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2008
02-08-2008
Palo Alto (Stanford
Review) An Interview with Expelled Producer Mark Mathis. The film is about what happens to university scientists, professors, researchers who dare to question the theory of neo-Darwinism. The university system is supposed to be a place where you can challenge any idea. We’ve hit a time when that’s not the case; certainly not in the area of biology, paleontology, or astronomy.
02-08-2008
AMES, IA (Christian Post) Intelligent Design Professor Loses Appeal for Tenure. “The Board of Regents had an opportunity to give justice to an outstanding scientist who is a leader in his field,” added Luskin. “Instead, they caved in to political pressure and threw academic freedom to the wind.”
02-08-2008
AMES, IA (Daily
Iowan) ISU intelligent-design prof loses tenure bid. In 2004, Gonzalez published a book, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, which asserts his belief in the possibility of intelligent design.
02-07-2008
AMES, IA (WND) Intelligent design costs prof his job: Regents reject tenure request without evidence, testimony. The case involves Guillermo Gonzalez, an honored assistant professor of astronomy who has been actively working on theories of intelligent design, an effort that ultimately cost him his job, supporters say.
2007
12-20-2007
KASHMIR (BBC) Whale 'missing link' discovered. The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.
12-14-2007
LOS ANGELES, CA (Times) What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith. Sam Harris is best known for his barn-burning 2004 attack on religion, The End of Faith, which spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-seller List. The book's sequel, Letter to a Christian Nation also came out in editions totalling hundreds of thousands. Last Monday, however, the combative Californian produced a shorter (seven pages) and seemingly calmer publication that will be a hit if it reaches 10,000 readers: "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." It appears in the respected journal Annals of Neurology.
12-13-2007
LOS ANGELES, CA (Science
Daily) Different Areas Of The Brain Respond To Belief, Disbelief And Uncertainty. Sam Harris, a UCLA graduate student in the lab of Mark Cohen, a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and a study co-author, and Sameer Sheth of Massachusetts General Hospital, report that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals clear differences in the areas of the brain involved in belief, disbelief and uncertainty..
12-08-2007
MEDFORD, OR (WND) Lawsuit claims job tied to faith in natural selection. Researcher sues over dismissal because he didn't 'believe'.
12-01-2007
AMES, IA (DesMoines Register) Intelligent design
theory influenced ISU tenure vote. Iowa State
University professor Guillermo Gonzalez's support of the
theory of intelligent design damaged his prospects for
tenure long before his peers voted on the job promotion,
according to e-mails from at least one professor in his
department to those who decided Gonzalez's tenure
request.
11-18-2007
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (SFC) Does the ghost in the machine have a soul? We have shown, in other words, that materialism is wrong, and contrary to its dogmatic assertion, there is a ghost in the machine, which we may for convenience term the soul.
07-13-2007
AMES, IA (WND) Professor: 'Religion' behind tenure dispute. A scientist who believes the theory of intelligent design helps explain life's origins is appealing to state officials to save his job at Iowa State University, where his tenure was rejected because of his "personal religious and ideological beliefs."
05-18-2007
AMES, IA (Discovery) Pro-Intelligent Design Astronomer Denied Tenure Ranks Top in His Department According to Smithsonian/NASA Database. Guillermo Gonzalez, the pro-intelligent design astronomer recently denied tenure by Iowa State University (ISU), ranks the highest in his department according to a key measure of the scientific impact of his work calculated using the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), a widely used database tracking published scientific research in astronomy.
04-04-2007
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN)
Collins: Why this scientist believes in God. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."
02-14-2007
PARIS, France (Reuters)
Call for ‘neuroethics’ as science races ahead. Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers. |
