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Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence
radarsat1 writes "The Montreal Gazette today reported that a professor at Montreal's McGill University was refused a $40,000 grant, allegedly because 'he'd failed to provide the panel with ample evidence that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is correct.' Ironically, the grant was for a study into the detrimental effects of intelligent design on Canadian academics and leaders." From the article: "Jennifer Robinson, McGill's associate vice-principal for communications, said the university has asked the SSHRC to review its decision to reject Alters's request for money to study how the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada."
Neither. It is both ignorant and dishonest to say that any of the "theories" (yes I am using that term loosely) for how we came to exist is anything more than theory. Darwinian theory happens to have the strongest science to back it up. ID recognizes this but allows for the possibility of it being wrong as well.
I get the feeling from the vitrol of your post that you would hold the theory of evolution to be law. So I ask you then, why is it still just a theory? Do you have some empirical evidence that eliminates the other possibilities? I for one don't and therefore prefer to reserve judgement until more facts are presented. As far as I am concerned in my daily life it is not vital for me to put all of my eggs in any one basket.
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Looks like scientists are shouting down people who disagree with them. Galileo and Einstein would be proud. More mod points wasted. Yawn.
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"The rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada"
Repeat after me, people -- ID is NOT creationism.
In fact, ID and creationism are antithetical to each other -- if one is true, the other is false.
Creationism == the earth was created as it was said in the bible (created in 7 days, the earth is only a couple thousand years old, etc.)
ID == natural selection is true, creatures evolved, but an intelligent designer influenced evolution.
If the professor himself couldn't understand this very basic difference between the two ideas, he definitely didn't deserve to get a grant to study it. It'd be like a physicist not understanding the difference between newtonian and quantum physics applying for a grant to study the possible implications of quantum mechanics.