Source: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, July 31, 2013
This email was sent today by Ball State University (BSU) president Jo Ann M. Gora to all her faculty and students. It unequivocally rejects the teaching of intelligent design and religious ideas in BSU science classes (I?ve put the relevant parts in bold). It looks like Eric Hedin will no longer be able to push religious ideas in his Physics and Astronomy class. Note that Gora also says, contra P. Z. Meyers and Larry Moran, that ?teaching intelligent design as a scientific theory is not a matter of academic freedom?it is a matter of academic integrity.? This undoubtedly reflects the report of the five-person committee assigned to review Hedin?s course, whose report must have been something like ?not science.? Note as well, in the third-from-last paragraph, that Gora says this is a First Amendment issue, and that BSU should ?maintain a clear separation between church and state.? That is an added bonus. I count this, perhaps a bit prematurely, as a victory. And it would not have been possible if ?outsiders? like the Freedom from Religion Foundation hadn?t warned BSU what was going on. I thank my anonymous informants at BSU, those students who complained about the course, and, of course the FFRF, whose attorney Andrew Seidel kept the heat on BSU. Now one can speculate that this is a moved designed to save BSU?s credibility as a purveyor of good science. But now is not the time for such cynicism. I?d like to think that the University ...
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