Elaine Howard Ecklund

Elaine Howard Ecklund is an assistant professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Ecklund is the Principal Investigator for the study of Religion Among Academic Scientists, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Her first book, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. In 2007 she was the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation to examine Perceptions of Women in Science.

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Beyond The God Delusion

The university classroom has become a battleground in the science and religion wars. In a controversial 2005 state of the university address Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings stated, “Religiously-based opposition to evolution . . . raises profound questions about . . . what we teach in universities and it has a profound effect on public policy.” The growing controversy over the role of religion in higher education led me to ask how top university scientists think they ought to respond to religiously based challenges to science. [...]

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