swamidass
October 9, 2018, 2:17am
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A question came up about my funding to participate in the AAAS Science for Seminaries program. I am including it on this thread to keep questions along these lines in one place.
While I am not oppose for Dr. Swamidass to do science out reaches at Christian schools, him taking Templeton funding via AAAS can be problematic.
I want to be clear about this, I did not take Templeton funding to do this. I received two or three very small honorariums that might trace funds back to Templeton. If there is a true conflict of interest here, I would gladly return these checks. I do not however believe there was a conflict.
One of the entertaining ironies of this situation is that Coyne and @patrick might have found common ground with Ken Ham on this one. He too was very concerned with Templeton funding collaboration between scientists and seminaries.
For full disclosure, please list dates, amounts, and source of the honorariums that you accepted. Thank you.
This was years ago, and I do not have records. My recollection is that this was less than $1000 total, if even that. I’m not even sure if this was from Concordia or AAAS. The number from AAAS might have been zero.
The more central point is that I received zero funding for this effort. Small honorariums do not count as funding.