Friday, November 25, 2005

 

Turnabout What?

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Thanks to the poster known as "Shane" at the talk.origins newsgroup for this idea:

A recent article in the Lawrence Journal-World reports on the reaction to a less-than-politic e-mail by Paul Mirecki, chairman of Kansas University’s department of religious studies, who recently announced a new course about Intelligent Design titled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and other Religious Mythologies." Reportedly, he said in the e-mail:

The fundies want it all taught in a science class, but this will be a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching it as a religious studies class under the category ‘mythology'.
The article goes on to report that KU’s Provost David Shulenburger said that "he regretted the words used in the e-mail, but he backed the professor and the course, maintaining it would be taught in a professional manner like all other courses."

As Shane pointed out, Shulenburger should have just said that the e-mail was an early fundraising document.
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Comments:
If you don't get the reference, see The "Wedge Document": "So What?" from the Discovery Institute.
 
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