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God, science and philanthropy at the Templeton Foundation

By Alliance Alert

Nathan Schneider writing in The Nation: "Like debates about religion broadly, debates about [The Templeton Foundation] often get mapped onto the culture wars in black and white, or red and blue. It doesn't help that the foundation is a longstanding donor to conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute . . . The stakes are high. The Templeton Foundation holds assets valued at around $1 billion, a sum that will likely swell to $2.5 billion in the years to come as John Templeton Sr.'s estate is settled . . . [Richard Dawkins] and others among the so-called New Atheists have been the foundation's most strident critics lately; they believe Templeton is corrupting science by trying to inject it with religious dogma and, in turn, misrepresent science to the public. The advance of science steamrolls over religion, they say, and Templeton is deluding people into thinking otherwise." | John Templeton Foundation

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).