{"id":297,"date":"2005-11-16T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:01:42","slug":"templeton-on-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Templeton on ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve criticized the Templeton Foundation in the past for their endless attempts to blur the line between science and religion, supporting some of the most dubious research in cosmology and physics.  To be fair to them, at least they are not promoting Intelligent Design, something they make clear in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/topics_in_the_news\/Official_Statement.asp\">statement released on Monday<\/a>.  The statement challenges a front-page Wall Street Journal story that referred to Templeton as a supporter of ID.  Evidently one of the main pieces of evidence that the Wall Street Journal gave for this was Templeton&#8217;s support of IDer Guillermo Gonzalez as part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/cftrp\/\">Cosmology and Fine-Tuning Research Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re interested in seeking funding from Templeton, you&#8217;d be aligning yourself with an organization controlled by right-wingers that wants to bring religion into science, but they&#8217;re not IDers.  If you decide to go for it, it looks like Dec. 1 is the day when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fqxi.org\/\">fq(x)<\/a>, a Templeton funded program run by highly reputable physicists, will announce how to apply for money from them.  If you just want to extract money from Templeton for something completely flaky, I&#8217;d suggest considering another new program they are funding, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctns.org\/stars\/index.html\">Science and Theology Advanced Research Series<\/a> (STARS), devoted to  research &#8220;on the ways science, in light of philosophical and religious reflection, points towards the nature, character and meaning of ultimate reality.&#8221;  It appears that, if you play your cards right, you can get a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctns.org\/stars\/conferences.html\">winter break in Cancun<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctns.org\/stars\/grants.html\">grants<\/a> of \\$20,000 in walking around money and multiples of \\$100,000 to look into this ultimate reality thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve criticized the Templeton Foundation in the past for their endless attempts to blur the line between science and religion, supporting some of the most dubious research in cosmology and physics. 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