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: Thoughts in a Haystack

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By John Pieret

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Okay, I can't wait to give you this from the Calvary Chapel decision.

It seems that the Discovery Institute's Own Foot Firing Squad was out in force for the case. In particular, Michael Behe managed to discharge a round into the plaintiff's oxfords.

The issue was the University of California's decision to reject biology courses that used Biology: God's Living Creation (published by A Beka) or Biology for Christian Schools (published by Bob Jones University) as the primary text in the course. Behe was the plaintiff's "biology expert" (oh, the irony!) and the court found:

Plaintiffs' evidence also supports Defendants' conclusion that these biology texts are inappropriate for use as the primary or sole text. Plaintiffs' own biology expert, Professor Michael Behe testified that "it is personally abusive and pedagogically damaging to de facto require students to subscribe to an idea . . . . Requiring a student to, effectively, consent to an idea violates [her] personal integrity. Such a wrenching violation [may cause] a terrible educational outcome." [Emphasis added]
Yet, the two Christian biology texts at issue commit this "wrenching violation." For example, Biology for Christian Schools declares on the very first page that:
(1) "'Whatever the Bible says is so; whatever man says may or may not be so,' is the only [position] a Christian can take . . . ."
(2) "If [scientific] conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many scientific facts may appear to back them."
(3) "Christians must disregard [scientific hypotheses or theories] that contradict the Bible."

Based in no small part on Behe's testimony, the court found the there was, at least, a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the rejection of the plaintiffs' biology courses was reasonable.

Didn't these people know what happend the last time Mikey got near a courtroom?
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Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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