Friday 21 August 2015

Templeton hosts a biology-and-faith conference where the outcome is—surprise!—predetermined

Templeton hosts a biology-and-faith conference where the outcome is—surprise!—predetermined

The telling but unsurprising thing about this conference is that it’s posed as addressing a contentious and unresolved question—whether there’s conflict between religion and biology—but then choosing (as far as I can tell) only speakers who said “No–NO CONFLICT!” In other words, the conference was an expensive exercise in confirmation bias.
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