Tag: Jerry Coyne
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.
Project Brain: Our Prediction
You often hear people compare the brain to a computer. After all, much like a computer, our brain seems to store information and regulate functions behind the scenes.
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?
Scientific Anti-Humanism Is Being Refuted by Science Itself
Darwin taught that life is the product of blind, meaningless, purposeless churning — making all life, including human, hardly more special or dignified than cosmic refuse.
Is Jodi Arias a Man-Eating Tiger?
Any system of justice that would not meaningfully distinguish between man and beast is not worthy of the name.