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Incoming Baylor University President (Kenneth Starr) to honor Intelligent Design professor
Dallas Morning News ^ | 04/02/2010 | GROMER JEFFERS Jr. / The Dallas Morning News

Posted on 04/02/2010 1:39:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A change in leadership certainly makes a difference. Past recent administrations at Baylor University in Waco have maintained sensible policies protecting scientific integrity against those who would force their dogmatic religious beliefs on unsuspecting students paying top dollar for higher education. The previous administrations have resisted efforts by some professors in the so-called "Intelligent Design" movement who sought to distort the principles of modern science to include religious teachings tantamount to creationist fundamentalism.

Dr. Bob Marks is one of these professors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department who has caused friction with the administration for promoting his Intelligent Design theories on the University website. Marks was ultimately overruled and forced to remove the offending content.

But now times have changed. Incoming Baylor president Kenneth Starr, infamous for heading the investigations that led to impeachment of former Democrat President Bill Clinton, has announced that shortly after he enters office in June of this year, he will honor Marks for his efforts. "If ever there was a University where discussions of faith and science could be welcomed it is Baylor University. We should commend those with the courage to address the difficult questions, such as origins of life, that touch on both our scientific knowledge and understanding and our deeply held religious beliefs."

The Dallas Morning News was unable to reach Marks for comment, but Baylor Professor of Neuroscience Jim Patton said, "This news is disappointing because it undermines our stature as a university. Evolution is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted by the vast majority of scientists. We should not entertain alternative hypotheses or philosophically-deduced theories that cannot be tested rigorously."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: academia; awards; baylor; bayloruniversity; bobmarks; highereducation; intelligentdesign; kennethstarr; kenstarr; scienceeducation
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To: Nosterrex
".. I was a huge supporter of ID before reading their works"

They believe in God and therefore intelligent design (small i, small d), but they aren't supporters of the "ID Movement". Big difference.

21 posted on 04/02/2010 2:31:37 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society, eviscerates the fantasies that uphold leftist thought)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s where my daughter wants to go. Nearly passed out looking at the costs.


22 posted on 04/02/2010 2:33:26 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ken Starr is a good man and this was a good decision.

Baylor will be stronger with him at the helm.


23 posted on 04/02/2010 2:43:58 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

"What did you just say?"

24 posted on 04/02/2010 2:48:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Allegra
And Heitmiller's on I-35 has great steaks for such reasonable pries.

You certainly don't leave that place hungry.

25 posted on 04/02/2010 3:11:53 PM PDT by TheMom (I'm now a grandma! Welcome to the world Kaiden Thomas.)
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To: Matchett-PI
I understand your point. Collins certainly does believe that God created the universe and established natural laws, in which he sees Darwinian evolution as part of those laws. He believes that God knew, not determined, the final out come, man. I differ with him on how much God intervened in the process, and I do not believe that God simply peeked into the future without some teological intervention. Nevertheless, Collins makes a persuasive argument for theistic evolution.
26 posted on 04/02/2010 3:16:50 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Nosterrex
You may be a person who would find this interesting:

"....All of these problems with the left hijacking science were recognized by my favorite philosopher, Michael Polanyi, as early as the mid-1940s. .... Although his writings are free of any overt religiosity, I find that they most adequately support my view of a universe that is both absolute and evolving, as it must be; or evolving toward an Absolute that is orthoparadoxically both its origin and its destiny, alpha and omega (more on which below).

HERE

27 posted on 04/02/2010 4:38:42 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society, eviscerates the fantasies that uphold leftist thought)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think this is a prank. Note the url and the last sentence. Starr is indeed president of Baylor, and Bob Marks is a professor who has been at the center of an ID controversy, but there is no indication that the rest of the story is real.


28 posted on 04/02/2010 4:42:57 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Evoloserism is no longer being defended by anybody in academia with anything you’d call brains or talent, basically just academic dead wood.


29 posted on 04/07/2010 8:34:33 PM PDT by wendy1946
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