Posted on 05/03/2014 5:12:40 AM PDT by Gamecock
STORRS, Conn. – A University of Connecticut professor asserted that he came from an ape on Tuesday as he went wild during a campus gospel presentation that included discussion on evolution.
James Boster, Professor of Anthropology at University of Connecticut, spent over two hours attempting to draw students away from several evangelists that were open-air preaching and distributing gospel literature on campus.
Evangelist Don Karns of Hampton, Virginia told Christian News Network that Boster approached him as he was holding a sign about evolution and became condescending and confrontational.
“He asked me if I had accepted Darwin as my lord and savior,” Karns stated. “He was very agitated, very demonstrative. … It was very unbecoming of a professor.”
Minutes later, Boster also began to heckle campus tour coordinator Scott Smith of Schoolmaster Ministries of Raleigh, North Carolina as he preached.
“As I was pointing to Christ—I was talking about the sin nature—I said, ‘There’s probably some people out there—maybe even professors—who think they descended from monkeys,’” Smith recalled. “[Boster] jumped off the ground and came running over and basically started screaming, ‘I did not come from a monkey! I came from an ape!’”
“He got about two inches from my nose,” he noted. “You could tell he was going to pop.”
Karns states that Boster then confronted him a second time, using profanity and likewise coming closely to his face. Andrew Rappaport of Striving for Eternity Ministries in Jackson, New Jersey witnessed Boster as he began presenting a speech in an attempt to stir up the students.
“He started to address the students as ‘My brothers and sisters of Darwin,’” he recalled.
“I want you to join me in saying, ‘Praise Darwin!’” Boster declared, as the students echoed his refrain. “Amen!” he proclaimed.
Boster then instructed the students to “feel your spiritual kinship not just with other humans, but also with your fellow mammals.”
“We are all bonded together in that great spiritual web,” he stated. “The divine saturates nature the way that gravy saturates cornbread.”
As Rappaport began preaching, Boster again became agitated, and at one point began shouting in Polish.
“He literally got two inches from my face and started yelling at me that I was ignorant,” Rappaport said. “I start trying to transition to the gospel and he then tried to get the crowd to tell me to shut up.’”
“He was being rude. He was talking over me,” he remembered. “He was yelling at me, and I tried to say, ‘Can we have a reasonable discussion?’ … But he asked a question and then talked right over me.”
Rappaport said that although Boster claimed that he was now going to conduct “open-air Darwinism” on campus as a result of the preaching, he remained open to further discussion and was willing to exchange emails.
Smith, a former prep school teacher and headmaster, expressed a concern for Boster’s soul and eternal salvation.
“We obviously care about this professor and the students at UConn, and we long for them to find the liberty and freedom from sin in serving Jesus,” he stated.
Boster could not be reached for comment.
Hey,a breath mint wouldn’t kill you.
What a joke of a university.
The shirt is not blue, it’s brown. And those are jackboots the academic fascist is wearing.
He doesn't agree with something and instead of entering into a debate to present his "superior argument" he tries to shout down the other person. He fails at that so he tries to intimidate the other person. He fails at that so he tries to create a mob that will demean and shout down the other person.
It seems to me the bigger problem is no one is willing to confront the question what is the foundation of your truth.
“He doesn’t agree with something and instead of entering into a debate to present his “superior argument” he tries to shout down the other person.”
Apparently the demons living within this man could not stand to hear the truth or wanted any other person to hear the truth.
People have different ways of celebrating diversity.
Gravy on cornbread is like a fish on a bicycle.
“He asked me if I had accepted Darwin as my lord and savior,”
Boster certainly shows his credentials as a semi intelligent ape. Evangelical Athiests are hypocrites to their own beliefs. While I’m certainly not an athiest, I do find the theory of evolution and old earth geology convincing, I also believe in rational dialogue. Ridicule has no place in that. Invading the turf of creationists is counterproductive and this meeting was plainly not intended as a real debate.
I was seriously concerned that the ministers would be mobbed. I tried to get a bit closer to let them know they were not completely alone, but I wasn't able to get very clsoe. Eventually they left.
The contrast was striking -- the ministers standing firmly, preaching in measured tones and ignoring the mocking people pretending to be kneeling in prayer at their feet -- and the crowd screaming, jeering, angry, verging on violent...I was suprised not to hear a thing about it on the local news, but I suppose I shouldn't have been.
It seems the older we get the more we see how what the leftists accuse Christians and conservatives of is really what they are. They proclaim that they are for free speech, freedom of thought, and tolerance. Yet anyone who dares to point out that their claims of moral authority rest on nothing but hot air are shouted down, denied free speech and physically intimidated.
Our country is in decline. We are the last Christian nation in western civilization. I doubt another generation will be able to say we are a Christian nation. If we think things are bad now, just wait until the moral underpinnings of society are based solely on the whims of the mob.
“Why do the heathen rage ...”
I think I’d like to see you prove old Chuck died for my sins and rose on the third dsy, Professor.
Just because you think campus preachers are absurd, that doesn’t make it a good idea to go psycho with them.
Wow.
Thanks for sharing that. What a chilling story.
The winning Connecticut Blue...Duke and Carolina, you might be in the ACC, but we are the best in basketball. We are men and women’s NATIONAL CHAMPS...any questions.
I’ll pass on the popcorn and have some ice cream from the UConn Dairy Store instead.
One of the best public university in the US. And the best women’s basketball coach ever!!!
I think I saw a documentary about that. (I’m not really fond of popcorn; it was just a figure of speech.)
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