Posted on 04/06/2006 1:44:19 AM PDT by goldstategop
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Football school? When was the last time Baylor had a decent team?
That's to distract you from the the Intelligent Design claims.
LOL! I wasn't distracted. It's good to see intelligent design take another beating.
If your faith belief is that pixies hold up airplanes, should you get tenure in aeronautic engineering? NO
If your faith belief is that tuberculosis is caused not by a bacillus, but by a satan-inspired imp, should you get tenure in the medical school? NO
If your faith belief is that earth is 4000 years old, should you get tenure in geology? NO
A faith belief cannot substitute for real knowledge. A faith belief in "ID" is like unto the above. Pixies did it or god did it---neither is science. Nobody has a right to tenure--it has to be earned. Wackos unable to understand magnetism, calculus, germ theory of disease, evolution need not apply.
First it'll be "intelligent design", next thing you know they'll forbid sphagetti in the dining hall because it would offend the Flying Sphagetti Monster (blessed be his noodly appendages).
Baylor ping, Louie
Keep in mind that while your comments may be true at, say, UCBerkeley, Baylor is a Christian university, and a Baptist one at that. Dr. Sloan's choices, and Dr. Beckwith's teaching, are consistent with the Baptist theology. Should their religion professors also be fired because non-Christian, non-Baptists do not believe in the Almighty? (I notice your caps work for everything but "god," which shows me your bias at the outset.)
Caveat: I'm a Christian, a Baptist, and a Baylor graduate.
"Seems" to be? He's not sure? The author "seems" awfully tentative and speculative about the actual reasons for Beckworth's denial of tenure, as if he's stating his presumption but doesn't actually have specific evidence that that was indeed the reason.
If so, his entire long rant is way out of line, if indeed it's based on what he *thinks* the reason *might* be for Beckworth's failure to be awarded tenure. And I don't see anything else in this editorial which clarifies the matter.
In any case, though, any educator who puts for a "defense of the teaching of 'intelligent design'", if that's what Beckworth actually did, does indeed raise red flags about his suitability, because at this point 'intelligent design' is an empty shell as devoid of real research findings as, say, astrology. There's nothing *to* actually teach on the subject, despite hundreds of years of searching for positive results on that topic. I've challenged countless "ID fans" to describe what an "ID curriculum" would actually consists of (and I'm not the only one), and no one's managed to step up to the plate yet.
And no, posing "questions" about evolutionary biology is not "teaching ID", any more than questioning chemistry is "teaching alchemy".
They had a decent season this past year...but hardly know as a power football program...there basketball team got noterioty because of a murder by a player
Teachings consistent with Baptist theology are fine, of course. Teaching something *as* science when it isn't, however, is not, nor is bearing false witness in that matter "consistent with the Baptist theology".
Should their religion professors also be fired because non-Christian, non-Baptists do not believe in the Almighty?
No, nor is that actually the case with Beckwith.
"If your faith belief is that pixies hold up airplanes, should you get tenure in aeronautic engineering? NO"
And he beleives this? Do you have a source?
"Wackos unable to understand magnetism, calculus, germ theory of disease, evolution need not apply."
So you're saying he an ignorant slug who can't add?
When I was in grade school and in science class I couldn't understand how someone could be jailed for saying the earth wasnt the center of the universe. It was just beyond me.
I still don't understand. The radical left controls our schools. If you lie about your minority status to get hired and plagerize many of your publications you can stay tenured as long as you are a leftie (Churchhill). If you question the farce that evolution is you cannot despite any other credentials.
Darwin was a rebel who was running away from his Dad. he spent 30 days writing a book which the left uses as their Bible. Lefties worship Darwin as a god. Science is worshipped as a religion.
And thats fine if it makes you happy, but don't knock my God. And don't persecute me for my beliefs.
Please. And Evolution has real basis. We've seen limited mutations, not anything on the scale that would bring us from single celled life to something as complex as human beings within the span that "geology" says we have. Even some proponents of evolution get this and they're trying to figure out a way. When you get most of your "evolution" pieces in place and can show us the development all they way up through the chain, then maybe you can say that's the only "scientific" explanation. Until then, give us a break. How many times has science been wrong before? Law of entropy is still in effect. You can't go from the simple to the complex without something - or someone- playing with it.
OH! and Mr. Reporter...Baylor has GREAT basketball, tennis, baseball, softball, golf, etc. which have received more accolades than the football team.
Kinda hard to do when your professors are pushing pseudo-science. If the above is still their goal, it was a good move to get rid of him.
That was my first reaction. "Best known for its football team..." !!???
Must have been a lame attempt at sarcasm.
I just haven't seen any proof so I a find this more scientific than thou pontificating to be rather dishonest.
It's a "football school" only in contrast to its' scholarship...
Baylor is a Women's Basketball school.
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