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New Proposal Could Deny Accreditation to Religious Colleges Based on “Science” | Evolution News

Needless to say, this proposal is not grounded in science, which is supposed to prize open debate and scrutiny, not censorship.

John G. West (Evolution News) | he Higher Education Opportunity Act in the United States currently requires accreditation bodies to “respect the stated mission” of religious colleges and universities in their accreditation standards. In other words, accreditors aren’t supposed to use accreditation standards as a pretext for restricting the free speech and religious liberty rights of...

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Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix | Evolution News

Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning.

by John Lennox | Science proceeds on the basis of the assumption that the universe is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to the human mind. No science can be done without the scientist believing this, so it is important to ask for grounds for this belief. Atheism gives us none, since it posits a mindless, unguided origin of the universe’s life and...

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Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation” | Evolution News

He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science.

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“(It might be noteworthy that Jerzy Dzik is a kind of maverick fringe paleontologist notorious for very controversial interpretations.)” having this be included in a takedown of the theory that dickinsonia was an animal is so fucking funny

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Unbelievable: The Myth of Alien Enlightenment | Evolution News

It’s the “most remarkable trade-in offer in the history of popular science,” says science historian and Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Keas.