Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Why Teaching Religion in School is a Bad Idea, Part 312

Here's the story of a little dust-up at the University of Kansas over a professor apparently designing a course to mock conservative Christians. The course was originally called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and other Religious Mythologies," later changed to "Intelligent Design and Creationism." The controversy erupted when an e-mail from the professor to the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics, a student organization for which he serves as faculty adviser, was made public. In it he "called supporters of the teaching of intelligent design and creationism religious "fundies" and said it would be a "nice slap in their big fat face" to teach the subjects as mythology".

I don't know whether this guy is a righteous advocate of science or a big jerk. But my point is that conservative Christians seem to think the local pastor will be teaching the Bible class at the local high school, when, in fact, it will be taught by guys like this.

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