Creationists to convene at major research university
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028373
Science : Creation Summit, a nonprofit Christian group that believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible, will hold its Origins Summit on 1 November at Michigan State University. The conference venue was booked through a campus student group. Among the sessions listed in the summit’s program are ones devoted to why the Big Bang is fake, how evolutionary theory shaped Adolf Hitler’s worldview, and why natural selection is not evolution. Michigan State is the academic home of several prominent evolutionary biologists, including Robert Pennock, whose testimony played a role in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, a 2005 case that led to a ban on teaching intelligent design in public schools. Citing the right to free speech, university authorities have said they do not intend to interfere with the summit.
