What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

academia, academics, agnostics, atheists, biology, China, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Evolution, human nature, humanists, Intelligent Design, Lucy Hyde, origin of life, peer pressure, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol, Whewell Centre
"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Source
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Status Signaling in the Herd: Why Otherwise Good Scientists Sneer at Intelligent Design

Aldous Huxley, Bible, biology, chemists, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, jobs, materialistic paradigm, Meaning, media, morality, natural law theory, Pandemic of Lunacy, peer pressure, Phillip Johnson, promotion, scientific reasoning, snake handlers, social status, status signaling, University of Texas at Austin, yahoos
"Here is Johnson, giving a very studious argument for ID, and the other fellow thinks it’s sufficient to say, 'I know it's wrong because my friend told me.'" Source
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