Education
[Off topic:] The Soap Opera That Is Baylor
Just when you thought the soap opera that is Baylor was in its last season, here they come up with some priceless new material. The following piece of investigative reporting appeared today on the front page of the Waco Trib. I’d like to nominate it for a Pulitzer Prize. Also, I’m awaiting further investigation to Read More…
“Debunking Darwin”
My alumni/ae magazine, The University of Chicago Magazine, has a brief piece on me in its June 2005 issue (p. 58). It’s always interesting to see how one is perceived:
Discovery Institute Takes up the Case of Bryan Leonard
Discovery Institute Files Public Records Request in OSU Evolution Academic Freedom Case SEATTLE – Discovery Institute has filed a public records request with the Ohio State University (OSU) seeking all documents related to Darwinist attacks on OSU doctoral candidate Bryan Leonard. The request was submitted under the Ohio Public Records Act.
The ID Answer Man?
[Sorry my original posting here was a bit gruff. Let me rephrase it as follows:] I’m happy to respond to questions that are raised in the comments on this blog provided they are pertinent to the thread in which they appear and provided I have the time. On the other hand, questions out of the Read More…
Teaching the Controversy vs. Teaching ID
This just in from a colleague of mine who focuses on the controversy over evolution in the public school science curriculum:
York Daily Record Reports on Dover
Laurie Lebo of the York Daily Record interviewed me about being dropped as an expert witness in the Dover ID case (go here for the story). The Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm which had hired me as an expert witness, did not want the Foundation for Thought and Ethics, which publishes Read More…
AAAS in Action Against ID
Here’s a blurb from the June issue of Advances, the AAAS monthly newsletter:
The Politics of Restricting ID
evolutionists, in their thirst to crush ID, are every bit as committed to political maneuvering the most ardent supporter of the “Wedge.”
Nature on Smithsonian Showing of the Privileged Planet
Evolutionist row makes museum ditch donation Geoff Brumfiel, Washington DC Nature 435, 725 (9 June 2005) But intelligent-design group will show movie on Smithsonian premises…
Deposition in New Orleans
I’ve been out of pocket a few days to attend the deposition of Barbara Forrest in the Dover County ID Case (I’m an expert witness for the ID side and was advising the ID side’s deposing attorney; by the way, Forrest struck me as very nice in person). I expect I’ll be reporting more on Read More…
Problem with Display
There’s a problem with how this blog is displaying on web browsers. I’m attempting to get it fixed ASAP.
Truth at Baylor
After cleaning house on Wednesday of this week by firing David Jeffrey as provost, Baylor’s interim president Bill Underwood called a pep rally of all Baylor faculty and staff on Thursday (see the story below). There he remarked: “Baylor University can be the most exciting university to study at, to teach at, to conduct research Read More…
Housecleaning at Baylor
Just so there’s no doubt regarding the following story, to say that the provost was replaced is to say that he was fired. What does this portend for Baylor? The signs are not good if the aim is to see Baylor become a university that is Christian in more than just name. Sloan and Jeffrey Read More…
Take a cruise with Dan Dennett, Susan Blackmore, Paul Kurtz, etc.
The Center for Inquiry, a leading skeptic society, is putting together a “dream cruise” December 10-17, 2005. Imagine with me putting a dozen extremely bright, ID-enthusiastic, street-witnessing Jesus-freak undergrads on this boat and letting them pass out tracts, ask tough questions during lectures, and engage in assorted mayhem. Ah, if only I had millions…. I Read More…