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