Wow, Tim. This is what being a President of a University is all about - telling what will and will not ever be spoken about within science classrooms. Re-education camps ... does anyone recall what those were?
> Re-education camps ... does anyone recall what those were?
Yup. Places where superstition was taught instead of science. Thus Tim is fighting agaisnt turning his school into such a camp.
Go Tim!
Is there and unfortunate pun in "... forbidding anything other than evolution from being taught in the Moscow school's life, earth and physical science classes."? Or have I pushed the definition of 'pun' too far?
It's interesting that "academic freedom" only seems to apply to the leftist agenda. I wonder what the University President could do if a tenured science professor told him to go fish?
"Professor, please explain the evolution of sight and how the eye, optic nerve, and sight center of the brain all conveniently developed at the same time, even though none of them had any use without the other two."
This is no surprise, one minute on the evolution threads make it clear who reigns supreme over origin of the species.
Higher Learning in America mired in dogma....
ping time?
I back this university professor whole heartedly. It's about time univeristies start standing up for the integrity of their science departments and to keep the ID nonsense out of places it does not belong. It is philosophy at best, but has absolutely no credibilty as science. If it is taught as science, it will only confuse what is the meaning of science and will denigrate all scientific disciplines. The bar has to be lowered to accept ID as science and creationists are trying to do it through intellectual affermative action. The creatisonsts and IDer's only want to keep people ignorant.
Just an FYI ping.
Only people with things to hide behave the way evolutionists do.
"University of Idaho President Tim White has entered the debate pitting Charles Darwin's theories of life against religious-based alternatives by forbidding anything other than evolution from being taught in the Moscow school's life, earth and physical science classes."A couple of weeks ago I heard someone say on NPR (of all places) that some day evolutionists such as this will be viewed the way we view doctrinaire Marxists today.
Cordially,
"This (evolution) is the only curriculum that is appropriate to be taught in our biophysical sciences," he wrote. "Teaching of views that differ from evolution may occur in faculty-approved curricula in religion, sociology, philosophy, political science or similar courses. However, teaching of such views is inappropriate in our life, earth, and physical science courses."
If he somehow thought this would stem the increasing openess of many towards a view not in keeping with the current scientific paradigm of totally materialistic evolutionary thought, he has made a strategic mistake. It would have been wiser to remain silent. He just threw down a big gauntlet. I will be curious to see how this plays out politically.