CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.

The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years. The project begins with an admission that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.

"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention," said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard. [Washington Times]

Well, it's good to see they're going to make an unbiased attempt to discover the origins of the universe. More evidence that scientists do, indeed, begin with a prior philosophic commitment (usually to naturalism).

I wonder what Reverend John Harvard would think of the Christian institution he founded.

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