We've touched on the topic before (I was impressed from that discussion by the range of work supported by the Templeton Foundation), but this engineering professor takes a highly skeptical view. Thoughts from readers? (Thanks to Peter Carruthers for the pointer.) Only comments with a full name in the first line and a valid e-mail address will appear.
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