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# science
Templeton fellows keep making grand speeches promising to connect faith and science and failing miserably.
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Ayala shows us that the accommodationist ruse only works as long as no one can pin down your concrete views on where belief ends and science begins.
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John Polkinghorne managed to create a version of God that's both truly omnipresent and omniscient, and almost entirely powerless and irrelevant.
# politics
Templeton sends a not so subtle signal to the National Academy of Sciences that they intend to keep spreading their tentacles deeper and deeper into all public discourse about science.
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Michael Ruse seems to be angling for some of that sweet, sweet Templeton money by talking out of both sides of his mouth. But mostly the side that slams science and atheists...
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Chris Mooney has effectively allowed the Templeton Foundation to bribe him not to write anything negative about religious zealotry or over-reach.
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Like a dog trying to mark every tree, the Templeton Foundation is trying to mark every scientific breakthrough as being motivated entirely by religion.