Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

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The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Source
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Summers Seminars: A MUST if You’re Considering a Science Career; Applications Due April 1

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One student said he was shocked to find that the academic quality was greater than that of many of his college courses and yet it cost him nothing. Source
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“Safe to Question” — Another Graduate of Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Shares Her Story

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Behind every Iron Curtain is a private network of dissenters, who come out into the light when the curtain falls. That was the case with the old Soviet Union. And so it is in the tightly policed world of evolutionary biology with its “great evolutionary firewall,” guarding against expressions of fundamental doubt about neo-Darwinian theory. Discovery Institute is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, to be held this year from July 10 to 18 in Seattle. The application deadline is March 4. Intended for current undergraduate and graduate students plus a few teachers and professors, the Seminars run on two parallel tracks:  The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society; and  The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the…
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