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Expelled – Not Just for Professors Anymore…
We recently I attended a Q&A Panel Discussion including a primer on Darwinism and Intelligent Design prompted by the movie “Expelled”. The eight panelists each presented fascinating and compelling ten minute mini-lectures on the intricacies of design and patterns from their particular fields of science. The prestigious panel included molecular biologists, rocket scientists, professors, and social commentators.
We all saw the movie and know that “Expelled” established the fact that the word “design” and “intelligent” are not allowed to be uttered in the same sentence from the mouth of a teacher or research scientist lest you risk losing your career and reputation – tenured or not. Such goes the political correct police who are empowered to banish you to the institutional nether regions.
One of the most interesting comments came during the second half of the presentation during question and answer time. Two visiting lawyers from the Center for Academdic freedom or The Alliance Defence Fund www.centerforacadmicfreedom.org made some enlightening comments. They said that suppression of free speech and research followed by persecution is not limited to professors only. But in fact, they represent many students who have unjustly suffer reprisals from their teachers and administration for a number of view points that some universities deem as “conservative” or “religious”. Some students have been degraded for presenting data that suggests that a monogamous marriage between one man and one woman builds stable and better environments for children. One of their clients along with her class mates were forced to write and send letters to their legislator endorsing pending legislation for pro-homosexual marriages; and the examples when on.
So, free speech and academic freedom seem in some cases to be just a nice paper thin PR facade for some of our major universities. We all know that universities are inhabited by many grown-up hippy ideologist – but I thought hippies were into peace and love. This type of behavior is more like brass knuckles to the gut when the parents and public aren’t looking. I was worried about the new rash of day care abuse and then to be followed the nursing home abuse scandals. Now its Darwinian materialists and hippies gone bad. What is the world coming to?
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