Posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:08 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
Mirecki hospitalized after beating
By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact)
Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists.
Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the headlines in recent weeks. Mirecki
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“I didn’t know them, but I’m sure they knew me,” he said.
Mirecki said he was driving to breakfast when he noticed the men tailgating him in a pickup truck.
“I just pulled over hoping they would pass, and then they pulled up real close behind,” he said. “They got out, and I made the mistake of getting out.”
He said the men beat him about the upper body with their fists, and he said he thinks they struck him with a metal object. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
“I’m mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots,” he said.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn’t say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation
The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.
Mirecki recently wrote online that he planned to teach intelligent design as mythology in an upcoming course. He wrote it would be a “nice slap” in the “big fat face” of fundamentalists.
The remarks caused an uproar, Mirecki apologized, and KU announced last week the class would be canceled.
reel me in. I swallowed the hook. ;-)
For the the time being I would simply like to know why you and your cheerleaders have refrained from criticizing this loopy professor for setting up a class dedicated toward the ridicule of people with different beliefs.
If you can't see the difference between making fun of people and beating them up, then we can't help you.
If you can't see the connection between making fun of people and getting beaten up then we can't help you, either.
Oh, great, now are the posting Nazis not only judging what is written, but what is not written.
Well let me get to that, because I have been really T.O.-ed at the "defenders of science" on the crevo threads. But when scientists make total asses of themselves, when science is perverted, when science is misused, or abused, they are nowhere to be found:
When textbooks read like manifestos and respected scientists tarnish the profession with their tarnished professions, there's nary a peep.
But when somebody, somewhere suggests that maybe there might be a hole or two in the theories to which many scientists cling to like a security blanket, well here comes the descending chorus.
Well, if evo is taught in the high schools, junior high schools or elementary schools in any way like earth science is taught by the textbook in the second link, then it is nothing more than religious dogma that is "taught" without any critical analysis or means by which the students can assess the claims.
If scientists care, really care, about science, then they should focus their energies on individuals who practice the art and who claim ownership of the scientific method for their pronouncements. Instead of merely treating ID like a member of the humanities (I contend that there is much more solid ID scholarship than virtually all of the humanities and social sciences. Of course, I think there is more scholarship at DeVry than in the humanities and social sciences.), they eagerly pounce upon it with a fury that has not been seen since the times of Galileo.
But I suppose attacks against science only matter when your grant dollars are at risk.
So, yes, I am willing to hold posters responsible for what they refuse to say.
But back to the case at hand: What beating?
Possibly, all the creationists simply suport #461.
Clearly none find it offensive.
Spare me the self-gratifying self-righteousness, thou holy one. Tell me what the proper reaction should be to a professor who establishes a class dedicated to the ridicule of other people's beliefs.
Don't you ever read your links? Your link to the textbook complaints belies your statements.
There.
Would you like my comment on all of the other 688 posts, too?
And Tookie should get the needle, but I want the last thing for him to hear is his ridiculous book being read aloud by Fran Drescher.
Not an ounce of which has been forthcoming from you and your cheerleaders.
I don't need lessons in morality from someone who can't find it in himself to condemn an Eric Rudolph.
Far be it from me to engage in teaching morality to mules that equate terrorism with pugilsm.
Can't do it. Eighth Amendment violation.
Is the book cruel and Fran unusual or is it vice versa?
masochistic bookmark
Didn't see this (and [Vanity] usually means I won't) but let's look at post number 4 on the thread.
I wouldn't let my children by taught by an atheist. This is what you get.
So I would likely have agreed with much of the criticism, but there is no way I'm going to let a piece of bigotry like that slide, so we would have had a food fight instead.
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