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Piltdown
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 04/19/2002 : 10:56:36
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DeLay's take on Baylor, A&M draws fire
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/041902dntexdelay.2ff16.html
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'Don't send your kids' to schools taken wrong, he says in apology
04/19/2002
By BRUCE NICHOLS and CHRISTOPHER LEE / The Dallas Morning News
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay went to meet the Christians and a week later found himself in the lion's den.
What started as a question to Mr. DeLay about which colleges offer an appropriate Christian education became a forum Thursday on the attributes of two of the state's prominent institutions of higher education – Texas A&M University and Baylor University.
In the end, Mr. DeLay, R-Sugar Land, who made his original comments to a church group in suburban Houston last week, apologized and said his comments had been taken out of context.
During a question-and-answer session, the House majority whip was asked where good Christians who believe in creationism should send their children to college. Not realizing he was being taped, the congressman replied: not Texas A&M or Baylor.
"Don't send your kids to Baylor," Mr. DeLay said. "And don't send your kids to A&M. There are still some Christian schools out there – good, solid schools. Now, they may be little, they may not be as prestigious as Stanford, but your kids will get a good, solid, godly education."
I was a little disappointed that he didn't mention my stomping ground here at Texas Tech, which is a veritable viper's nest of evil-utionists, a fifth column right in the middle of the creationist empire. By "godly education" in small schools, he obviously means places like our two local Christian colleges, Wayland Baptist and Lubbock Christian. Both of these teach creationism, Wayland reportedly does so exclusively.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
-Robert Lindner
Edited by - piltdown on 04/19/2002 11:01:20
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@tomic
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 Posted - 04/19/2002 : 12:07:48 [Permalink]
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What I wonder is how can a school that teaches creationism become accredited? I would think that a science degree from such a school would be worthless since they obviously toss out the scientific method on day 1 of classes.
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Physiofly
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2002 : 21:52:55 [Permalink]
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What I wonder is how can a school that teaches creationism become accredited? I would think that a science degree from such a school would be worthless since they obviously toss out the scientific method on day 1 of classes.
All that is required for accreditation are establishing a curriculum and program as outlined by the accrediting organization. If you recall, just last year a "college" of astrology was accredited in, if I recall correctly, Flagstaff, Arizona.
I fear we'll soon be neck deep in a veritable plethora of "accredited" colleges handing out worthless degrees.
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a
deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." - Niccolo Machiavelli
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