Word: rejections
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...horrified to realize that my monthly stipend check is funded by weapons manufacturers. Why must we profit from violence, even as we pretend to reject...
Second, the Court could reject Bakke and hold that promoting diversity is not a compelling interest. None of the Michigan policies would be constitutional in this scenario. And, depending on the breadth of the Court’s reasoning, other types of affirmative action policies, such as voluntary desegregation in K-12 education or affirmative action in government employment, could also be placed at risk. Prior Supreme Court cases hold that an institution’s goal of remedying the effects of its own discrimination is a compelling interest; if the Court goes so far as to rule that...
...make no apology for those who blindly reject scientific evidence due to contrived religious doctrines; I have equally little tolerance for those who ignore scientific evidence to prop up a naturalistic anti-religious dogma...
Scientific innovations originate outside the dominant paradigm—demanding orthodoxy invites stagnation. Scientists who question evolution, like Intelligent Design theorists, do not reject evolution entirely, but argue that evidence supports a limited explanatory role. Faithful Darwinists, however, like Teilhard de Chardin, insist that evolution is “a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforth...
...must refuse to bow to our culture’s false idols. Science will not benefit from canonizing Darwin or making evolution an article of secular faith. We must reject intellectual excommunication as a valid form of dealing with criticism: the most important question for any society to ask is the one that is forbidden...