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- Anti-Creationism Professor at Kansas Claims Compelled Resignation
CNN.com has an intriguing story about a professor at the University of Kansas who sought to discredit intelligent design theory as just another form of creationism and made a number of insulting remarks about Christian evangelicals in email exchanges. ProfessorTracked on: Workplace Prof Blog (66.151.149.25) at 2005 12 11 14:46:59 - I know I did my last job too long
...because when I read on Pharyngula that Professor Mirecki, late of "I'm teaching a class on Mythology that includes Intelligent Design," was hospitalized after being beaten up by anti-science rednecks, I bit back "bullshit" from jumping loudly free of my...Tracked on: Naked Writing Dot Com (66.98.204.4) at 2005 12 07 17:22:16 - Intelligent design advocates decide that what they lack in evidence, they can make up for in force
Okay, this is clearly not indicative of the creationist movement as a whole, which prefers to damage education by confusing people and making it hard for educators to do their job, but I still think it's noteworthy that tensions have...Tracked on: Pandagon (66.33.218.138) at 2005 12 06 20:18:16 - Culture wars heating up?
OK, it's probably just a case of a couple of rednecks doing the sort of thing rednecks do (attack people with whom they disagree). But it's difficult to deny that the rhetoric used these days by the "traditional values" pundits (including those who s...Tracked on: Expert Opinion (72.9.234.70) at 2005 12 06 13:29:47 - Violence and Intelligent Design
Several people have written on this. You can find the news account at The Lawrence Journal-World. Since, I copped the heart of my headline from Alun, I might as well use most of his opening paragraph also. . . ....Tracked on: Abnormal Interests (64.81.36.251) at 2005 12 06 10:40:41 - From the Antichristian-English Dictionary
This may prove helpful to those of you who have trouble with their language:Persecution: a professor of religious studies characterising 'intelligent design' creationism as mythology rather than science and, in an email to a private listserv, saying something mildly rudeTracked on: The Sixth International (66.151.149.25) at 2005 12 06 06:59:15 - Violence as an acceptable way to defend Intelligent Design?
Picked up from Red State Rabble and Pharyngula is the news that the Chair of Religious Studies at KU, Paul Mirecki, has been attacked by a couple of Kansans who who thought Mirecki was simply too scary to attack alone. Mirecki was in the news recently ...Tracked on: alun (69.93.254.178) at 2005 12 06 06:11:50 - That time of year
No, not the holidays. Finals. And there's not much time to do more than clean the porn spam out of the comments and pings. It's an amusing ritual by this point because the latest MTBlacklist is really nice, and I...Tracked on: Bloodless Coup (63.66.160.28) at 2005 12 05 22:31:53 - Paul Mirecki assaulted by anti-evolutionists
Paul Mirecki, the Kansas University professor who was thrust into the spotlight for "bad mouthing" fundamentalist Christians prior to offering a religious studies course on Intelligent Design, has been assaulted by two white men in a pickup truck, i.e., two...Tracked on: Buridan's Ass (66.235.212.128) at 2005 12 05 21:13:40