Posted on 03/11/2003 3:01:59 PM PST by Remedy
A university professor said she was asked to resign for introducing elite students to flaws in Darwinian thought, and she now says academic freedom at her school is just a charade.
During a recent honors forum at Mississippi University for Women (MUW), Dr. Nancy Bryson gave a presentation titled "Critical Thinking on Evolution" -- which covered alternate views to evolution such as intelligent design. Bryson said that following the presentation, a senior professor of biology told her she was unqualified and not a professional biologist, and said her presentation was "religion masquerading as science."
The next day, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Vagn Hansen asked Bryson to resign from her position as head of the school's Division of Science and Mathematics.
"The academy is all about free thought and academic freedom. He hadn't even heard my talk," Bryson told American Family Radio News. "[W]ithout knowing anything about my talk, he makes that decision. I think it's just really an outrage."
Bryson believes she was punished for challenging evolutionary thought and said she hopes her dismissal will smooth the way for more campus debate on the theory of evolution. University counsel Perry Sansing said MUW will not comment on why Bryson was asked to resign because it is a personnel matter.
"The best reaction," Bryson says, "and the most encouraging reaction I have received has been from the students." She added that the students who have heard the talk, "They have been so enthusiastically supportive of me."
Bryson has contacted the American Family Association Center for Law and Policy and is considering taking legal action against the school.
Nothing is an issue for creationists except that, in making worlds, God is not allowed to use a lot of time, common descent of organisms, mutation, or natural selection.
The word "wrong" is cryptic? Why should I be required to provide support? "We would fly off the earth", or "tunicate and vertebrate genome relationships point to a common ancestor 550 million years ago" (paraphrased) do not have support. But here is the second law.-- dS = dq(rev)/T
And this
"SIR: I am referring to the article entitled 'Physical Chemistry,' C&EN, June 2, page 20. Toward the end of the article is stated: 'Another area where physical chemistry likely has important biological applications is the study of the properties of steady states far from equilibrium. These are stable systems that do not follow the second law of thermodynamics; instead they require a continual supply of energy from outside the system to maintain themselves.'
Please be advised that there are no known violations of the second law of thermodynamics. Ordinarily the second law is stated for isolated systems, but the second law applies equally well to open systems.
I recognize that it is very difficult to write an article on as broad a subject as physical chemistry in two pages, and ordinarily I would not bother to point out minor errors. However, there is somehow associated with the field of far-from-equilibrium phenomena the notion that the second law of thermodynamics fails for such systems. It is important to make sure that this error does not perpetuate itself.
Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University"John Ross
Substantiated elsewhere in the thread. Laziness on your part does not equate to an unsubstantiated assertion on mine.
Repeating myself here: go to google. Type in the three words evolution paradigm biology. Pick the first few references. Particularly concentrate on the ones involving biology undergraduate courses. Get back to me.
The fact that the moon is not made of green cheese has been 'observed'. Macro Evolution has not, hence 'theory'.
Now, Andrew, you really should know better. All you had to do was ask .
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD---the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Evolution...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc/liberal/govt-religion/rhetoric)...
Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 LIBERAL NEO-Soviet Darwin/ACLU America---the post-modern age of switch-flip-spin-DEFORMITY-cancer...Atheist secular materialists Darwinst BLATHER // BRAINWASHING // INDOCTRINATION --- proselytization !
Main Entry: pros·e·ly·tize
Pronunciation: 'prä-s(&-)l&-"tIz
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -tized; -tiz·ing
Date: 1679
intransitive senses
1 : to induce someone to convert to one's faith
2 : to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause
transitive senses : to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause
- pros·e·ly·ti·za·tion /"prä-s(&-)l&-t&-'zA-sh&n, "prä-s&-"lI-t&-/ noun
- pros·e·ly·tiz·er /'prä-s(&-)l&-"tI-z&r/ noun
Proof? What kind of proof do you want? After all, you do realize, you are not getting proof in science. You will get evidence that leads to a conclusion. I just want to make sure, I hate to write pages and pages of stuff only to have someone move to goalposts to left field.
It's simple. Creationism is a dying theory. Compared to the 1830's and before, there ratio of creationists to non-creationists has dropped rapidly and has stayed consistently low. On the theoretical front, there hasn't been a theory that has been shown to have a shred of evidence in its favor since before Louis Agassiz. The fields of Geophysics and Geology, Biology and Paleontology, and Astronomy and Cosmolgy have grown by leaps and bounds in that very same period of time. Even the theory of Intelligent Design, now a pet theory for a number of Old Earth Creationists, still hasn't been able to form a scientific theory that which experiments can be based on. As I said, it is wishful thinking if you think anything else. Instead, Creationists are forced to plead their cases to corrupt politicians to try to force to have their work taught in school.
Dakmar...
I took a few minutes to decipher that post, and I must say I agree with a lot of what you said.
fC...
These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Dakmar...
Where you and I diverge is on the Evolution/Communism thing. You seem to view Darwin and evolution as the beginning of the end for enlighted, moral civilization, while I think Marx, class struggle, and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" are the true dangers.
God bless you, I think we both have a common enemy in the BRAVE-NWO.
452 posted on 9/7/02 8:54 PM Pacific by Dakmar
Thinkplease ... coven master // evo overlords !
Ah, so calling someone a 'twit' must be your way of promoting peace.
Well, let me extend the hand of peace to you. You are a twit.
Have a nice day.
That is a twisting of the facts. Those who dare teach anything contrary to Darwinism are forced out. That is what this thread is about.
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