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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
Perhaps we need to establish a tenure tract Affirmative Action Program for professors who base their research on ID.

Until then, universities are free to grant tenure to only their best and brightest.

15 posted on 05/13/2007 11:20:35 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

“Until then, universities are free to grant tenure to only their best and brightest.”

The best and the brightest do not deny the existence of God.

But how could it be, then, that those who do deny the existence of God think themselves the best and the brightest?

The answer, surprisingly, comes from a throw-away line by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “Mediocrity knows nothing better than itself.”


17 posted on 05/13/2007 11:24:36 AM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: trumandogz
Until then, universities are free to grant tenure to only their best and brightest.

Do you really believe that only "the best and the brightest" are granted tenure at universities?

Have you ever set foot on a university?

19 posted on 05/13/2007 11:27:11 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: trumandogz

If what is in Universities is the ‘best and brightest’, it is a sad day for America. Certainly, inability to get tenure says NOTHING about the worthiness of the individual to receive it. After all, isn’t Ward Churchill among those who have attained tenure???

No. This is more about the brainwash that will not allow competing theories to evolution to be taught at any time any where in any public institution. So much for the free exchange of ideas.


21 posted on 05/13/2007 11:27:34 AM PDT by Blogger
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To: trumandogz

See post #13.


23 posted on 05/13/2007 11:27:57 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo (The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
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