[narby]

There was a very good reply earlier about someone who taught "holocaust denial" would be quickly sacked. I think a professor teaching "evolution denial" is in just about the same boat. There's just too much evidence that both the holocaust and evolution occured. There can be innumerable arguments on details of both. And there's plenty of room in evolution for God. But to reject evolution as a principle is just laughable.

[VOA]

There's just too much evidence that both the holocaust and evolution occured.
There can be innumerable arguments on details of both. And there's plenty of room
in evolution for God. But to reject evolution as a principle is just laughable.

I'm generally operating along the same lines.
My zingers were directed to the human foibles of professors...and the sometimes
very glaring hypocrisy of "the academy".

Don't get me wrong...American univerisities/colleges are the greatest in the
world, or at the least in the first rank. But like anything in the USA...
they are improved when folks have the freedom to point and laugh at the "fig leaf"
they occassionally have to clutch...

[ml/nj]

But to reject evolution as a principle is just laughable.

I always wonder what sort of scientific credentials people have who make silly statements such as this. (FTR the record I have Math degrees, and high test scores.)

Now that I am over 50, it has become my habit to visit a couple of major universities on an annual basis; and to prepare for an sit in on lots of classes for a few days each visit. This past fall I sat in on an Evolution class. After the class I had a discussion with the professor, and he had no answer for my questions. (You should have seen the expression on the face of the student who listened to our conversation!) Anyone who doesn't acknowledge huge problems with Darwinian evolution is either being simplistic or dishonest.

ML/NJ