Re: [asa] public response

I understand your frustration with an kakangelist for atheism. It can
happen without that particular doctrinaire approach. I know I offended a
liberal clergyman who was a philosophy professor, and did not give a
"proper" declaration that the scripture is full of error. I was plowed
after completing the course work for a doctorate. I learned later that
the faculty had decided that no conservative evangelical would be passed.
It was to the good, for, though I had taken all the advanced logic
courses offered there, I was grossly ignorant of logic.

It doesn't need to be an anti-evangelical or atheistic bent to have a
similar effect. My daughter got a C in logic from an evangelical
professor because "girls can't do logic well." She had the first or
second highest test score or grade on papers, but that didn't matter.
Dave (ASA)

On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:10:16 -0700 (PDT) rcmetcalf@thinkagain.us writes:

> My oldest is only in 7th grade, but it won't be long before these
> issues
> come to the fore with him, too. I'd really like to see a greater
> openness
> to the Christian worldview in colleges and universities before then.
> I
> remember my first Philosophy class (PH101) in 1975 at the University
> of
> Maryland, a state school, mind you. The prof got up the first day
> and
> exclaimed that one of his goals for the course was to convince every
> student that the idea of God was completely untenable, and if they
> couldn't accept that they should drop the class immediately. I stuck
> it
> out, spoke up in class, handed in every paper, well-written and on
> time,
> and left the course with an F. I ended up graduating cum laude as
> opposed
> to magna cum laude, for want of a better grade in that one class.

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