Category: Culture
From The New Yorker, Backhanded Compliments for Darwin’s Doubt
The logjam against intelligent discussion of intelligent design in the mainstream media is finally unjamming.
Is Intelligent Design Too "Transgressive" to Tolerate? More on the Investigation of Ball State University Physicist Eric Hedin
In deciding the fate of a vulnerable, untenured scientist, Professor Juli Eflin may be the wild card.
More than 7,000 Urge Ball State University to Protect Academic Freedom of Professor Eric Hedin
Discovery Institute has delivered a petition to Ball State University from more than 7,000 people, including more than 1,200 residents of Indiana, urging the university to defend the academic freedom of assistant professor of physics Eric Hedin.
A Tale of Two Professors
In 2004, the academic freedom of another Ball State University professor was challenged by an outside interest group. But university officials treated that professor in a dramatically different way from how they are treating Professor Eric Hedin. Why?
Questions Raised about Impartiality of Panel Reviewing Ball State University Professor’s Course
Three of the four appointed panelists are publicly connected to groups explicitly opposed to intelligent design.