The Lehigh University Department of Biological Sciences was awarded $1.8 million by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund undergraduate education. No word if Michael Behe will use any of the money to fund his gigantic research program in intelligent design.
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Lehigh University is becoming quite active in asserting their opposition to ID. Wonder why?
Look, everyone!
..Dr. Michael Behe is a biochemist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Short news in Nature says there is a claim for one of the Millennial Clay Problems
Doubtful. HHMI's been funding Lehigh's bio department for years (I had a small sub-grant for my undergrad research there in 1998-99) - but although this grant is bigger than usual, I don't think that he'll actually get a chunk of change from that. Afterall, the rest of the department has pretty much disavowed him; and I don't imagine that after all these years he'll become interested in writing a decent project proposal or carrying it out (why start now?).
Nah, I have a feeling that the handful of other biologists there will get the money, for real research.
I assume that HHMI would be interested in something that could actually be applied. What application is there for ID again?
Daniel--That's good to hear. What is Dembski's research program like, I wonder.
Please note: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/news/evolution.htm
This department has integrity, and the courage to maintain it. They can't fire Behe, but they can b*tch-slap him as needed.
Also note: several of the Lehigh biology faculty members have personal statements up on their lab's websites. My favorite was Jill Schneider's.
Anyway, I gathered the links to their sites and put them up on my blog:
Lehigh biology dept on ID