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KC · 02-11-2003, 09:07 AM

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I'm writing this across from a bookshelf stacked with critiques of evolution by professional scientists

Bullshit.

KC

RufusAtticus · 02-11-2003, 09:33 AM

I looked up the guy who wrote that more nuttage and he is a Journalism prof at UT: Austin.

tgamble · 02-11-2003, 09:52 AM

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So I was surprised by a Jan. 30 Associated Press report about a biology professor at Texas Tech who does not write letters of recommendation for his students if they don't believe in evolution.

I must be missing something. Where does he say that requires that? He requires a scientific answer to a scientific question.

What's wrong with that?

WinAce · 02-11-2003, 01:34 PM

Admitting that wouldn't let them lie for the faith, though.

scombrid · 02-11-2003, 02:11 PM

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Fucker. A former atheist/communist/kitten molester turned godbot journalism professor critiquing a biologists view on a theory central to evolution, lovely.

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Apparently, moving from atheistic left to biblical right causes brains to fall out.

Of course not. He got the cause/effect reversed. The brains fall out thus causing the shift of world view.

scombrid · 02-11-2003, 02:14 PM

http://worldmag.com/world/issue/02-15-03/home.asp

KC · 02-11-2003, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by RufusAtticus
I looked up the guy who wrote that more nuttage and he is a Journalism prof at UT: Austin.

Not only that:

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But it is George W. Bush who is the preeminent politician advocating a significantly greater role for churches and other faith-based organizations. The inspiration for this comes from a man Time Magazine recently described as "an unlikely guru." He is Marvin Olasky, a professor of Journalism at the University of Texas, and the person considered to be the architect of Bush's effort to increase the role of religion in the public sphere. Behind the talk about "compassionate conservatism," though, is a man who would seriously alter the relationship between church and state, and use religious belief as a tool in reconstructing civil society

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Yech

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This guy is a freakin nut

KC

RufusAtticus · 02-11-2003, 10:44 PM

Baptisboard is promoting more ignorance

bleubird · 02-12-2003, 01:01 AM

I went to catholic schools through the 11th grade.
Fransican order.Great science education.The most liberal of the catholic orders.I am now an agnostic.
Thanks Father Pat.

Grad Student Humanist · 02-12-2003, 11:53 AM

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Baptisboard is promoting more ignorance

What else is new.

Actually I visit the BaptistBoard occasionally and I'm quite happy to see that many of the Baptists on there don't just tow the GOP line on everything. It's quite encouraging.

My favorite was just recently when the most rabid of the GOP propagandists was severely refuted when she tried to assert that Baptists should be all for "faith based initiatives" and the mingling of church and state. Many of the Baptists on there then reminded her that the Baptist faith has historically championed the cause of church-state separation and they had the quotes from their religious ancestors to prove it.

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