Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) support of Intelligent Design?
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“The committee found that the candidates were qualified. However, it judged the proposal did not adequately substantiate the premise that the popularizing of Intelligent Design Theory had detrimental effects on Canadian students, teachers, parents and policymakers. Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design Theory, was correct. It was not convinced, therefore, that research based on these assumptions would yield objective results.”
Memorial University’s Larry Felt, one of the panelists who reviewed Dr Alters’ application, told Canwest that while he doesn’t dispute the theory of evolution, there are aspects of the natural world that “evolution has some trouble accounting for.” Felt went on to suggest “the possibility of a synthesis” of evolution and Intelligent Design that “compels scholars to take an open mind,” as opposed to the k