[antiRepublicrat]

but it seems to me that Avalos and others expected some outcome from their petition.

I'm sure they hoped for one. Universities usually don't like being publicly connected to pseudoscience (Baylor and Marks in the movie, but he still has his job), and the professors will usually try to stop it. It doesn't look good to be a serious scientists and go to conventions where the others laugh "So you're from that Intelligent Design university."

[jwalsh07]

I'm sure they hoped for one. Universities usually don't like being publicly connected to pseudoscience (Baylor and Marks in the movie, but he still has his job), and the professors will usually try to stop it. It doesn't look good to be a serious scientists and go to conventions where the others laugh "So you're from that Intelligent Design university."

And yet they use Jackie the Jokemans text in their classes.

Go figure.

[AndrewC]

Universities usually don't like being publicly connected to pseudoscience (Baylor and Marks in the movie, but he still has his job)

Well, Baylor did have The Michael Polanyi Center for a while, at the instigation of Baylor's president. This was separated from the "scientific" portions of the university but that was not far enough away from some. So a fight ensued. We know the result. Of course, that was not based upon any tenure decision. And I am not changing the subject. You mentioned Baylor.