Settlement leaves questions of faith and science up in the air

“Should the University of Kentucky have hired a qualified astronomer to lead their new observatory, despite his strong religious views and his public doubts about evolution? Or was their decision to pass him over discrimination? Alas for those who would relish a public hashing out of these thorny questions, a lawsuit over the matter has been settled …” (more)

[Emma Marris, The Great Beyond, 19 January]

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