Creationist to replace intelligent design proponent at seminary

[Ilsa]

Amazing. Some religions move forward, others digress.

http://wbir.com/news/regional/story.aspx?storyid=33581

Creationist to replace intelligent design proponent at seminary

A Tennessee professor who teaches the biblical version of creation will lead the Center for Theology and Science at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Kurt Wise, currently a professor at Bryan College in Dayton, is replacing William Dembski, a leading proponent of intelligent design theory, who left to take a teaching job closer to his Texas home.

Wise was also director of Bryan College's Center for Origins Research, which supports the "validity of the biblical account" of creation, according to its web site.

Wise holds degrees in philosophy and paleontology from Harvard University. He advocates a form of creationism that says God created the Earth relatively recently.

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[hatrack]

1. Good thing SBTS grads won't be teaching science . . .

Oh, wait, they will! It's just that it'll be half day classes once a week instead of five days a week.

None of those pesky "peer-review" standards, either!

:puke:

[niyad]

2. not that there is any difference between creationism and id.

[DanCa]

3. Intelligent Design is pure conservative dogma

It's just a trojan horse to get "prolife" theocracy taught in schools. It has very very little to do with the bible. Intelligent Design is to the bible as reganomics is to economics classes.

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. There's a powerhouse of learning.

"Center for Theology and Science," now, there's an oxymoron if I've ever heard it.

J

[electron_blue]

5. I don't see why this is a step backward

ID = creationism

[SPKrazy]

6. Hey, They Are Southern Baptists

at least they go to seminary after getting the "call"

most fundies don't seem to need formal education, they get the "call" and suddenly they are Bible experts, but the Baptists always go to seminary

now someone else said, at least they won't be teaching science.

I agree.

Baptists haven't been much on science, at least Southern Baptists.