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Religion: Faith in science

Nature volume 470, pages 323–325 (2011)Cite this article

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The Templeton Foundation claims to be a friend of science. So why does it make so many researchers uneasy?

At the headquarters of the John Templeton Foundation, a dozen kilometres outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the late billionaire seems to watch over everything. John Templeton's larger-than-life bust stands at one end of the main conference room. His life-sized portrait smiles down from a side wall. His face peers out of framed snapshots propped on bookshelves throughout the many offices.

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M. Mitchell Waldrop is an editor for Nature in Washington DC.

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