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Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”
Evolution News ^ | 5-12-25 | John G. West

Posted on 05/14/2025 1:41:22 PM PDT by DeweyCA

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This article lists good reasons why people are now more skeptical of scientific claims. We can trust science, but we can't trust many scientists (e.g. Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, et al.).

John G. West Senior Fellow, Managing Director, and Vice President of Discovery Institute Dr. John G. West is Vice President of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Seattle Pacific University, West is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker who has written or edited 12 books, including Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, and Walt Disney and Live Action: The Disney Studio’s Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s. His documentary films include Fire-Maker, Revolutionary, The War on Humans, and (most recently) Human Zoos. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University, and he has been interviewed by media outlets such as CNN, Fox News, Reuters, Time magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.

1 posted on 05/14/2025 1:41:22 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Cue the music

I was blinded, by pseudo science!


2 posted on 05/14/2025 1:43:02 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: DeweyCA

$CIENCE!


3 posted on 05/14/2025 1:45:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeweyCA

It is not “science” if your purpose is to squash, cancel, intimidate and try to silence the skeptic. Those acts are the acts of a theocratic orthodox religious elite, not “science”.


4 posted on 05/14/2025 1:47:44 PM PDT by Wuli (.)
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To: dfwgator
Wear a Mask if You Wanna
5 posted on 05/14/2025 1:50:54 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: DeweyCA

This looks like a job for Dr. Science!...”He knows more than you do.”


6 posted on 05/14/2025 1:52:55 PM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: DeweyCA
Most people never heard of Collins until COVID hit. But for Christians involved in science, this guy has been a major PITA for decades. His idea of "science" is that it is decided by left-wing ideologues at Ivy League universities, who tell their lower-ranked brethren what to think in articles and forums that they control and censor. Dissidents are fired, censored, deplatformed and ignored. Committees of like-minded academics are organized to "manage" the news and any controversies and control the narrative with subservient media.

Basically, this guy is a class A ideologue and hypocrite and the sort of person who fossilizes science rather than allowing it to explore new ideas and advance.

7 posted on 05/14/2025 1:58:23 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Wuli
Much of what is called "science" these days reminds me more of the Millerites and other "end of times" death cults.

Just another man made climate change cult hoax and mafia style fear, shakedown, payola for "protection" money laundering scheme.

Why aren't we prosecuting with R.I.C.O. charges the perps running all of these country destroying man made climate change hoax "scientists", "non profits" and NGOs?

Ditto the perverts going after the kids.

Heavily fine and jail all of the grifters running them.

8 posted on 05/14/2025 1:58:25 PM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: DeweyCA
As I document in my book Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, BioLogos was started originally to convince evangelical Christians to embrace Darwinian evolution and delegitimize scientists like biochemist Michael Behe who think there is evidence of intelligent design in biology.

For what it's worth, I rarely hear from fellow Christians that they believe God created us through natural selection (sometimes referred to as theistic evolution). And I'm an old earther, as well as most of the people I've had conversations with on the topic of the age of the earth. For the most part, we believe the earth is billions of years old and God had a direct hand in creating each phase of creation -- He just did it billions of years ago, not 6,000 years ago, and He decided to take his sweet time doing it (a lot longer than a week). And we also believe God very directly created man, not with natural evolution and God just sitting back watching man just spring up on our own. WE just believe that He did it way more than 6,000 years ago.

We tend to discuss things like the Cambrian Explosion occurring 500 or so million years ago, and 50% to 70% of all known phyla ever knowing to exist all of a sudden appearing in the fossil record within a half a million to a million years. That seems to blow a hole in the belief that natural selection required billions of years of speciation to gradually evolve from simple organisms to advanced life. Basically, if the Cambrian Explosion accurately records the appearance of new species/genus/order/class/phylum as mostly occurring within 1 million years (instead of across billions of years like Darwinism projects), then the math of natural selection is off by a factor of over a thousand. To me, that's one of many examples that make it seem more plausible to believe that we got here through creation, not accident.

9 posted on 05/14/2025 2:02:49 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Not a Rick Roll
10 posted on 05/14/2025 2:04:43 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
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To: DeweyCA; lightman; Navy Patriot

These are among the grants that were cut!

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/16/stop-work-orders/

Without “indirect costs”, there would be no labs for scientists to work in!

Post -year 2000 research is broadening the scope of evolution research beyond Darwinism (e.g.,”:junk DNA” is not junk).

Trump-administration science policy leaves a lot to be desired.


11 posted on 05/14/2025 2:06:10 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Wuli

If they think for one moment they can restore any faith in the scientific community, they are nuts. One thing they can do is STFU. All day every day. And take Fauci with them. How much global cooling did it take to pile on 2 miles of ice on Michigan? And how much heating did it take to melt it all?


12 posted on 05/14/2025 2:09:48 PM PDT by healy61
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To: DeweyCA
From the articel --- “Federal cuts to life-saving programs and the vilification of scientists are not just political developments, but symptoms of a deeper crisis.”

This is not about science per se not about theology, but about MONEY.

As the article notes, "Contrary to BioLogos, America’s scientific establishment doesn’t need a PR campaign to inspire trust. It needs accountability, transparency, and open debate. Fortunately, the new head of NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, seems committed to real reforms. In the long run, that will do a lot more to inspire trust in science than any PR campaign."

This entity is a 5-1(c)3 charity.....

The Biologos Foundation Inc Form 990 for fiscal year ending 2023

The Form 990 "BIOLOGOS EXPLORES GOD'S WORD AND GOD'S WORLD TO INSPIRE AUTHENTIC FAITH FOR TODAY." ( Part III, line 1 )

President Deborah Haarsma took in $189,786 pay and benefits. ( Part VII, line 1a )

Other salaries of $1,059,622, with total expenses of $2,428,715. And they carry $1,875,214 in publicly traded securities.


13 posted on 05/14/2025 2:12:39 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Actually, atheist scientists disliked Collins, because he is an evangelical Christian!

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2008/04/17/the-evidence-for-belief-an-interview-with-francis-collins/


14 posted on 05/14/2025 2:13:32 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Perhaps even worse than the “science community” driven by “academics” feverishly getting behind every leftist cause du jour is their ability to worm their way into government, co-opt it, and get the government to put out regulations requiring things like windmills and solar cells that are dirtier and more deadly to animal life than what they replaced. The “scientists” get on the government payroll to get grants to churn out more graduate students who swallow the Kool Ade. Their only interest is to keep the gravy flowing.

After corrupting government, their next step is to co-opt and corrupt industry. The power and pharmaceutical industries fall in line with the liberal dogma and new orthodoxy.

The whole damn machine gets spun up, goes into hysterical overdrive, and there are hardly any voices yelling “Stop, this is ALL WRONG.”

I saw all of this from the inside when I was in the power industry for almost 30 years. It was so insidious because this corruption and co-opting took decades and moved almost imperceptibly. But at the end of the 30 years, it was all over. It made me so sick to watch utility execs fall in line to kiss regulator and fed gov butt that I finally left the industry.

For a long time, I thought that the power companies were doing JUST ENOUGH to appease the alligator. But after a long period od appeasement, new executive staff became true believers and hired more true believers from top to bottom.

It was sickening.


15 posted on 05/14/2025 2:14:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: DeweyCA

Science is NEVER settled!!!


16 posted on 05/14/2025 2:16:22 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Honorary Serb
That 2008 interview ends with an odd statement, "...if spirituality was part of God’s plan for us...."

Earlier, he speaks as if to "develop a new theology." Odd.

17 posted on 05/14/2025 2:19:53 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: DeweyCA

The “science” of COVID was a joke.
The “science” of climate change is a joke.

And — I’ll say it — the “science” of Evolution is a joke. It’s not observable. It’s not testable. It’s not repeatable. It’s a swell idea. It’s a religion. It’s NOT science.


18 posted on 05/14/2025 2:21:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (People who receive less results for effort will naturally put in less effort when the game is rigged)
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To: DeweyCA; lightman; Navy Patriot

Although it is scientists who need the grants, it is nonscientists who make the political problems at universities!

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/5/mansfield-harvard-science-humanties/

Cutting grants for cancer and Alzheimer’s research will not stop pro-Palestinian riots!


19 posted on 05/14/2025 2:26:31 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
He is not an evangelical Christian. Creation doctrine is the foundation of Christianity as well as of conservativism itself (as I have argued here since 1997), because without transcendant truths to conserve you have no conservatism.

There may be atheists who carp about his platitudes towards a satanic form of deism (since he believes in a god who is the author of all death and suffering and directly responsible for evil, all contra the Bible). But most of them know perfectly well he's playing for their side.

20 posted on 05/14/2025 3:05:31 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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