I know this is just a few months early, but please do check out www.academicfreedomday.com, and consider entering the contest!
If you don't think its worth your time, go watch Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Modern neo-Darwinism -- as represented by the likes of NCSE (up there with "Christian Science" as the worst misnomer of all time), Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Michael Ruse, and Ken Miller -- has owned the academy for over a century. It has become the overarching paradigm in Biology, and there are powerful and vocal scientists who sincerely believe it should be the organizing principal of SCIENCE. This wouldn't be so bad, except that it is grossly deceptive as an organizing principal for anything but a few parts of population genetics. If it's such a powerful theory, why don't its proponents let it flex its muscles instead of hiding it in a cage behind bold posters proclaiming its power? Historically, what sort of ideologies have suppressed the right to speak in dissent? (e.g. totalitarian governments, incl. fascism and communism...) Shouldn't the Academy, of all places, be open to challenging ideas? Does denying that there are qualified, intelligent scientists (many of whom are NOT particularly religious!) who question the power of evolution to explain the origin of complex life make them go away?
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