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...Corporation was increasingly coming to the viewpoint that discontent with Summers was not just confined to FAS, according to the source close to the Corporation. Critics of Summers had arisen at the School of Public Health, the Education School, the Design School, and even portions of the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School...
...Dems, Republicans, and any other group committed to political engagement. At the risk of sounding cynical, I didn’t see the point of entering into political debate. It seemed that no one ever changed their minds, and until people were truly willing to actively entertain an alternative viewpoint, what would be the point of arguing with them...
...listened to politely. He changed no one’s mind. Life went on as before. As students, we were proud of Harvard and its administration for its steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful ideas was the expression of other ideas. We thought that was the right way to deal with...
...follow anatomical form, then natural selection has nothing to work upon to produce legs from fins. That article presented more evidence of the grip that evolution has on the mind of scientists than it did for the theory. Jeff Prather Diamond Springs, California, U.S. The fishapod article and accompanying Viewpoint used straw-man arguments in an attempt to discredit intelligent design and creationism. They even went so far as to insinuate that without a belief in amoebas-to-man evolution, we are doomed to succumb to a pandemic. Nonsense! One doesn't need to believe in unobservable and unrepeatable macroevolution...
...from the Ooze Michael J. Novacek's viewpoint [April 17] sustains the old-fashioned belief that biological evolution is incompatible with the idea of a Creator. There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why could there not be a God who brought life into being and gave it the ability to evolve by what we call natural selection? Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye Purley, England...