Re: Dean Kenyon (was Darwinist Macro-Evolution)

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:22:57 -0500

At 6:47 AM 2/7/96 -0500, Stephen Jones quoted Jim Foley:
>JF>He did not lose his post, he was only suspended from teaching an
>>introductory biology course for non-majors
>
>SJ:I realised Kenyon did not lose his job, but he did lose his "post",
>ie. his teaching post. That's what I meant.
>
>JF>because he had been teaching
>>bogus young-earth arguments, and also arguing against abortion.
>
[snip]

>JF> In my
>>opinion the suspension was justified; if I was a student paying good
>>money for tuition, I'd be decidedly unhappy if I got that in lectures.
>
>I suspect students get a lot of pro-abortion and extra evolutionist
>material in classes. Indeed, I would have thought the other side to
>the abortion issue, might be highly relevant in a Biology class?

I hear frequent complaints from Christians attending state universities
that some professors use their classrooms to indoctrinate students with
their particular slant on women's issues, lesbianism, pro-abortion and a
variety of other highly political issues. They resent spending their
tuition dollars for irrelevant political detours also. My reaction is
that all of us ought to put more pressure on our public universities to
teach what they were chartered to teach.

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