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Published online 5 March 2008 | Nature 452, 17 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452017a

Column: Party of One

The scientist delusion

Religious resistance to science is often exaggerated, but fresh problems may lie ahead, says David Goldston.

Cosmologist Rocky Kolb began a public lecture last month with a slide amusingly titled "The View of Cosmology 1,000 Years Ago (and In Present-Day Kansas)". The joke, a reference to recent battles over teaching evolution in the state of Kansas, was telling.

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