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Expelled: No Darwin Allowed
April 14, 2010 by Brandon 3 Comments
At least the Catholics have one thing going for them, and that’s their acceptance of evolution. As one theology professor has learned, it’s pretty dangerous for you to openly admit to accepting evolution in some theology schools of “higher learning.”
Florida’s Reformed Theological Seminary has kicked professor Bruce K. Waltke out after a video blog of his surfaced. In the video, Waltke allegedly states that Christianity’s continued denial of evolution will “make [them] a cult.”
A pretty bold statement from a professor at a seminary with an explicit mandate on never mentioning evolution.
What I find so amusing about this is the blatant hypocrisy on display here. The religious right is bent on “teaching the controversy” in our public schools, that is, injecting intelligent design into biology classes so that students can have “both sides” of the argument. Yet when it comes to their schools, they’ll force a professor out for his private thoughts on the matter outside of the classroom.
I wonder what Ben Stein has to say about this. Perhaps he should make another documentary about religious schools not teaching evolution and firing professors who discuss the subject, because after all, the purpose of his film was simply to demonstrate the unfairness and bias in the education system. Right? Yeah, right.
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David Frum learned this exactly same thing a few weeks ago.
True story.
There may well be some hypocrisy here, but it\’s not obvious from your description. *Some* proponents of creationism and/or \"intelligent design\" do advocate \"teaching the controversy\", but I don\’t think all of them do.
It seems that the Reformed Theological Seminary simply advocates teaching pure creationism, without mentioning evolution. If so, that\’s an internally consistent (though scientifically wrong) position. One element of the religious right disagreeing with another element of the religious right doesn\’t imply that anyone is a hypocrite.