My main objection to this guy is his childish and perverse glee in trashing those who question Darwin's theory, which include many nonfundamentalist Christians. His simple-minded hostility towards Christianity is unworthy of a chair of a Department of Religious Studies, imho.
Most atheists seem to be fundamentalists, and this Kansas prof seems to fit the bill.
He appears to be quite aware of the PC rules. Isn't it funny how "freethinkers" all think the same way? You'd think all that "freedom" would create a great diversity of thought. ;-)
nonfundamentalist Christians
...And...
All Muslims
All Scientologists
All Moonies
...But does not include...
Almost all (if any) Biologists
Almost all Catholics
Almost all Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc
..His simple-minded hostility towards Christianity..
What hostility toward Christianity? The hostility in his e-mail was directed at "fundies" - I suspect that he includes Muslims in this category.
Granted, at the present time in Kansas it's primarily the Christian creationists and their ID catspaws who are threatening the integrity of science education, although even they have called on a Turkish Muslim and the Discovery Institute (which I believe has ties to the Moonies, but I'm not 100% sure) for assistance.
If this professor were in Turkey, and had the b@lls, he'd be denounced as an enemy of Islam.
AFAIK, it is already illegal to teach evolution in Iran and Saudi Arabia.