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Emma Peel · 03-22-2003, 12:16 AM

While scanning the web for creation/evolution news items for today's headlines for Creation/Evolution: The Eternal Debate </shameless plug>, I came across this item from AiG regarding that Dr. Bryson at Mississippi University for Women who had gotten canned from her position as division head of science and mathematics after giving an anti-evolution lecture at some kind of honors seminar.

The original article from Agape Press made it sound like perhaps she was just being provocative with the honors students, presenting an alternative to the reigning theory. Then the MUW administration rather clumsily reinstated her after receiving a flood of emails.

Today, AiG weighed in. It looks like they interviewed her. But in doing so, they revealed that Dr. Bryson was hardly a disinterested, neutral observer on the evolution issue:

Quote:

�The talk itself was not blatantly Christian/Biblical,� Dr Bryson says. So why did it cause such offense? �Well, I believe it was speaking the truth,� she comments. �Hearing the truth about origins causes the materialist mind to go into a rage.�

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Throughout her ordeal, Dr Bryson says the students at MUW have been very supportive. She hopes that her trials will �help open the door for a small but growing number of college professors who don�t buy evolution as fact but are afraid for their academic careers.�

The freedom to question evolution is dear to Dr Bryson�s heart. She says that, as an undergraduate at MUW, �I was taught a lot of misinformation about the �fact� of evolution. By mid-adulthood, I had pretty well convinced myself that there was no God to report to. Thankfully the Lord came and got me when I was in my mid-40s.�

BTW, I still don't know if MUW overreacted to her lecture. (Was this some kind of graduate seminar? If it was, maybe it's OK, as opposed to presenting it to freshmen, for example.) OTOH, she doesn't have tenure, and they could have fired her from her teaching post as well as the administrative position, yet they didn't. And who knows what other problems she was having with the administration/faculty besides this?

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