Posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:52 AM PDT by xcamel
William Dembski, the “intelligent design” creationist who is a professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has some rather interesting requirements for students of his creationism courses — 20% of their final grade comes from having written 10 posts promoting ID on “hostile” websites: Academic Year 2009-2010.
Spring 2009
Intelligent Design (SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY #AP 410, 510, and 810; May 11 – 16, 2009)
NEW! THE DUE DATE FOR ALL WORK IN THIS COURSE IS AUGUST 14, 2009. Here’s what you will need to do to wrap things up:
AP410 — This is the undegrad [sic] course. You have three things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 40% of your grade); (2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade); (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
AP510 — This is the masters course. You have four things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 30% of your grade); (2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God — for instructions, see below (20% of your grade); (3) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 30% of your grade); (4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
ping-a-ling
What a surprise. I see CJ still sees social conservatives as a major problem in this country.
Sorry - although I disagree with the Young Earthers for scientific reasons, I do not see them as a problem. I'm far more concerned about directing fire leftwards, towards the real source of most of the problems in this country.
You can make an idol out of an ideology too.
So what’s your problem?
I don’t see them as a problem in the larger culture either. I view the whole kerfuffle as an internecine fight amongst Christians.
Now if we could get this crowd to go bother Obama’s “truth squad” who monitor (and try to talk back to) our primary sites such as Free Republic, etc., we’d kill two birds with two stones eh!
They certainly try to make Darwin into the ‘antichrist’...
Difference of opinion from Darwinism = trolling. LOL!
So, when will GodGutsGuns finish his PhD and go away?
“provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs”
Wow, that would be easy!
You could just paste a bunch of drivel from some weak source an call it a day!
Hey, here’s one that should work.
Tailor made for spamming & trolling if you ask me.
That would be my question...
It figures you would trash another FReeper without pinging them.
oh boo-friggin-hoo.
Grow up.
PhD candidate ping.
stupid title....engaging web sites with intellectual debate is not ‘trolling’
Hmmm ... let me think ... what is more obnoxious to conservatism ... GGG's posts about creationism? Or your non-stop posts from liberal websites that bash Palin?
That's a toughie ... not.
We all know manners are not your strong suite, either...
Correct answer -- making conservatives look like morons by posting pseudoscientific flapdoodle is a standard liberal-troll tactic.
It is proper etiquette to ping a freeper if your are going to mention him in your posts.
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