When we stop sticking to our founding principles and let our institutions become the equivalent of "living documents" we can lose everything we fought for. Institutional terrorism may be worse than other kinds in the long run.
Harvard and Yale were originally founded as explicitly Christian institutions and look at them now. Institutional terrorism happens everywhere. We now have the US Congress trying to blackmail and intimidate a private company into quenching free speech, in trying to silence Rush Limbaugh.
It never stops. When you see institutional terrorism happening at little places like Baylor, fight it, Americans, fight it. But remember that it happens everywhere, even in our own government. We can lose not only our colleges but also our country if we do not stick to our original basic principles and to the original contracts we all agreed to, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, all acknowledging our unalienable rights under God.
Baylor manages to be involved in controversy on a regular basis and the infighting and sniping among the administration, regents and alumni are in the paper on a weekly basis. They don’t see this as terrorism, but rather as a matter of somebody not conforming and it’s their job to show him the error of his ways.
Let’s see—Baylor is a BAPTIST university—Southern Baptist, that is. Sourthern Baptists don’t believe in ID. If you want something other that what Baylor teaches, go somewhere else, and STFU!
My four children are graduates of Baylor. The liberals have taken over the school. They will get no support from me!
I consider “intelligent design” non-science, and its pursuers misguided at best. However, if this account is even partially true, it is outrageous.
The reason for this is that ID is religious belief masquerading as science; on close examination the science evaporates and all you are left with is belief.
The whole sordid scheme is laid out in the Wedge Strategy.
There is even more detail in Dembski's Mere Creation. Here's a tidbit from Dembski's "Introduction" (p. 29):
Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall. To lift this pall will require a new generation of scholars and professionals who explicitly reject naturalism and consciously seek to understand the design God has placed in the world (see Bruce Chapman’s postscript in this volume). Theologians will have the task of taking up all these developments, formulating a coherent theology of nature that makes sense not only of God creating, sustaining and acting in the world but also of God incarnating himself in Jesus Christ.(Hint: there is a lot of creation, faith and intelligent design, but no science to speak of in this book. It's the Wedge Strategy on steroids! What a joke! ID is clearly exposed as "mere religion.")
The once Southern Baptist Institution of Baylor University has fallen into the hands of Secular Liberals and has seceded from Baptist control.
"That God is dead," replied Prof. Huxley.
Needless to say, the University, acting upon the recommendation of the Department Chair, has terminated Huzley's internet privileges and closed his web site.
I don’t know the full story, by any means. But Baylor has seen a LOT of academic infighting. And I was told on good authority from someone who is an insider there, a couple of years ago, that Baylor managed to cut itself loose from Baptist governance. They don’t answer to anyone, I don’t believe.
As for their repeated attacks on intelligent design, there’s nothing Baptist about it. Their position is more properly described as Darwinian. Which is rather odd, in my view.
Interesting, Marks leaves the University of Washington (the one
that has “Red Square”)...
then comes to a church-affiliated university...where he gets squelched.
It almost sounds like the dean of Mark’s department thinks “Ph.D. only means
‘Doctor of Philosophy’...as long as it’s the dean’s philosophy”.
It really isn’t his web site, is it? It belongs to the university and they have the final say as to what gets posted on the site that they pay for. He can go out and spend his own money and buy his own site instead of freeloading off the university. I have no sympathy for this nut.
Free Dr. Marks