Intelligent debate on design 2
I have taught thermodynamics at final-year university level for more than 20 years. Not only does this rigorously scientific discipline match the tenets of biblical creationism, but also the first...
I have taught thermodynamics at final-year university level for more than 20 years. Not only does this rigorously scientific discipline match the tenets of biblical creationism, but also the first...
Theology must accept scientific fact, but most academic theologians presuppose Darwinian evolution in their discussions about creation. Like all great literature, Genesis i-iii can express profound...
As a non-creationist biologist I hope I am not alone in being disturbed by Lewis Wolpert's suggestion that academics who are creationists in science departments "should be asked to reconsider their...
Well done for highlighting the creeping problems of creationism-intelligent design. But it would be better if those opposed to creationism-intelligent design stopped talking and writing about "...
Everyone has a right to express his or her opinion. But the fact that a minority of people hold a view ought not to mean that that view warrants a place on the science curriculum, whether in schools...
Tom Hickey's assertion (Opinion, June 16) that the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association had "a different concern" to that about pay is just not the case. The "commodification", or...
More than 200 University and College Union delegates at last Saturday's UCU Left Conference launched a campaign to demand an early delegate-based sector conference to address our leadership's...
I cast my ballot paper with a resounding "no" vote, I would like University College Union members to be mindful of the positions of the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe not to ballot on...
The article "Staff ignore cheating" (June 23) puts a negative spin on the work of an institution and a school that have spent four years campaigning for better and more consistent plagiarism policies...
You report an academic conduct officer stating that some lecturers can't be "arsed" to take plagiarism seriously. But do lecturers who try to deal with it always get the support they need? A draft...
Roger Brown claims (Letters, June 23) that in your report of a successful race discrimination case against Brunel University ("Brunel pays out to settle race row", June 16) Southampton Solent "was...
Could I point out that the aircraft featured on your front cover is an Avro Lincoln, a type that entered service just after the war and that took no part in the bombing of Germany. Presumably the...
It may offer insight into what it's like to be a piece of cheese, but a PhD in poetry does not indicate talent. Is it good for anything? asks Don Paterson Can poetry be taught, and is university the...
From teddy bears to tea caddies, graduation gifts are money-spinners. Olga Wojtas goes shopping It is not only lecturers, students and vice-chancellors who were anxiously hoping that graduations...
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 The global community of evangelical...