First, I’m fighting for equality under the law for homosexuals. Tolerance and acceptance are personal matters. They might make people more likely to support legal equality for homosexuals, but my target is equality.

Second, I thought I made it clear teaching Darwin’s laws of evolution has nothing to do with belief. It is science. Regarding the origin of life, coding theory shows why life is an axiom of biology. Creationism and Intelligent Design are religion. Period.

Teachers may believe in anything they want. But they must teach the facts. I only wrote about what must be taught.

Cynthia

As a science major, however, I would not teach that in a class, although I would allow students to discuss it if they wanted to, and I would explain that it is a religious doctrine that many do not believe. Then again, Sir Isaac Newton believed, and no one would call him irrelevant.

And I am surprised that someone who fights so hard for tolerance and acceptance would be so – sorry, -intolerant on this issue. Should an English teacher be run out of academia because he/she believes in creation? What about a science teacher who sticks to the science and doesn’t try to convert his or her students? I don’t believe in religious or philosophical litmus tests for college professors. In fact, I WANT to know where they stand on issues – what I don’t like are hidden agendas and viewpoints.

What really got me were those Criminology courses, taught by people who had never held so much as a riot stick, much less a service revolver and a set of Peerless Handcuffs. But, I digress.

I do believe Darwin was on to something, I also believe that evolution is His way of building His world. I sometimes wonder where He came from, then I quit thinking and eat a piece of Linda Lou’s cheesecake and take a nap. Even as poorly as I have done, trying to follow my religion, it’s made me a better man.

While there have been some horrors in the background of Christianity and the mother religion of the Chosen People, those horrors are nothing compared to scientific socials and National socialism.

So, I don’t much care about academia these days, the inmates have taken over too much of the asylum. It’s a damned shame too. So many parents send their bright, well adjusted kids to the universities and then get back hateful and hating kids, unfit to make a living, so many suicidal. I believe our kids are healthy, happy and enjoying productive lives now because we sent them to Church of Christ colleges and universities. They learned Darwin there but not hatred of America.

Something must be done about all those socialists infesting the academy. Tar and feathers might be a start.

Actually, it probably should be called Darwin’s laws of evolution by now. There. Fixed.

In science, “theory” does not mean “guess.” In science, “theory” means “this is the explanation for how X happens.” It is more like laying out an algorithm.

Cynthia