RE: Columbia disaster`a punishment from Allah'

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 22:18:01 MST

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    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky reckons:

    > I don't believe that
    > this kind of selective reporting-and-repetition contributes to forming an
    > accurate picture.

    Not even a little bit? Well then, what about this, in the larger scheme of
    things, from the Homeland:

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    February 3, 2003

    Professor's Snub of Creationists Prompts U.S. Inquiry

    By NICK MADIGAN

    Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

    LUBBOCK, Tex., Feb. 2 - A biology professor who insists that his students
    accept the tenets of human evolution has found himself the subject of
    Justice Department scrutiny.

    Prompted by a complaint from the Liberty Legal Institute, a group of
    Christian lawyers, the department is investigating whether Michael L. Dini,
    an associate professor of biology at Texas Tech University here,
    discriminated against students on the basis of religion when he posted a
    demand on his Web site that students wanting a letter of recommendation for
    postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific
    answer" to the question of how the human species originated.

    "The central, unifying principle of biology is the theory of evolution," Dr.
    Dini wrote. "How can someone who does not accept the most important theory
    in biology expect to properly practice in a field that is so heavily based
    on biology?"

    That was enough for the lawyers' group, based in Plano, a Dallas suburb, to
    file a complaint on behalf of a 22-year-old Texas Tech student, Micah
    Spradling. [etc]

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    Damien Broderick



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