In the New York Times, a Bizarre Non Sequitur About Skepticism on Evolution

Check out this gratuitous and just bizarre reference to academic freedom and evolution in a New York Times article about religion-based arbitration. It concerns a young man, Nicklaus Ellison, who tragically died of a toxic drug combination after going to live in a Christian substance-abuse treatment center. The article is long and interesting and has nothing to do with evolution. Yet note the sentence in bold:

Like his mother, Mr. Ellison was a committed Christian, but he was never comfortab...