Prof. Eric Hedin gets Tenure

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Patrick

I think he was pillaged enough as he wasn’t extreme in his views so I am glad he finally got tenure. But he is damaged goods in the scientific community. It will continue to be tough for him to get funding and to publish. Although if he works really hard and discovers something grand, he will get a shot at (scientific community) redemption.

That is kind of you.

@Patrick

This case was about being a professor at a secular university and going outside of established definition of science in the teaching of science. Intelligent Design has been deemed by court decision to be creationism (religion) and not science. As such ID can not be taught as science .

So he was saying ID was science? Wouldn’t it be fine to teach ID in a course as something beyond science (i.e. not science)? Ignore for a moment the arguments they make in scientific error. For example, the fine tuning argument is based on solid science (or at least it can be), but the argument itself is beyond science.

@Patrick

He was given plenty of opportunities to jump into the very safe science but he didn’t.

I would hope so. What was he told?

@Patrick

I mentioned before walking on the tightrope between faith and science while working at a secular university is very hard.

Which is why people should know and follow The Rules of the Game.