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The Daily OrangeBaylor forces professor to shut down site
Abstract:
Just before the 2007-2008 academic year began, Baylor University shut down a personal Web site, dedicated to the theory of intelligent design, of distinguished professor Robert J. Marks II. A Baptist university in Texas, Baylor is now entrenched in a legal battle with the electrical and chemical engineering professor, who claims his academic freedom was violated when his Web site was shut down without his knowledge....
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Paul Burnett
posted 9/10/07 @ 7:36 PM EST
Your reporter, Nicole Loring, states:
"Intelligent design is a controversial theory of evolution."
"Intelligent design" is not a scientific theory at all, but a thinly-disguised version of creationism. It was designed to oppose evolution without publicly invoking Genesis or Noah's Flood.
Your readers (and your reporter) might be better informed by looking at Barbara Forrest's paper "Understanding the intelligent design creationist movement: Its true nature and goals," available at http://www.centerforinquiry.net/advocacy/id_creationist_movement/
"Intelligent design is a controversial theory of evolution."
"Intelligent design" is not a scientific theory at all, but a thinly-disguised version of creationism. It was designed to oppose evolution without publicly invoking Genesis or Noah's Flood.
Your readers (and your reporter) might be better informed by looking at Barbara Forrest's paper "Understanding the intelligent design creationist movement: Its true nature and goals," available at http://www.centerforinquiry.net/advocacy/id_creationist_movement/
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Michael Mahon
posted 9/10/07 @ 3:39 PM EST
I don't even consider myself completely conservative, but being at a liberal school, my academic freedom was violated throughout my time at SU and no one ever reported on that.
Point is, this is not newsworthy.