If a college writing teacher behaves in such a manner you get a good idea as to their general thinking skills.
***Exactly. And it is these people who teach our kids about science and evolution. The issue before us is whether they should be teaching ID, and a side issue to that is that they don't seem competent to be teaching in the first place.
Change classes, adjust responses to fit need (to be a martyr or to get out with a good grade) and complain when you are safe or ready to go down with your ship..
***Very well put. My response at the time was full of cowardice, I decided to get out with a good grade. Now I am "complaining when I am safe. " I may have as much impact on policy as she did. When teachers overreach their authority, they're wrong. I see evolution as a philosophy based upon science. It is more suitable for a philosophy class, where ID could be taught as well, and astrology too, if it has enough basis. At this point I don't see the harm of teaching them side by side.
First of all, it's not cowardice to keep your eye on the ball. You have more influence with your degree than as a flunk-out because of a nutty prof.
I had my share and so did my sons. Only one time was a moral principal involved and speaking out required. All the rest were various forms of nuttiness, intolerance or nastiness.
I am bothered though that you seem to equate this writing prof with a biology prof. As a rule Science departments are far less idiosyncratic and one simply doesn't get away with teaching inappropiate material. This does not include fuzzy studies semi-sciences where anything goes.
Your college profs may have had power, but their authority has to be earned and demonstrated.
I am sorry that you do not seem (emphasis "seem") to have enough biology background. At a certain point, say after at least one class beyond basic college biology for science majors, it becomes clear that the foundations of the theory of evolution are quite solid.