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.
He was undoubtedly a scientist, and apparently a good one, like thousands of forgotten individuals before or since. He overcame remarkable obstacles to get where he was (but on the other hand, I tell my students "No one wants to know how hard it was or how long it took"). But the rest of the stuff surrounding him appears to this observer very much like Black-History-Month-style racial tokenism, something I find patronizing and offensive.
Perhaps his admirers might consider being a little more skeptical. And in any case all this is rather off topic.
Of sourse we don't seem to know what she said. LOL Why can't people in college have the same discussions we can here? And why do evolution discussions have to be lead by biologists?
You have no idea what my work time is. But I see if you can't get at the ideas, attacking the man is a good second.
Following are some of George Washington Carver's contributions from the sweet potato and peanut alone (as Mr. Carver would say, it pleased God to show him):
A Listing Of Products Developed from the Peanut by Dr. Carver:
George Washington Carver Foundation, Tuskegee Institute (University)
Foods: salted peanuts, breakfast foods #1-5, bisque powder, peanut meal #1-2, chocolate coated peanuts, peanut cake #1-2, dry coffee, instant coffee, peanut hearts, mock oysters, worcestershire sauce, peanut food #1, peanut sprouts, peanut tofu sauce, cream from milk, buttermilk, milks (numbering 32), curds, vinegar, crystallized peanuts, peanut relish #1-2, peanut chocolate fudge, peanut and popcorn bars, peanut bar #1, peanut tutti-frutti bars, lard compound, sweet pickle, cheese cream, cheese pimento, cheese tutti-frutti, white pepper (from the vines), cocoa, peanut kisses, peanut wafers, peanut butter (numbering 3), butter from peanut milk, pancake flour (numbering 11), peanut surprise, malted peanuts, peanut meal, meat substitute, chili sauce, peanut brittle, cream candy, peanut flakes (numbering 2), chop suey sauce, mayonnaise, peanut meat loaf, shredded peanuts, cooking oil, salad oil, mock meat, mock veal cutlet, mock chicken, mock duck, mock goose, peanut sausage, flavoring paste, oleomargarine, dehydrated milk flakes, caramel, butterscotch, evaporated milk, golden nuts, substitute asparagus, cheese nut sage, cheese sandwich, plain pickle, peanut dainties, bar candy.
Stock Foods: peanut stock foods #1-3, peanut hull stock food, peanut hull bran, hen food, peanut hull meal, molasses feed, peanut hay meal, peanut meal (numbering 3).
Beverages: peanut orange punch #1-2, normal peanut beverage, plum punch, cherry punch, peanut lemon punch, peanut punch #2, beverage for ice cream, blackberry punch, evaporated peanut beverage, pineapple punch.
Medicines: rubbing oil, tanic acid, emulsion for bronchitis, castor oil substitute, iron tonic, goiter treatment, quinine, laxatives.
Cosmetics: hand lotion, face cream, face bleach and tan remover, shampoo, shaving cream, face ointment, face powder, fat producing cream, toilet soap, pomade for skin, face lotion, vanishing cream, oil for hair and scalp, pomade for scalp, glycerine, all purpose cream, dandruff cure, and antiseptic soap.
Household Products: laundry soap and sweeping compound.
Dyes, Paints, and Stains: leather dyes (numbering 18), wood stains (numbering 17), special peanut dye, dyes for cloth (numbering 30), and paint.
General: fuel bricks, colored paper (from skins), newsprint paper (from vines), insecticide, gasoline, wood filler, plastics, lubricating oil, diesel fuel, writing ink, furnace coke (from hulls), white paper (from vines), paper (from hulls), coarse paper (from skins), glue, gas, metal polish, axle grease, illuminating oil, printers' ink, rubber, washing powder, hand cleanser, wall boards (from hull, numbering 11), sizing for walls, nitroglycerine, soap stock, linoleum, insulating boards (numbering 18), charcoal (from shells), soil conditioner, and shoe and leather backing.
A Listing Of Products Developed from the Sweet Potato by Dr. Carver:
George Washington Carver Foundation, Tuskegee Institute (University)
Foods: flour (numbering 4), sugar, mock coconut, vinegar, synthetic ginger, chocolate, dry paste, bisque powder, meal (numbering 4), yeast, instant coffee, lemon drops, sauce, starch (numbering 4), molasses, tapioca, egg yolk, candy (numbering 14), dried potatoes #1-2, potato nibs, breakfast foods (numbering 5), after dinner mints #1-3, dry coffee, granulated potatoes, orange drops, and spiced vinegar.
Livestock Foods: stock feed meal (numbering 3) and hog feed.
General: stains, paints, library paste (numbering 5), rubber compounds, shoe blacking, synthetic cotton, paper (from vines), dyes (numbering 73), medicine, alcohol, writing ink, fillers for wood (numbering 14), and synthetic silk.
Was this really your first clue that science doesn't do proofs? Did you think you were in geometry class?
Well thank God it is a free country and you are welcome to do so.
Oops sorry.
How about, Thank the earth below that this is a free country and you are welcome to do so.
However you are missing the point about Christianity PW, it is not a religion as you would like to think of it. Not nearly so much as evolution or communism, where dissension leads to banishment, punishment or death. In spite of the fact that Lee and I disagree on evolution, we do agree that Jesus Christ did come to earth in the form of a man and died for our sins. We are not worthy of his sacrifice and there is nothing we can do to earn it. It is a free gift and you can either take or leave it. We choose to accept it you choose to reject it. So be it, only time will tell who made the right choice. As far as religion goes I don't really have any use for it either. Best of luck to you.
Best Regards,
Boiler Plate
Peanut butter. </sarcasm>
You know, I'd find more skepticism about Carver in our Ethnic Studies Department. You guys really are a poor imitation of conservatives. Do y'all believe that civilization arose in Africa, and was stolen by the Greeks? What other big chunks of multiculturalist propaganda have you swallowed whole?
As for 'the Chemists' Chemist', you're kidding, right? Someone wrote that? Can you give me the cite?
As I've said elsewhere, from what I've read, the guy was probably a fair applied chemist, by the standards of his time; and it is remarkable he overcame birth into slavery so to become. But sheesh!
The Ford pinto and F-150 also point to the Model T, but that doesn't mean the Model T evolved.
Regards,
Boiler Plate
And so on. Give me a break.
He serves, apparently, to prove I'm not acceptably politically correct. Creationists never cease to amaze me. I think I've seen it all, and then they pull this kewl Al Sharpton imitation.
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