dispute she was having with a university here in Colorado. [To protect my client’s… more
Expell-ees you might not have heard about
| July 11, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Darwinism |
They didn’t make it into the film. Caroline Crocker, author of Free to Think and currently executive director of AITSE (dedicated to rescuing science from the mudslide of “science”), reflected in her book on discovering that she was not alone, that the Expelled were quite numerous: There is companionship in troubles, and the more public… more
Paul Nelson asks: Why are young American scientists too afraid to appear in this video?
| July 9, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Darwinism, Video |
Claire Berlinski comments at Ricochet: “Seriously, if you could have seen how everyone scrambled to get out of the camera when I said we just want to talk about the interesting things we were talking about yesterday. And people are afraid. It would be the end of their careers.” Caption quote: “People who want to… more
Ivory tower economics explains part of why evidence is irrelevant to Darwinism
| July 8, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom |
In “Climate of Fear: Big Science, Big Government” (Forbes, July 8, 2011), Patrick Michaels, lobbyist for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admits, In his 1961 Farewell Address, Dwight Eisenhower famously predicted the rise of a “military-industrial complex,” in which he said, “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and… more
We can still legally refuse to drink the Kool-Aid
| July 2, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intelligent Design |
In “Making Stories Visible The Task for Bioethics Commissions” (Issues in Science and Technology 27/2), Meera Lee Sethi and Adam Briggle explore claims made for science finds – under the banner, “Critical skepticism is always appropriate”: blockquote> Narrative explanations can help us understand difficult scientific issues, but they can also mislead us. Critical skepticism is… more
Stomping out independent thought, Campus USA
| June 18, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intelligent Design |
Caroline Crocker, author of Free to Think, on Darwin trolls harassing students on campus: At a recent conference in Hawaii I was approached by a group of about eight students lamenting about how only one side of the evolution issue is taught in their classrooms and that anyone who suggests that there may be scientific… more
She said it: Nancy Pearcey’s thoughtful article on how “Christianity is a Science-starter, not a Science-stopper”
| June 17, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Ethics, Evolution, Expelled, Free Speech, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, science education, Society |
One of the most common objections to design thought is the idea that it is about the improper injection of the alien supernatural into the world of science. (That is itself based on a strawman misrepresentation of design thought, as was addressed here a few days ago.) However, there is an underlying root, a common… more
He said it: Prof Lewontin’s strawman “justification” for imposing a priori materialist censorship on origins science
| June 15, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Creationism, Darwinism, Design inference, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, science education, theistic evolution |
Yesterday, in the P Z Myers quote-mining and distortion thread, I happened to cite Lewontin’s infamous 1997 remark in his NYRB article, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” on a priori imposition of materialist censorship on origins science, which reads in the crucial part: It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… more