Why do you say it was underhanded? It did not involve changing any science department. It was fulfilling the wishes of an already established unit of Baylor. Baylor does not have to ask the assembled professors or senate whether Baylor can create an entity outside of the departments of those professors. The president and those in the IFL evidently had the power to do what was done. If anybody had a say about the actions of the president it would have been the Board of Regents. They are not the faculty.
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I don't trust Dembski. He was in on the Dover circus
Well that is your opinion, but the Dover controversy was not his doing.
Speaking of the clip, I saw the clip in the movie and it is not the clip that Harvard has. The computer generated scenes are not the same, but they have some similar elements. Premise media, who made the film is putting its money where its mouth is.
On April 14, 2008, Premise Media filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking declaratory judgment that there is no copyright or other infringement. Premise Media also seeks its attorneys’ fees in responding to the XVIVO claims.
That being said, Yoko Ono is suing Premise because she alleges that they used the song "Imagine" without gaining permission. That should be interesting.
Nobody was notified that the center was being created and Dembski and his colleague were hired without consult. Isn't it kind of strange the faculty first learned of it when the web site went up?
The president and those in the IFL evidently had the power to do what was done.
As far as I know, the IFL wasn't part of it. The president wanted to create a vehicle specifically for Dembski's work.
If anybody had a say about the actions of the president it would have been the Board of Regents.
A president of a university generally wants to keep the faculty happy. Without faculty, you have no university. Well, unless you want to be one of those religious diploma mills that gave Kent Hovind, Carl Baugh and many other creationists their degrees.