[kittymyrib]

And NO professor is owed a tax-payer financed pay check. He can hold any belief he wants but has NO right to require that the students uphold his religious belief in evolution. Because unless you know of some video tape showing the evolution of species, this theory is a matter of faith. By the way, answer this: how could incomplete male and female reproductive systems produce offspring? Have you ever had friends or relatives trying to conceive, using everything in our modern medical technology, only to have it fail again and again? And we are to believe that male and female reproductive systems, so utterly dissimiliar, could in the process of evolving reproduce off-spring. Now that requires much more faith than I can muster. No wonder evolutionists need "billions and billions of years",in the words of the late Carl Sagan, to make this laughable theory (see Psalm 2:4) fly.

[Catspaw]

Micah Spradling never took a class from this professor. He never asked for a letter of recommendation from this professor. It appears that Mr. Spradling is imposing his religious beliefs on the professor, not the other way around.

Why the Justice Department is involved in this matter is beyond me, and a waste of my tax dollars. Spradling's purpose appears to be frivilous litigation.

[RJCogburn]

require that the students uphold his religious belief in evolution.

You err when you call it a religious belief.

[TightSqueeze]

...but has NO right to require that the students uphold his religious belief in evolution.

Straw-man Alert! Science is not religion, just because all the answers are not known, there is enough theory to think that at some time in the future they can be known. It is not blind faith or simply saying God said it, we believe it, and that settles it. Simply put religion ain't science, and teaching religion as science will only put us behind less religious countries seeking the same answers. Foolishness like this does not go on in other academic countries.

[Salgak]

The professor is owed a tax-payer, and student-financed paycheck FOR TEACHING BIOLOGY COURSES. Not for writing letters of recommendation, a purely optional activity. Have you read the professor's page on his policy ? He requires you to:

a) Get an "A" in at least one of his courses.

b) Be well-enough known to him, by any of a number of criteria.

c) As he teaches a science course, he asks a science question. When a scientist writes a recommendation or other opinion, he puts his credibility as a scientist on the line.

So why SHOULDN'T he evaluate a candidate based on the criteria he sets forward ???

[Physicist]

Now that requires much more faith than I can muster.

No doubt.

Alternatively, you might try a little knowledge.

[Dudoight]

I cannot believe this dichotomy exists. In my opinion creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. But, the point of this article should be 'Does Spradling have a legimate right to sue'...having never enrolled in the prof's class. Too many people have too much time on their hands.

[steve-b]

Because unless you know of some video tape showing the evolution of species, this theory is a matter of faith.

I didn't know that Johnny Cochran ("Does the prosecution have a video tape of my client assaulting Ms Smith and Mr Goldman?") lurked here.

[RadioAstronomer]

that the students uphold his religious belief in evolution.

Evolution IS NOT a religious belief at all. It is a scientific theory that resulted from hundreds of years of painstaking research. On the other hand, Creationism/ID is a belief system and does not belong in a science class or should be considered science at all. Creationism/ID is truly a faith-based argument.

[MamaB]

Very well said.

[Right Wing Professor]

By the way, answer this: how could incomplete male and female reproductive systems produce offspring?

I think that's a question for Michael Jackson.