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To: Sopater
I'm a bit confused. Why was this necessary? Are there science professors there teaching creationism? Or is this just being done to make a point?

There are some rather strange theories taught under the aegis of such "disciplines" as women's studies, but no such prohibitions in those areas seem to be forthcoming.

20 posted on 10/07/2005 7:57:16 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
Are there science professors there teaching creationism?

There is political pressure being applied from some quarters to force them to do so.

35 posted on 10/07/2005 8:18:53 AM PDT by narby
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To: B Knotts
I'm a bit confused. Why was this necessary? Are there science professors there teaching creationism? Or is this just being done to make a point?

The point is tha tthe ID people don't want to stop at highschool biology classes. They want ID to be the main framework for understanding our universe because it is compatible with creationsism. They want that to replace all of science with a Christian world view that offers room for supernatural events. To them, biology is the low hanging fruit. Physics and chemistry are next. Physics because it teaches the universe is billions of years old and there was an explosion of space that we can trace the universe's history back to. It also teaches nuclear theory used by various radiometric dating methods so that has to go. Basic chemical principles have to be erased because they define how biochemistry, a link in evolution, works.

On a broader scale, all of science needs to be reworded because science does not permit 'God did it' as an objective explanation for observations. THe universities are seeing the writing on the wall and are preparing defenses against the corruption of science by the religious right.

89 posted on 10/07/2005 9:25:35 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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