Re: [asa] (is evolution "anti-religious"?) Discovery Institute against harmonizing?

The Collings incident isn't relevant to the legal / Constitutional question
about what can be taught in public secondary schools because he teaches in a
private religious college.

There is, of course, a whole other can of worms about academic freedom and
private religious institutions, but generally private religious institutions
have broad discretion over curriculum under the free speech, free exercise,
and free association aspects of the first amendment -- though even this is
starting to change as some argue that religious institutions should not be
entitled to discriminate against protected classes of people even for
religious reasons.

On Dec 14, 2007 1:05 PM, PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:

> The discussion should include the case of Collings
> http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/10/evolution
>
> <quote>
> I thought I was doing the church a service," Colling said in an
> interview. He believes that religious colleges that frame science and
> faith as incompatible will lose some of their best minds, and that his
> work has been devoted to helping faithful students maintain their
> religious devotion while learning science as science should be taught.
>
> "You can't check your intellect at the door of the church," he said.
> Colling has tenure and he hasn't been fired or had his pay cut — which
> university officials have told the American Association of University
> Professors means that Olivet Nazarene can't be accused of violating
> his academic freedom.
> </quote>
>
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Received on Fri Dec 14 13:26:43 2007