[HiTech RedNeck]

It would be a colossal waste of his time for the student to try to earn credentials for a graduate career through that particular professor, if he can't or won't utter the concomitant personal belief. That is what goes beyond the pale. Agreed that the circumstances don't make for the strongest legal case.

At the college level, there's nothing keeping him from teaching a theory of creationism if he wishes, but since most people calling themselves scientists profess some kind of evolutionary origins then he needs also to teach a theory of evolutionary origins so the student will understand that kind of biology.

[Catspaw]

From the student's statements, he's the one who wants to change the system, to force this professor, and possibly the university, to teach creationism rather than evolution, or to have the university offer a class in creationism rather than evolution, for whatever science requirement this class would fulfill (if this is a required course).