Good stuff.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think there's definitely a stigma attached to looking at alternatives to evolution. Someone had better have a slam dunk evidence that crushes the theory in one fell swoop to receive the acclaim they're saying. Anything less, they'll look like they have an agenda. In Ben Stein's little documentary there were people that said they had their grants taken away for even mentioning certain possibilities. People that supposedly weren't religious at all. Do I buy that there's a huge conspiracy? Not at all. Avoiding a professor with an agenda is probably smart. But I think it does squash some honest inquiry before it gets started.
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